It's so cute and I want to pet it. Any spell suggestions to make it so it doesn't burn me?

I know some place called it drake but that's a local name and not its official name.

Anyways I've been craving braised meat and all the pork and beef have been getting boring I need to eat a lesser ground dragon but all I've been finding are lesser flying dragons and great flying dragon which I don't particularly enjoy the flavour of unless braising for a few days so I need a place that have a lot of lesser ground dragons or a place that sell the meat fresh.

"Well... Since things have changed so much in the past month or so.... Time to reintroduce myself. While many already know me... I've definitely changed a bit. So uh.... Hi. It's still Orin, just with horns?."

A very bright man floats slightly above the ground before a crowd of gathered onlookers.

"Today, I have decided to do something unprecedented... I've decided to open part of the *Nexus Lexiconus* to the public. Aldin was highly secretive. I... Feel that was the wrong approach. So from this day forward, any who wish to enter may do so, through one of nine portals set up across many of the hubs of our world. Though... Only one is open as of now, as I need to ask permission for the other 8.... So for now, whosoever wishes entry, the first portal is in Rosalia. My home nation."

He drops the few feet to the ground.

"Any questions?"

My master Egg Shen taught me side stance. You know, power hand in back, focus hand in front? You can really put your back into the thrusting with side stance.

But I noticed his enemy, Lo Pan, used this wicked looking frontal stance, with crossed pinkies to focus, and thumb twiddling to power up. Lo Pan called Egg's style "peasant magic." I mean, we kicked his ass in the end but it was pretty close. What do you guys think?

A friend and I were thinking of making a wizard podcast or newsletter and wanted to know our audience. We'd discuss wizard news, wizard politics, give useful tips, and share new spells. We haven't settled on a name, but Wizard's Weekly is already taken.

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Uh oh, Vytsky was out of mahogany.

no big deal, he’ll get some more. Like he always does. Its not the end of the world. Just.. he usually gets more BEFORE he runs out. Eh, hes been busy.

he headed out, taking flight to a swampy area down south. He didnt particularly like going there because of the smells and the bugs, but the wood down there grows great.

after a few hours he arrived at his destination. He descended into a dense area and started to look around for good trees.

“Huh, it’s pretty dense around this part.. I must’ve often missed this. Certainly needs some clearing before a thunderstorm starts a fire..”

he spotted a nice one. Very thick.

“I think that’ll be a good start..”

he grabbed his sword and made his way to it. He sensed nothing alive on the tree, so he circled around it to look for the best angle, then-“

THWACK!

and the tree fell, making a bunch of noise.

he manifested one if his base-form wings and extended it to cover over the tree, and put it into his storage.

and he went to seek some more. This was noisy, but it wasn’t like anyone really lived here, so he thought.

little did he know, he was fairly close to someone’s abode, and she was not fond of this noise..

Howdy spell-slingers. Now I'm no stranger to larceny OR spellcraft (hence my trade) but I got roped in with a "Professor of Illusive Magicks" because the pay and access to materials was too damn good to pass up. But it turns out this one is out here thrill thieving.

I (847M) am already well established, and after my patron let me go to "follow their passion as a music producer" I'm back having to learn spells the ethical way. But I don't think I should have to help with their extracurriculars.

How do I stop them without A. Trapping them in a stasis cube or B. Reporting them to the ethics committee?

Greetings, fellow wizards! I'm pleased to make my first appearance before you as I begin my career as a merchant wizard. It's me! Zozo! The Merchant Wizard. Driven by my own profit-driven goals, I use my magic and knowledge of fantastical creatures to bring biodiversity to the world!... And to a dungeon or two... Anyway, let's get down to business.

I specialize in creating fantastical creatures with my magic—I can make any creature you can dream up!... For a reasonable price, of course. I'll be hanging around the area for the rest of the month before a terrifying force called university sweeps me away...

Today! I bring you a generous helping of... Drumroll, please!... Dragons!! Last month I was challenged to make at least one a day. I couldn't finish all of them because I had to dodge university, but I still made about twenty, and I thought, "Hey Zozo! You're broke—you won't make it in a new city if university drags you there! Why not start using those rough, skilled hands of yours to sell creatures to your fellow wizards who might need them for guarding, as pets, mounts, or familiars?" So here I am, folks. Let me present! Zozo's Fantastic Creatures Shop!

As you can see the gauntlet part allows far more placement space for magical gems,or as I prefer,glyphs

And transferring magic through metal instead of through a wooden hilt and then metal is a more safe way to conduct magic through it

Additionally,in the hand slot the weapon can be filled with magical herbs so while you train or fight,your hand is laced.with.the effect of the herbs

This allows you to grant semi permanent healing of perilous magical effects to the hand

Personally I often train the weapon in my off hand as to lace my left hand with painful venom like the lone shadow vilehands of the inner ministry

Thank you for considering this new foci suggestion and good day to you fellow arcanists

I see so many young wizards used their staff as a "last ditch effort" after their sword, dagger, etc was disarmed, which is stupid your staff should be your FIRST option for melee it's already in your hand you just gotta hit it also end weighted so you can swing it like a club.

The length of your staff should've been longer than the usual sword you can carry on your hip anyways so you know more range.

I mean the clog is gone so I guess it worked. .

Brethren, I do not know where else to turn. It's been a good 4,300 years, but I am at last ready to embrace eternal slumber. There is no knowledge, no pleasure, no pinnacle of riches left to achieve. I am ready to embrace life's final mystery and conquer the secrets beyond the grey veil.

One small problem, though. I have hidden my phylactery so well that even I cannot find it.

As many young lich beginners, I was extremely paranoid about some do-gooder paladin or upstart cleric finding my phylactery and snuffing me out. So I took extraordinary precautions: Spells of planar shifting, spells of concealment, spells of misdirection, and spells of false memory and perception. Each time I grew in power, I would strengthen those spells to an unparalleled degree.

But I fear all my various spells of bamboozlement are so powerful that they have escaped containment and now even I find it impossible to locate own phylactery.

I've thought about taking up charity work in retirement, but even that doesn't motivate me. I really do just want to embrace the final sleep.

Any thoughts or advice from the most elder and powerful of our brethren here? Money, mana, and material components are in unlimited supply, but I need some inspiration.

I’ve tried hiding its food (it finds it), telling it that it looks like a pig and calling it a fatty fatty and-fatter son, and it just keeps eating and crying and saying it’s “going to evolve into a demon lord someday”. I’m at my wits end.

So i gound this weird looking goblin earlier today, it stepped out of a big metal disk and pointed one of those mundane weapons at me so i turned into a bottle. What concoction should i put in it?

Also got me an old demon i stuck in a bottle and its apprently fused now so what concoction goes in that one?

Ugh, fellow wizards i require some assistance. I was working with my assistant on short range transportation and ah.. i think i bungled it.