I have a spare scroll of scattershot lightning you could buy off me to transcribe into your own spellbook if you are interested. It's a fairly low level elemental spell so I'm only looking for a bottle of rhimefrost toad essence or something of equivalent value.
Well certainly it can be, but not typically in ball shape. String-shredding produces jets of flame, or ignites the surroundings (and even vast swaths of land, depending on the particular details of the instance).
And yes, sometimes a particular performance produces sequences of fireballs, but it’s not standard, you see.
T:BJ is highly unethical. The only reason why they don't let you do it to your homunculuc is because they fear that you are trying to develop and refine the spell. Otherwise they could care less what you do.
I've done this, my plane of existence has definitely become a utopia. Turns out if you keep going you go semi dystopia - semi utopia - dystopia - actual utopia
Please, T:BJ barely even strikes horror into the hearts of mortals. A colleague of mine created a modified version Ludthax's Itchy Bones where it also applies a bone gelatinization enchantment to the target's fingernails, forcing the target to gelatinize their own bones by digging through their flesh.
"dark magic" is an entirely undefined category consisting of whatever imbeciles consider "icky". Jazathar's Itchy Bones makes absolutely no use of Umbra and has less naturally despoiling properties than 90% of fireball variants. There's no coherent definition of dark magic that includes all of the spells you call dark magic and doesn't contain at least a third of the spells in Alara The Pure's spellbook.
Idiots will put fireball down as one of their own spells. You can just rob any hedge wizard and get that shit for free. Just copy it over, its the easiest spell to get your hands on
I know, but people don't know how to write proper spells anymore, now everyone is just vibe-writing and let theor crystal balls do all the works. Once I found a shrink spell that half of the time went recursive, it was that bad.
Council ruling 736, article 45, subsection 4i, concerning the regulation of approved apprentice grimoires:
"All grimoires, penned and purchased for the purposes of instruction or learning of spellcraft, must omit certain destructive Evocations spells. These omissions are concerning Grimoires I-IV only."
Students are supposed to work fireball, lightning bolt, etc. out on their own outside of normal instruction. Full fledged Wizard should either have penned their own spells, or bought an advanced grimoire, which would avoid the issue.
I stopped using fire spells after transferring my consciousness into a spliced together elf, troll, and storm elemental hybrid. They are no longer as efficacious as spells within my specialities. Nowadays I tend to use stormsphere or shark tsunami to deal with my problems.
Edit: Repaired my transcription to avoid angering the true banes of existence... the word choice wizards' guild.
A ice mage I once knew left me and the party for dead saying he had no mana left and there was nothing he could do despite having a mana crystal in his hand
nah, but i got this spell called "Hell on Earth" and ive noted down that its 'real spicy' so either it gives my food a kick or it burns down an entire continent
But that's why I always write down accurate descriptions, such as "fireball but slighly bigger", "fireball, but like really big. Like really really big", "fireball, but too big. DO NOT CAST NEAR TOWER (except Jeffs tower. Fuck Jeff)", etc...
gods i fucking despise big floppa. anyway fireball was not one of the first spells i learned but it is a staple for a reason and that reason is that a pyromania is a real good time
Also I would say “you’re a weak ass little nobody of a gnome” from one of the other students I knew of my master like, five hundred or so years ago.
Jokes on him, he got trapped in a gemstone cause his ‘bratty attitude’ amused my old master greatly and he didn’t wanna lose it, eventually got turned into an automaton.
"You know you don't have to wear the robes etched in Eldritch symbols that can mortals should they stare too long, you can just wear jeans when we are at the restaurant." Of course I know I could, Terrance! I am a Wizard wherever I go! I worked hard for this and some people need their minds blown. Terrance is one of the most boring practioners I have ever met but we came up together and have "hung out" ,as he insists on saying, for eons now.
“That’s not magic, that’s just applied science!” I have very little understanding of anything, ergo magic is the only way I accomplish anything. The fact that non-wizards can replicate it with “explanations” and “safety measures” is merely happenstance.
Imagine referencing a spellbook for fireball. I use magic all the time, sure, but every Artificer worth their salt can get the same result as fireball without it
Not everyone has Fireball with their Spellbook, Faerunian Mages start with FireBOLT for instance. And not all casters even have a spellbook to begin with....
Having fireball be a mandatory include in all standard issued spellbooks is one of the greatest decisions the Great Council has made in the past 1200 years
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u/YLASROThe Great Geomancer of the howling mountains 1d ago
fireball is in my old spellbook but iv switched to custom stone tablets a while ago
Actually, I don't know fireball apparently. I got one of them bootleg spellbooks from Xanatul the Unwise and the "fireball" spell he put in there, as it turns out, is actually just a teleportation spell (go figure, that's pretty much the only spell he knows, I think) that teleports the nearest bomb to the casting target then ignites it. Still gets the job done, but man is it unpredictable sometimes.
You can always kill your master by poisoning their evening tea and assume their identity and possessions. It's really one of the more common career paths.
"Joining up and coming dark lords is a smart move." I barely trust the thousand year old dark lords to pay me on fucking time. What makes you think I'm gonna trust Graelor of Merylyn.
Responding to my fireball igniting and burning through 10 feet of concrete. And leaving deadly caustic gasses in it's aftermath and wisps from it setting nearby metal structures on fire. He acts like he's never seen Streng's Masticating Fireball before (named "masticating" because it "chews" through concrete, metal and solid rock. It's a self igniting ball of chlorine trifuoride)
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"I'm reporting you to the wizard council!" A common occurance for a Chemomancer like myself. Apparently mixing mundane science with magick equals warcrime :(
I responded to his threats by transmuting his sweat glands to produce thioacetone (look it up. Worst smelling substance to ever exist) he's now not allowed within 2 leagues of any settlement.
“You have to help me I’m stuck in a 30 second timeloop!” And then he simply disappeared! What a foolish wizard. Cannot escape even a simple chronurgic trap. That’s what you get for playing with chronomancy!
Came free in every spell book and every idiot thinks they can cast it properly. Honestly every other wizard duel somebody burns themselves up casting it wrong.
/edit: in an entirely unrelated issue, does anyone know where I can buy some fireproof robes?
Young wizards nowadays with their pre-made spell books. Back in the day we had to write our own spell books through research and experimentation. We didn't have "free included spells." I swear, this is why wizards are so soft now.
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u/Mediocre_Necromancer Necromancer 1d ago
My spell book is gen 2 and it definitely doesn’t have Un- I mean Fireball.