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Thread: "Random Numbers" Wizard
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2015-03-26, 11:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2014
"Random Numbers" Wizard
Silly request here:
My buddy wants to play a wizard that just rolls random dice for his moves and has enemies doing the same.
So far we have:
Bag of Tricks
Rod of Wonder
Confusion spell
Bestow Curse spell
Can any Playgrounders help us out?
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2015-03-27, 12:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2014
Re: "Random Numbers" Wizard
Make sure you enter Wildmage. It gives lots of neat abilities regarding random magic. Also, a deck of many things that he convinces enemies to draw from.
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2015-03-27, 01:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2012
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- UK
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Re: "Random Numbers" Wizard
A lot depends on how much you want it to be random.
E.g. consider the spell defenestrating sphere (Spell Compendium). Yes you have to get through an attack and a saving throw to get to the random bit, but then both distance and direction (unless there is a window about) are randomly generated.
Also if you like confusion don't forget lesser confusion.
Edit: Also plane shift should be his go-to travel spell, but consider teleport using false destinations...Last edited by Khedrac; 2015-03-27 at 01:54 AM.
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2015-03-27, 02:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2009
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- Flanhk-Marepork
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Re: "Random Numbers" Wizard
Prismatic Spray, and Prismatic Eye and Prismatic Ray all have a random component.
From memory there is also a Prismatic Bow spell (either Complete Mage or PHBII).
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2015-03-27, 10:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2014
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2015-03-27, 11:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2013
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Re: "Random Numbers" Wizard
Could be kind of gishy and take the Chaos Devotion feat, letting the roll determine if he wanted to melee or cast each round(I think odds are bonus to attack and evens are bonuses to Armor Class). Sounds like a horrible idea to me, but I suppose if could be interesting....
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2015-03-27, 11:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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2015-03-27, 01:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2012
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2015-03-27, 02:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2013
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Re: "Random Numbers" Wizard
There was actually an April Fool's Day article about drinking multiple potions and having them mix in horrible horrible ways. It was an homage to the earlier editions when such a thing was possible.
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2015-03-27, 03:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2007
Re: "Random Numbers" Wizard
If I were to have this player wish to do this particular thing, I would have to houserule in some special stuff just for him.
Wild Mage originated in 2nd Ed Tome of Magic, and I would have to modify that and roll it into 3.5. I believe you can make this modification to any 3.5 caster as it's fairly balanced and does not actually seem to increase net power overall
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2015-03-27, 03:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2014
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- Arcadia
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