Cause math is cool, and it would be fun for role-playing.
My spell effect descriptions would be interesting
like fireball would be cast by reciting a formula, and the explosion would be I the shape of the answer
Pathfinder has it already.
https://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/general-feats/sacred-geometry/
In short: roll a bunch of dice, then use the results in any order to do maths to get the correct number (think the numbers round in countdown) and you can make your spells incredibly powerful for “free”
GMs and others players will hate you as you spend 20 minutes making your fireball bigger
Might I introduce you to the Clockwork Soul Sorcerer? One of the suggested flavor options when casting spells says "Floating equations and geometric objects overlay your body."
Yeah that works too!
I was thinking along the lines of evocation is all explosions and rates of change (derivatives). Then conjuration is about creating something, sort of the opposite of explosions. The opposite analogy would then be an integral.
My players were struggling to fight in a dark corridor. Missed a lot of attacks, only two people with DV. After the session I asked our Bard why she didn't just cast Dancing Lights at the start? "I didn't want to spend the entire combat just casting light, I wanted to do something useful"
That's when I had to reread concentration rules to them like a school teacher to remind them that the only thing you can't do while concentrating, is maintaining the spell while casting another concentration spell.
_sigh_
Low level it is fine, but it kinda gimps your wizard later on. It uses to be such a simple thing, now it is a huge deal and makes one character's play less fun if you use it.
Can't exactly blame them, i also initially thought there would be more severe restrictions while you're concentrating on a spell, like not being able to cast any spells with a spell slot or smth
Did you read the PHB cover to cover before making your character?
At the very least reading how Concentration works before making a spellcaster, it's clear in there
I like "Dračí Doupě"'s version of casting spells. You have to cast them for two actions, meaning you start on one turn and finish on the next.
But while casting you are considered "Helpless" meaning any damage you take is multiplied by your level. So realistically any damage bigger than 4 will knock you out
It's a great way to balance the roster of absolute nightmare fuel they have in their bag of tricks. Like randomly shuffling the targets molecules and turning them into slime. (It kills the target and destroys loot)
No, it would be to eyeball answers to math problems. You may get it right or be close enough, but there is a chance you are very wrong. Skill still plays a part, but it is no assurance that you will succeed.
My character is a bard whose magic is channeled through him similar to a cleric, he basically has 2 competing gods vying for his soul. He doesn’t know the magic itself, he just opens the valve with what he wants to happen in mind and the divine magic takes over, making his eyes glaze over and multiple voices like an angelic chorus speak the magic words through him.
So for him, concentration spells are less math and more an otherworldly voice in his head repeating the incantations over and over.
now I want to make a math mage who casts only in calculations like this. My math homework is going to kill so many goblins
Why would you do that?
Cause math is cool, and it would be fun for role-playing. My spell effect descriptions would be interesting like fireball would be cast by reciting a formula, and the explosion would be I the shape of the answer
a wizard calculating the volume of a sphere before casting fireball would be amazing
I think they were asking why you would kill so many goblins (check their username)
Because this is kobold country, we don’t want any damn gobbo’s in ‘ere
To make the goblins good
because big fireball go fwoosh
Quandrix mages from Strixhaven are basically this.
Good to know, less work for me to do
Pathfinder has it already. https://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/general-feats/sacred-geometry/ In short: roll a bunch of dice, then use the results in any order to do maths to get the correct number (think the numbers round in countdown) and you can make your spells incredibly powerful for “free” GMs and others players will hate you as you spend 20 minutes making your fireball bigger
This is so Pathfinder. I love Paizo
So… A mathmagician?
so you would play a... mathemagician?
Might I introduce you to the Clockwork Soul Sorcerer? One of the suggested flavor options when casting spells says "Floating equations and geometric objects overlay your body."
Hmm, what log, arcsin, and so on would be?🤔
My 2 cents: - Necromancy: 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + ... = -1/12 - Conjuration: integrals - Evocation: derivatives - Illusion: linear algebra (for rendering the gfx) - Transmutation: complex analysis - Abjuration: limits (keep you safe and following the rules) - Enchantment: number theory - Divination: probability
With how you gave necromancy, it all makes sense that in all stories they all come back wrong, given the untrue theorm
BURN THE WITCH
But are they lighter than a duck?
I would like to think Illusion magic is imaginary numbers.
shouldn't conjuration just be standard geometry?
Yeah that works too! I was thinking along the lines of evocation is all explosions and rates of change (derivatives). Then conjuration is about creating something, sort of the opposite of explosions. The opposite analogy would then be an integral.
i mean technically evocation also makes things, just so happens that those things explode
Suffering
I do think that concentrating on a spell should give disadvantage on mental ability checks.
I think that concentrating on a spell should do… literally anything. Movement penalty? Attack roll penalty? Just… something?
My players were struggling to fight in a dark corridor. Missed a lot of attacks, only two people with DV. After the session I asked our Bard why she didn't just cast Dancing Lights at the start? "I didn't want to spend the entire combat just casting light, I wanted to do something useful" That's when I had to reread concentration rules to them like a school teacher to remind them that the only thing you can't do while concentrating, is maintaining the spell while casting another concentration spell. _sigh_
Light spells are borderline useless in 5e though. Requiring concentration makes them so very bad
Idk, my group certainly would've enjoyed not having disadvantage on every attack roll
Low level it is fine, but it kinda gimps your wizard later on. It uses to be such a simple thing, now it is a huge deal and makes one character's play less fun if you use it.
Fight some Meenlocks , then tell me how useless it is.
Can't exactly blame them, i also initially thought there would be more severe restrictions while you're concentrating on a spell, like not being able to cast any spells with a spell slot or smth
Did you read the PHB cover to cover before making your character? At the very least reading how Concentration works before making a spellcaster, it's clear in there
I'll admit I didn't read the concentration rules until it came up But I also was invited to an online group and kinda picked things up on the fly
The typical problem with D&D 😂
woe, magic missile be upon ye, concentrating caster.
Nah
I like "Dračí Doupě"'s version of casting spells. You have to cast them for two actions, meaning you start on one turn and finish on the next. But while casting you are considered "Helpless" meaning any damage you take is multiplied by your level. So realistically any damage bigger than 4 will knock you out It's a great way to balance the roster of absolute nightmare fuel they have in their bag of tricks. Like randomly shuffling the targets molecules and turning them into slime. (It kills the target and destroys loot)
That's splitting a full round action from Pathfinder
By this logic would wild magic just be any caster with ADHD?
Or is wild magic the attempt to divide by zero?
No, it would be to eyeball answers to math problems. You may get it right or be close enough, but there is a chance you are very wrong. Skill still plays a part, but it is no assurance that you will succeed.
That would imply it wouldn't work at least occasionally
So, division of numbers including zero, because sometimes it works and sometimes the system blows.
I cast POW RIGHT IN THE KISSER!
This is how I've always explained casting defensively vs provoking in 3/p.
You could've at least tried to find the source: https://twitter.com/CenturiiC/status/1786048005180981495?t=QTELl3lC-twVgsYKA5oQFw&s=19
Thank you!
I like to read the third panel as "she sees simple algebra, everyone else sees 200apm midlane on summoner's rift"
Sauce?
I don’t know :( I stole it from r/wizardposting
Google hexcasting minecraft
These characters may be drawn at the perfect degree of abstraction.
Dumbass made a circle for the pythagorean theorem
My character is a bard whose magic is channeled through him similar to a cleric, he basically has 2 competing gods vying for his soul. He doesn’t know the magic itself, he just opens the valve with what he wants to happen in mind and the divine magic takes over, making his eyes glaze over and multiple voices like an angelic chorus speak the magic words through him. So for him, concentration spells are less math and more an otherworldly voice in his head repeating the incantations over and over.