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CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
Lipstick Apathy
Am I an evil wizard? Maybe.

Is keeping The Law evil? Maybe.

But The Law is that which protects us from the Things Below, and I am it's Keeper. I was born of wind and farts and brimstone and slime, and I alone hold Them back from devouring you ungrateful bitches.

So anyway I made a new spell that will flay your throat if you pass on the right on the shoulder of the road, good luck with that.

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CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
Lipstick Apathy
You could always multiclass.

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
Lipstick Apathy

Mycroft Holmes posted:

as a paladin i object to this thread

evil wizards are bad and should be punished

Keep the law.

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
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Speleothing posted:

I'm definitely evil, but never sure if my powers are wizardry, psionics, or from a dark god.


What's the best way to check?

If your powers are from a dark god, I think that makes you a warlock.

If you have to read spells from a grimoire, you are a wizard.

If your powers are just sort of loosey-goosey, you may be either a psionic or a sorcerer. Elemental effects such as fire, ice, etc. means probably means sorcerer, while telekinetic flaying, etc, probably is a psionic.

These are THE LAWS, and you must follow THE LAWS or I will cast a spell that will rend and flay and cleave your soul into a million tiny pierces and make, I don't know, lampshades out of the bits.

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
Lipstick Apathy
Some of you may ask, why so many infractions are repaid by throat-flaying. That's okay, it's good to know where the limits of The Laws are, so long as you follow The Laws. They must be obeyed.

The Laws are there for your own good, and without The Laws the truly chaotic (the Things Below would do whatever they wanted to your throats and butts, and I'm sure we can all agree that potential throat-flaying is better than the things they have planned.

Those that cruise through your neighborhood late at night with the bass turned way up on their poorly modified "tuner" cars have rewarded the rest of you with more Laws. Feel free to thank them in private.

Also, be sure to thank a skeleton for their service.

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
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I'm sorry, is your wizard lady friend against armored skeletons or the concept of magically animate me armor itself? Because skeletons in some nice armor (maybe with a visored helmet) would be a nice compromise and show you are willing to listen and work with her.

If she only likes loincloth skeletons then I'm afraid that's problematic. Skeleton cheesecake being required makes for a hostile work environment and that is against The Laws.

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
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Speleothing posted:

We've got some armored skeletons and some loincloth skeletons. She didn't like the green spirit fire that bound the armor together, and all I could say is "honey, that's just what they look like" and she made me put the test model into the lowest crypt to guard the holiday decorations.


I guess I'll just save some more and upgrade all the skeles into nicer gear.

You may want to see about getting an evil illusionist to do something about the spirit fire.

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
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Motherfucker posted:

Hi, recently I pledged my service to the eldar gods, specifically cthylla daughter of cthulhu (its 2016, ok) but the problem is the pulsing vein-like slug growing under my eyesocket is not only making it hard for me to pick up chicks but also I'm starting to hear screams and see stuff that I'm pretty sure my mind wasn't supposed to comprehend, its starting to cut into my social life and plus I've started hucking up fistfulls of maggots with human faces who demand I find them hosts in a demented chorus of voices. How do I keep it 'real' I guess is what I'm asking? haha

Just keep The Rules and you will be fine, fool.

Everyone, just Keep The Rules and we can all go about our respective evil wizard businesses.

I've taken the liberty of inscribing The Rules on everyone's eyelids, there's only a handful of them and they're mostly about courteous driving techniques and social justice. Basic stuff, really, but they must be maintained at all costs or we're all gonna have to get used to non-Euclidean geometry when the Seals are broken and frankly I can't deal with that poo poo like I used to, I have a very sensitive stomach.

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
Lipstick Apathy

Zartosht posted:

lol, honestly you lawful types can suck an elder cock, all the other councilors totally knew Aatrekon was "summoning" underage nymphs.

The Laws are all that stand between you and eternal non-Euclidean vomiting, maggot.

Keep them. Do what you will otherwise, but keep The Laws.

Catpants McStabby posted:

Honestly, I'm going to have to look at your THAC0 before we do any seriously discussion.

Serious question? What if you are a punch or muscle wizard?

Atma posted:

i feel very safe in my black tower where i sit around and cast spells all day.

i have enough food to last forever and i locked the front door so no one can catch me unawares.

i put the key to the door inside one of my skeletons who is a slightly different color and slightly stronger than the rest.

i put him on the trail leading up to my black tower in case i ever accidentally lock myself out.

This is a good plan.

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
Lipstick Apathy
Well, as far as I can see here, The Laws are being kept for the most part and I would just like to congratulate all of you guys on retaining a Euclidean geometric state. Good job. Please continue doing your own respective things.

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
Lipstick Apathy

Mad Hamish posted:

Yo, so I tried this and it makes the entrance of my tower on Mt. Bloodbone look pretty badass, thanks wizgoon.

Some heroes decided to come by and instead of immediately assuming I was an evil sorcerer they saw the eldritch crystals and somehow thought I was sort of benign. I guess maybe glowing blue crystals are some sort of Elf thing? Anyway, they weren't prepared for that spell, you know the one that turns their bones into writhing worms of molten iron? That one.

Now I have a good-looking foyer and I was able to re-purpose those jackasses' skulls for a new set of wine glasses.

I hope you were able to get some classy skullgoblets from all those writhing molten iron worms. That spell is a bit tricky to control once you start it; it's a great fire and forget spell, for sure but it's artistic possibilities are somewhat limited.

Fudge Handsome posted:

Blue is a good colour for lights in your dread demesne because blue light inhibits melatonin production, which is a natural hormone produced in the brain that regulates the sleep cycle. If any foolish adventurers dare to make camp within your nightmare realm, they'll have a hell of a time getting to sleep and won't feel rested in the morning, making them easy prey for your fell sorceries. If you're concerned about the health of any of your still-living apprentices, minions, mooks, or cultists, then I recommend green or red light. That being said, why would you even have still-living minions?

Dude, are you in evil high school or something? There's plenty of reasons to keep your minions alive. One reason is to casually show your mastery of life and death to intruders/guests. Another is that living minions are in many ways more gross or horrific than skeletons or animated armors or even a zombie.

Stay in school, Keep The Laws*, Golyhothort Bless.

*KEEP THE LAWS! KEEP THEM OR FACE NON-EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY!

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
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Nathilus posted:

Uhhh but thats good? Well you know what I mean. *walks around an invisible corner and vanishes*

To be able to flout Euclidean geometry, it must first be extant and maintained by The Laws. How can you do cool poo poo like that on purpose without an underlying, ordered, structure that non-wizards have to deal with like chumps? The whole reason I became a wizard was to gently caress with normies, honestly. The whole "keeping The Laws" thing is just something everyone has to put up with to enjoy unrestrained magical normie-loving. I mean, I hate being That Guy but I'm never not gonna gently caress with those normie assholes and their meddling do-goodery.

KEEP THE LAWS.

Catpants McStabby posted:

You've got 1d4 hp per level, not bloody likely.

Punch and muscle wizards get different hit die, though. They make good use of that d12, unlike loving barbarians.

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
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SciFiDownBeat posted:

trying to conjure a fun new character for my undead army to boost morale. Mr. Bones he's called, he's supposed to wear a top hat and use a cane and speak in a 1920s New York accent and do musical numbers on cue. But I'm having a hell of a time getting the drat hat to stay on his head, it just keeps slipping off. I've tried a freeze spell, eldertree sap, an attachment rune, and gorilla glue, but nothing works. I'm almost positive it's cursed but for the life of me I can't remember who or where I bought it from. I'll probably just take a trip to the underworld and get a cheap plastic hat from wailmart or something

Mr. Bones should be able to doff his chapeau if he encounters a lady adventurer. Before the dismemberment or whatever it is you want him to do to intruders.

Ask him how he feels. Maybe he can learn to hold it or balance it.

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
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have you seen my baby posted:

Whoo! Almost found all the regents I need to build this phylactery. See ya later, mortality!

Make sure you put it someplace inconvenient, like a chandelier.

naem posted:

Why fight their physical powers when you can corrupt their minds? Offer them powerful magical objects (that you control) to give them delusions of grandeur. Lawful Good wizards can easily be corrupted with power as they seek to control all to make it "lawful" and the love of power makes them them Lawful Evil.

Then because you are chaotic evil (and not bound by laws) threaten to strip them of their power (your magic items) unless they sign an employment contract (signed in blood of course, offer good 401k and flex time they can't resist)

You are bound by some laws, The Laws. Mondain's Tits, you guys, even Chaotic Evil wizards need to follow a couple laws like not passing on the right or the shoulder.

SciFiDownBeat posted:

What, are you nuts? This guy isn't going out to battle. Worst case scenario I'll have him play the lovable chaotic neutral and charm heroes to lead them straight to one of the myriad of traps I have set up. But during off hours the boys need something to entertain them besides undead fight club and skeleton porn.

And just tell me how he's going to hold his hat on his head, and operate a gramophone, and do slapstick comedy, AND constantly dance the Charleston all at once??? He can only do three of those things simultaneously, I'll tell you right now.

Okay... make the hat only slightly larger than his head, and it should fit snugly unless he's doing too many cartwheels or whatever.

basic hitler posted:

The problem with reality bending is there is associated time dilation you have to counteract with spells. A large space occupying a small space causes time to speed up rapidly inside it relative to the rest of the world. Its easy enough to create the space but its rather difficult to not emerge from it after the heat death of the universe. Spells concerning time are where yiu get into major trouble

That's why you have to do it on a small scale, do you can control it. It's tricky to get the balance right but honestly if you're following The Laws you should be a lich by now and have nothing but time on your hands to do it right.

the pizza police posted:

Does anybody have any simple methods of messing with the world's geometry on like a small scale? And don't give me any of that keep the law bullshit because I'm legit the smartest evil wizard in my class and I'm more than capable of keeping a small reality-bending experiment under control in my mother's cellar thank you very much.

It might help us if you told us the specifics of this "experiment."

Anyway, small scale reality warping is actually one of The Law's many benefits, because a tidy Euclidean workspace is so much easier to modify to your liking and snap back to normal when you're done or tired of paying the upkeep costs (they eventually multiply exponentially, so if you've not set up some kind of pocket universe with unchecked humanoid growth for sacrifices it can quickly become unsustainable) and that's usually the thing that unleashes The Things Below, which are a real pain in the wizard sack to get back to sleep.

Anyway, let us know how it turns out.

(Keep The Laws.)

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
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basic hitler posted:

I hate skeletons. Ive noticed they have something like memory in their bones. I used to harvest the flesh for reagents, boil and reanimate the bones of fallen intruders. Now i just make bone dust. Like, last week was the last straw. I went to check on my gold hoard and my skeleton servitors were just standing, staring at the gold and touching their pelvises. These loving skeletons were remembering having sex on wizard gold when they were alive. Their bone memories are creepy. I could understand recognizing a sword or a trinket from a loved one but id say 75% of all adventurer skeletons just get horny at the sight of a gold hoard.

gently caress skeletons and their bone memory.

That's pretty hosed up, man.

That's pretty hosed up.

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
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key party favors posted:

hey guys, looking for the 23 Dark Librams of Occultic Mathmagic (ORIGINAL EDITIONS ONLY, PLEASE) to operate this Loom of Darkness I found in one of my towers. Will trade Crystal of Temporal Hatred, or Hobgoblin growvats, that I no longer have a use for. Serious inquiries Only.

Can the Crystal be modified for Eternal Hatred purposes? I know, Temporal Hatred is almost as good as Eternal Hatred but I kind of need to be sure of things for... reasons.

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
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basic hitler posted:

I know we're evil but personally i do what i can to keep the local townsfolk happy or at least placated. Yeah some one goes missing a few times a year. Errant adventurers sometimes wander into the local tavern and have a few too many and end up in my keep, and they are used nefariously but mostly i keep my experiments focused on other towns. Sure it means i travel a lot but i find that hostile locals from being flamboyantly evil are a bigger pain than just keeping a reasonably low profile and doing my dastardly deeds elsewhere. This also lets me feel out for weaker wizards to pounce on. I have a few wizards ive made onto thralls. I usually sell their property, confiscate reactive materials and reagents, abd put them up in a thrall dungeon where they toil and make reagents. Its a good system

It's best to not be a cartoonishly evil wizard, it's true.

Archenteron posted:

I'm more of an rear end in a top hat Thaumaturgist. When someone annoys me, I made the soles of their shoes fall out. Hope that's ok :shobon:

Yes it's fine. Everything is permitted... so long as you Keep The Laws.

the pizza police posted:

be careful with this because once you get on the bad side of the Occult Safety & Health inspectors they start scheduling their audits on blood moons and suddenly you're looking at another 13 years of boooooooooring

Keep The Laws and OSHA inspectors will give you a free pass, mostly. They're all about The Laws.

key party favors posted:

You forget to pay the shadow tax on ONE eldritch horror, and they're on your butt. Here's a good tip though... get a dragon (like the skeleton of one, or a lesser wyrm...definitely don't mess with the fully grown ones...so annoying, with their 'true tongue' and 'lies'), then claim all your wizard gold and jewels as 'nesting materials' on your occult tax return.

The Law has many Loopholes. It's not evil to take advantage of them, but it is evil to not petition for their closing. So... there you go I guess.

key party favors posted:

Anyway, whoever has my copy of THE LITANIES OF THE SUNKEN STARS, I want it back. I'm getting salty over here.

My bad. I was making some notes, no one answered when I asked (into a portable hole connected to The Abyss) if anyone didn't want me to take it from your library. The Law requires attempting to get ritual permission but it doesn't exactly spell out how... anyway there may be some residual dark silverflame notation where I improved some things and took some notes, no big deal. They only show up in natural light, they don't show up under bone tallow candlelight or eldritch flames, you'll never even notice.

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
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ghosthorse posted:

So I was working on a potion for....personal use...and anyway I dropped the dang thing and it spilled so my question is who did you contract to mess up your tower? Cos now mine's like perfectly straight and taller and all the wobble and twists are gone and it just looks like a nice ordinary castle tower again. At least I know that potion probably works.

It's probably been more than four hours, hasn't it?

You need to call a Stone Shaper, like, right now if you want to prevent lasting damage to your tower.

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
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They've got to do something super bad more personably meaningful than killing their family, obviously, and have to do it on their own.

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
Lipstick Apathy
Well, an undead blackguard has certain benefits. All sorts of disease and poison applications, and regeneration should be hardly a problem.

You're going to have to make the reanimated blackguard, body choose a new god better suited to your purposes, and you're going to have to do it quickly before his soul passes The Trials. He's a paladin, so it will be pretty easy on him, but these things take time so you have a chance. Souls do not remember the afterlife if they are recalled quickly enough.

Knowing The Laws means you know exactly how far you can push things, push the fabric of reality to your whims without a total systemic collapse. I know I sound pretty lame and repetitive sometimes, but this is really advanced wisdom I'm giving away for free, you know how a billionaire is like "I did X and Y to make my fortune!" and you're like "yeah, buddy, those super obvious things sure did make you a billionaire, plus the million your daddy gave you" and I am the advice and magic is your daddy in this metaphor.

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
Lipstick Apathy
And after that... loving and sucking.

EDIT: Need to get some of my secret names changed just in case.

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
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Krunge posted:

Do any of you know how to get rid of a unending hunger curse? I was doing it with a hot witch and I refused to go down on her, so she cursed me and now there's a risk that I'm going to transform myself into a star eating eldritch horror just to sate my hunger. Witches, am I right?

You're going to have to eat her pussy till she's satisfied, sorry. That's how those Disneyfied curses usually work.

sweet geek swag posted:

Dude, you knew I needed it back to summon a Darkmoon vampire by the last new moon when I loaned it to you. Luckily for you these paladins had like six of them in their 'forbidden library' down here in the undercrypts otherwise my undead army would be knocking on your door.

Speaking of which it is going to take ages to inventory all the dark equipment these guys had. They had an eldritch abomination here sealed behind holy force fields. I know what you're thinking, yes they should have used transdimensional force fields. They were like a decade out from this little guy burrowing into the dark realms below and ushering in a new age of madness and terror. Paladins think holy power is the answer to everything. I swear I saw one try to use holy power on a tardy school kid once.

So I'm thinking that before the paladins took over there was some sort of doomsday cult here. I'm thinking of secretly starting it back up, using the cathedral as a cover. Then I'll convert this undercrypt into a lab space, and I'll finally be able to turn that old lab in my tower into my gameday room. Get a big TV, a nice couch just I'm time for the playoffs.

Mote like Lawful Stupid, am I right? Keep us posted, this sounds delightful.

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
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Getting a demon to cooperate is tenuous at best. Now, a devil...

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
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jon joe posted:

I'm casting necromancy on this thread.

Well, that is something an evil wizard would certainly do; excellent.

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
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key party favors posted:

Hey fellow Evil Wizards... does anyone know any incantations, invocations, or hexes to get a good parking spot in an urban core? Dark Magic, Blood Magic, and Demon Magic are ok, because there's no such thing as right or wrong. Please advise. I will trade you the spell for a batch of enthralled goblins. (Note: They're swamp goblins.)

You cannot circumvent The Laws, you must Keep them.

Keep The Laws.

You may want to consider outsourcing your urban needs to the Guild of Assassins and Thieves, they may be able to help you out.

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
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basic hitler posted:

i dont know why you keep saying that i've broken the laws no less than six times, as has been convenient for me.

I am not saying you have broken The Laws, they are different for evil wizards such as ourselves. Knowing and Keeping the Laws is a shortcut for quick power gains.

(Keep the Laws)

Rutibex posted:

im chaotic evil, lawful evil is for losers

When a loving barbarian is able to defeat your laughably halfassed evil schemes, you will change your tune.

Hobelhouse posted:

Hey thread, need some help here. I've been considering going evil ever since I was accepted to magical school, but I'm having a hard time deciding on a major. I've been mostly taking classes in Hexing but lately I've felt a really strong draw to necromancy since it seems win win: kill an enemy, get a skeleton. Only problem is that the extra credits would keep me from taking any more courses in Dark Artificing, and I've always wanted to make a black amulet to store the soul of my nemesis in. Any necromantiphiliacs out there who can give me the inside scoop on if the lifestyle is all it's cracked up to be? How's your work/unlife balance?

The market is oversaturated with necromancers at this point. Dark Artifice is an emerging market.

ghosthorse posted:

The draw back to dark artificing in general is that you have to move shops every time you sell an item, immediately after they leave your store. That kind of address hopping can play hell on maintaining a business license. Have you considered interning for an established necromancer to get a feel for it?

Sure, necromancers say they will offer you a work-to-hire contract, but the odds are you will just become a skeleton before they remember to offer you full time employment.

Cobweb Heart posted:

I don't suppose any of you would have the whim to help a wizard? I commissioned a portrait of my fellow dark sorceror, Black Gandalf, and unfortunately no longer remember the name of the artist or the painting. All my scrying, locating, memory-charm spells are uhhhh out of charge, can't find the plug thing. Anyway it's a painting of a wizard with a frosty can of beer, he's sitting at a modern table (not marble) and looking at you, all, "Have a cold one, man, let's shoot the poo poo about mandrakes." Thanks in advance.

This wizbro here?



VendaGoat posted:

My gelatinous cube just mitosed everywhere. Anyone want a few cubies?

Great for keeping your dungeons clean! Works better then scrubbing bubbles!

I'll take one. Please fax it to DarkWizard846@earthlinlk.com.

naem posted:

The real problem with artificing is it's just so profitable.

I mean at first it's all "battling over meteoric iron ore" and "infusing it with the the blood of virgin princess souls to enthrall the will of men" but after you forge and sell your tenth million-gold-piece-horcrux you look around your treasure hall and the endless piles of gold coins and you're like, 'should all my funds be in commodities?' So you diversify and then you're reluctant to summon the ancient ones to destroy all life (because the the effects on the stock market) and pretty soon you're a lawful-neutral hedge-fund sorcerer with a jewelry hobby

If you have more money? You should be greedier and more evil. You're doing it wrong.

basic hitler posted:

nox is better than diablo 2

What are you even talking about?

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
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I found the required picture, nothing more, nothing less.

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
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Bust Rodd posted:

Guys, let's talk Enurgumen! Like when I'm trying to anchor an embodiment of horror into the Material Plane, I go for ripped elves.

A) They have enough skin real estate that you can fit pretty much the perfect amount of bonding runes

B) their skin burns like blue or green depending on magical saturation levels so your Aenima always looks it's spookiest

C) likewise the pointy ears...

Also small enough that getting armor made for them isn't so bad

I think you've found The Only Good Use For An Elf, dude. Way to go! :)

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
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So, a Milf's Acid Arrow, huh?

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

My incredible goodposting transcends time and space but still it cannot transform the xbone into a good console.
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Rutibex posted:

wouldnt a rib bone be curved?

How is that not like an erect wiener?

Colonel Cancer posted:

So I've made up my phylactery - ripped out orphan hearts, tears of angels, those pointy lego pieces, you know the whole jazz - and now I can't help it but wonder... If my undead body is slain, is it truly me that will rise up? If I die on the sword of some do-gooder paladin, another lich just like me will return to terrify the living but it won't be me.

mycomancy posted:

Well, if you do nothing, then when you do meet your end you'll be nothing, just a memory in the minds of your enemies until they die. Better take the chance with the lich route than the guarantee of oblivion.

TL;DR: live forever or die trying.

Look at this wizard who doesn't believe in Souls. What a Melf, amirite?

Of course you have a soul. It's what's dragged screaming to a hell plane when your wheeling and dealing with devils for infernal power catches up with you. Which it never should, if you're halfway competent and Keep The Laws.

I mean, doy.

CAPT. Rainbowbeard fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Feb 21, 2017

CAPT. Rainbowbeard
Apr 5, 2012

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fyodor posted:

Wyld Stallyns

Wyld Stallyns rule.

I like their hot summer jam "Keep The Laws."

Rutibex posted:

dont listen to this guy, paladins never pay up after you do their "quests". smells like a trap

It's a trap, but not because a paladin will break his (or her, let's be fair) word. It's a trap because they don't expect you to succeed.

ChaseSP posted:

The only contract you should ever sign and believe in is one signed in both participant's blood as well as read over by a demon lawyer. (If you don't have one on hold you're a moron hope that helps) if either breaks it they get eternally damned and of course you already are so it's no risk.

Devil lawyer. You want a devil lawyer, not a demon. Demon writs are always being overturned, devil ones are rock solid and cannot be broken, the Laws forbid it and therefore Euclidean geometry demand all parties keep the terms of the contract or annihilate themselves.

Yes, even, nay, especially phylacteries (or "horcruxes" if you're a pre-teen lich) are subject to Euclidean geometry.

Colonel Cancer posted:

Don't trust a demon lawyer. Contact a devil for all your legal needs, today.

EDIT: gently caress, BEATEN. :tipshat:

ChaseSP posted:

Look it sounds like a great idea but then when you go to do so the fuckers have made the contract so secure you can't even make yourself want to actually break it. Don't trust a neutral lawful people.

E: I mean the whole point of making a contract is to trick people into doing stuff for you while you then refuse to pay them. Evil 101 people.

Yes, The Laws. Keep them. It's fun. It's fun to Enforce The Laws.

Schwza posted:

Lol at you nerds burying your noses in old books for decades to find something to get back at the world because you couldn't get laid.

Being evil means your enemies bowels rupture when they hear your war horn. It means cleaving demigods in half with your mighty great sword as your horde of barbarians desecrate their lands and temples. It means ordering the destruction of your most adoring servants by their own hands. Have you ever even seen a self immolation? Being evil is a way of life, not some hobby you do in your three story walk-up tower while you jerk your wand.

Stop trying to summon an eldritch terror And BE that terror.

I like this guy. I'm interested to see where this goes. I mean, we'll see.

Rutibex posted:

more swords = more wars = more skeletons

let the mortals do the work for you

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VendaGoat posted:

Who wants to get in with me on the ground floor of my new business idea?

Succubus brothel.

I just need someone to split the cost on "Blood of the innocent." For all of the summoning. I've already got a few locations and a few beefy Tanar'ris for bouncers.

A good succubus can keep its preycustomers alive indefinitely. Good as in, good at their job, obviously.

I'm in.

The good thing about Keeping The Laws and not running roughshod over all the stupid peasants is that there are plenty to go around and no one misses them if a couple mysteriously go missing. Nobody suspects the "true neutral" wizard...

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GenericOverusedName posted:

Help my corners are all wrong!

I think I hosed up the sigil in the last ritual I did. It failed, I thought. But maybe I did summon something but it's hiding in the corners are wrong and the lights aren't casting shadows on anything the right way anymore

I warned you about The Laws, bro!

I told you, dog!

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key party favors posted:

The ol' 50 year stand in the corner and weeping to summon an extra planar gloomphage ritual... classic prank..

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Magic is cool and good.

(Keep The Laws.)

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naem posted:

breaks the laws

Do you even know what The Laws are? I'm not talking about laws for some kind of dummy no-maj.

Come on my dude. Be real.

If any of you Break The Laws, I'm not going to do poo poo but laugh at the everlasting torment you've brought upon yourself by ignoring basic safety precautions.

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key party favors posted:

those are more 'guidelines'. If you're telling me I CAN'T draw upon the Dark Magicks from 28th Liminal Plane of The Elder Archetypon of Sorrow you might as well turn in your Evil Wizard Mantle. Everyone knows it's an Evil Wizard's job is to break the boundaries of ethereal law, sure... a few of our colleagues might accidentally unleash devastating horror, or get devoured by books... but we can't just keep relying on skeleton armies. You gotta think outside the scrying orb, man. Smoke some nightgrass, have a bit of moonwine, and disentwine the fabric of fate. That's why we all got in this business in the first place.

No, those things are totally permitted. Look at this guy. He doesn't even know what The Laws are! Capital T, Capital L, The Laws are the framework of unreality that allows magic to even be a thing. Amassing hideous eldritch power is totally encouraged.

If you don't know by now, my telling you won't help any, I guess.

Rutibex posted:

no need for warnings. let them gently caress up, more mana to go around for everyone else

You're right, but one of the ways I derive my power is vague warnings about Keeping The Laws. It's more for me and my smug sense of self-satisfaction than for anything else. It's truly amazing what you can power if you know you're always right.

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fleshy echidna posted:

Hey guys I have a real problem. I used to be a death wizard who was prolonging his life through the use of a necromantic amulet, but just yesterday I accidentally mixed dragon's blood with ooze acid and well I've just darn near melted my whole body off. Does this mean I'm a lich now? I've always considered "boning up" but now I seriously have to face the consequences of this action and I'm worried that my A.D.W.A membership might be revoked. Any advice for what to do after an accidental lichification?

You'll know if you're a lich, my dude. There won't be any question about it. Grow or steal some new flesh, whatever makes you the most comfortable in your own skin.

Keep The Laws

Socks4Hands posted:

Is a Sorceror an evil wizard by definition who's also willing to work with forces from which an evil wizard would tuck tail and run?

naem posted:

Sorcerers use CHA instead of INT for their base mana points (I call them CHAd's)

It's okay to ask questions, new friend.

fleshy echidna posted:

Thanks for the advice and support guys, now that I've basically got the tedious part over of removing most of my organs I think I'm gonna man up and find me the eyes of some innocent intelligent creature to use as the catalyst for a proper phylactery of glass and flesh.

Hopefully I can find a wise eagle or some other goody two shoes quest giver/ last minute bullshit rescuer to make this work. Will post results later!

Good to see you're on the right track.

Socks4Hands posted:

I did some thinking, and it seems like the "evil" part of magic stems from the objections of others towards a practitioner exercising their Will upon the world with such (seeming) ease. It seems to boil down to an Order vs Chaos dynamic, and using magic to enforce Order against the wills of others (instead of just staying in lane and enforcing order upon their own PERSONAL lives), is the true evil.

You're so close!

naem posted:

*muscle wizard casts HIGH PROTEIN DIET FART*

That's a powerful spell, make sure you can cast it safely before you start slinging it constantly... and you will be slinging it constantly once you find how effective it is. Good synergies with skeletons and other magically animated minions, they're immune to poisoning.

Now goblins and kobolds, on the other hand... love it. They love* that magical fart smell. It has... unexpected results.

*indiscriminate berserker lust, actually

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Socks4Hands posted:

Are you pro-chaos or anti-chaos? Let's just say I watched the Lego Movie and learned the hard way.

There is order in chaos, and chaos in order.

Such are The Laws.

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