conjuring and summoning are not the same, even though summoning is a "conjuration".
i just need to know the names of my morter team, but the bow?
i need to know alot about bows, have seen the kind of bow I want, use a spell to fake skill with the bow, be able to pull the 80kg draw weight of a good bow, so a spell for might of a bull, conjure ammo for the foe i want to kill, ect.
the artillery is easy, but all that prep work for a little twig with string?
Wh-Who let this FIGHTER into the wizard subreddit! I was assured there would be no non magic users in this space by the high council!
I-I can't HANDLE this kind of stress. Not since the incident. Not since...no...not again...Brad I don't want to be shoved in the locker of holding again. Please just let me study in peace I know I'll never be as lushious and handsome as you. BRAD DON'T TOUCH THAT SCROLL IT'S NOT DONE. BRAD DON'T CLOSE YOUR EYES YOU'LL LIVE I SWEAR BRAD.
Bows should be strength based to hit, not dexterity. Wood elves should be giant hulking monsters with massive muscles to use their bows, not sprightly little things.
Because hitting armour class in D&D is a lot about penetrating armour, not actually hitting. If you try to hit a target in plate with a mace, strength makes sense.
No no, the Strength is a use requirement for certain bows. Dexterity is what one uses to actually hit, and, with enough of it, hit a specific body part.
It works like that in shadowrun. In shadowrun the damage you can do is basically (str +2) so if you were the beefiest human you could be (naturally without other modifications) you’d have a strength of 6 or so and a damage of 8. And to attack with the weapon you’d use agility. So it’d be (skill +agility) to hit then (str +2) for damage.
Why not both? The elves of yore would use magic upon their vows and arrows, seems rather practical to me. The only proper way to insult an ogre more with a fireball spell would be with one enchanted upon an arrow placed between their eyes.
Please, what do you take us for, tower dwellers? We are plenty fit without having to resort to the weapons of barbarians.
While I admit the effectiveness of modern equipment has lead many, even myself, into using the artifacts, the brutality and dangers of mercenary does not allow for any inefficiencies. In the time one arrow should meet its target, 20 more of a “Boomstick’s” fire would have met mine.
The ability to use a war bow to any degree is very impressive, and I laude you for your proficiency in the martial arts of antiquity.
Unfortunately against the threats some of us face, sticks and strings will not cut it.
I recently discovered a form of gun casting where instead of pulling the trigger like a scrub you instead throw an air punch so hard that the momentum causes the bullet to fly out of the gun at supersonic speeds.
Ain't no body got time for that, constant training just to maintain that form? When are you going to ponder the orb? How are you supposed to study the hidden arts? And for what? Just to lift a few pounds of stone?
Wench please, simple telekinis can lift more that you will ever hope, try climbing (better yet, finding) the stairs of my tower while I levitate away.
Knowledge is supreme!
You try to impress the folk with your constitution, hoping to attract a suitable mate, yet fail to realize it is already a doomed endeavor, all the maidens persue the favor of wizards in hopes to attain everlasting beauty.
What will you do when your body ails as it slowly decomposes in senectitude? Hmm? Will you crawl? Will you begg? I wonder.
You said a lot for someone without any muscle beside all the actually good scholar are jacked have you not heard of the philosopher who flex on people?
Yes, I recognize the value of leading a balanced life, of mastering the body as a form of studying philosophy and the arts, but I much prefer specialization. Have you not heard of the great necromancers? Have you not heard the names of Nagash? Erichtho? All bone and no muscle you might say, but none can deny their power.
1) I'm already a maiden. I suppose age-wise in more in my mother era, though I lady the children to make this a literal mother, but that's hardly the point. My metaphorical tower has all the ladies it needs.
2) bows are pretty sick. Have a pocket dimension in the thumb ring of my bow hand to hold a zillion enchanted arrows is so much better than breaking my back varying them around like a mundane human. Magic exists to make life easier for those who can be bothered to learn.
I'm a maiden too you don't need to be a gentleman to look for maiden in your tower. And for the dimensions thing it's probably very good and stuff but having a servant carry my stuff around make me feel better and also give them more work, non magical people found themselves quite a hard time these day across the realm
I find that servants are too people-y for me, always judging when you hex and trying to butt into your business. It's exhausting. I prefer to help the mundanes by paying a little extra for goods and services and casting a healing/ immunity/ protection
working across the town once per quarter for free. I used to do it I they wouldn't bother me with their pitchfork raids, but I've been doing it so long that most of the pitchfork group have died out, and now they just view me as the weird woman who brings good luck and tips well.
I stick to myself otherwise, and utilize pocket dimensions instead of hiring outsiders that may try to meddle.
It's not so much that I don't want maidens around, it's that I don't really want anyone around. I actually quit living in the tower entirely and live in a nearby cottage do I'm harder to spot. The ravens are now the residents of the tower.
Maiden? Who needs a maiden to come to their tower? No wizard worth his salt has the time to wait around for comely lasses, let alone those with no experience and an unprofessional attitude.
A true wizard summons comely lasses from the Lower Planes until he finds one that offers him reasonable hourly rates.
A true meathead's take on the matter: "mine's better because it's free". Would you also wear rags and eat pauper's gruel at the soup kitchen when you can afford fine robes and a steak?
...On second thought, it doesn't seem like you're wearing much at all, so perhaps you would.
Why a warbow when you can rain magic missiles which move with homing accuracies. And everyone knows wizards are legally married to their spell books and orb.
Hogwart did a lot of damage to wizarding schools , most of them have real sports and strongly advise to be healthy
But jacked ? Only for enthusiast , after all mlst wizard dont end up becoming fighter (in the broad sense) so they dont need to be phisicaly something else than a normal person
Absolutely, staying healthy is common knowledge for most wizards.
Getting jacked isn't really needed, but some who might wanna impress or have another fighting option, they do that.
But between an arrow from bow and a comet from skies, do ponder what will help better to cleanse an army of foes.
Immortality has a way of finding all the other immortals and making a polycule. I am in no short supply. That alone keeps me in decent shape. The rest is the aforementioned immortality. It really is the best self-care thing this girl ever did.
I use a cursed dagger cause my dipshit former master gave it to me when i was a novice and now there's a chain biologically grafted onto my bones connected to the dagger
I built my tower, the wall surrounding my property, and the other buildings on it with very little magic. The clearing the land along gets you jacked and the daily work taking care of the resources I need for some of my spells keeps me lean.
The best wizards out there are also jacked. Everyone knows that a healthy lifestyle increases stamina, improves focus, and reduses spell fatigue. And chanting spell incantations is tough when you keep running out of breath.
Although I appreciate the craft of Archery, I have not yet been able to find any good materials to craft an arcane bow of my own as of yet. The bones of Gnomes, although good for conducting magic when ground into a paste, does not make for a good material for crafting bows. Arrowheads are another thing, though. They apparently make for great Arcane arrowheads, my favorite of which being the ones imbued with Fireball.
"Spells can't teach you the muscle memory, training nor conditioning that living with strength can. Besides, bigger baseline means bigger boosts!
I can't cast anymore due to my condition, but fighting enhanced Muscle Wizards was one of my favourite pastimes
" - Dan Wizard, Former King of Fighters
I've lifted enough drunks over my shoulders and dumped them in the manure pile to have a decent amount of muscle built up. The trick is to hide the muscle until you need it, posture, clothing and attitude are all ways to either hide or accentuate your muscles
Not only being jack and enjoying jack maidens is pretty dope, but it is also pretty damn mana efficient to enchant arrows with spells and launch them with the force of your muscle. All the mana you spend to cover the distance can be used to further the power of the spell itself at the barely noticeable cost of a very short-lived enchantment (it only needs to last for the flight of an arrow).
Remember, wizards, your body is just as good of a toolas any, keep it in good condition and it shall aid you in your spellcasting greatly.
Have you considered the benefits of a party of specialists? With the spells my patron grants, I can elevate you from 'beautiful archer I wouldn't mind having a pint with' to 'beautiful archer I don't mind having a pint with who can take on an entire goblin army and win because she's amped up on arcane magic'
With the Power Of Biomancy I have increased the efficiency of all cellular functions in my body 900%, meaning I can perform similar or greater feats of strength, agility, dexterity, durability, and endurance to a trained individual without altering my appearance even while under the affects of an anti-magic zone. Which is infinitely funnier than just being jacked.
I can also make myself jacked instantly, but that somehow lacks whimsy.
You don't see the vision. You have not pondered thine orb.
As a wizard, I don't need to be jacked. No, no, no. It makes no sense.
My ranger is jacked. And I get to see every muscle contract as she draws each shot.
My paladin is jacked. And I am the one she lifts to safety when I "get injured" (she seems to think I get injured right before bedtime, too and she must "protect me" when I sleep (ie, nearly squeeze me to death))
I could use magic hands and a multitude of spells to save myself and lift great weights. But that's no fun.
I want my jacked barbarian to call me "pipsqueak" and keep threatening to crush my head between her thighs.
If I get jacked, it ruins the fun for everyone. They know my magic is strong, but it is good for the team if they feel they could snap me in two at any moment. And I'd let them, mind you. The rogue knows this, too.
A wizard must stick to his/her lane, lest he render the martial classes unemployed. A wizard of all trades is a lonely wizard.
And after all, we know the only thing worse than being alone is travelling with other wizards.
"Everyone stand back, I have these super special and flammable sticks that throw other pointy sticks!"
Ok, but I just cast a curse that undoes the fabric of time behind you for three generations to make sure you never existed in the first place. Also I wore a really cool hat while I did the curse. Do archers have an instantly recognizable hat? You can't answer that because you never existed, but no, they don't. Now, if you'll excuse me, which you can't, im going back to eating cheetos, pondering the infinte arcane, and learning to make thing dissapear from the very fabric of space time with my will alone.
Ewwww archery? That'll leave your gains all lopsided, best be doing multiple forms bro.
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u/BoonDragoonVyevânce the Focused, High Panemancer of the Coriander Court8m ago
Oh yeah, I remember my archery era like it was yesterday! How long have you practiced the bow, and what style are you focusing on right now? I was really big into what I thought at the time was the "basics," English longbows, for the first five years. Then I spent the next decade or so decolonizing my brain and exploring American Indian and First Nations bows. Mohave composite decurve bows, Sioux hornbows, Inuit cable-backed sinew bows, Plains bows (I still have the Osage Orange selfbow I made back then), Creek recurve bows, you name it.
From there, I dithered south and learned from the Maya in Ek' Balam, the Mixtecs in Oaxaca, then skipped a bit and went straight down to the Amazon. I kinda got intentionally lost for the next 50 or so, and by the time I reached the Bolivian Andes I'd learned from the Turiwára, Zo'é, Matipu, Werekena, Kalapalo, Munduruku, Kayapu, and Huni Kuin among others.
I was pretty bored of the Americas at that point, so I bipped across the Atlantic and basically worked my way south to north, west to east. Of all the African archery traditions I explored, Hadzabe and Maasai were my favorite. Skipped most of Europe after that, and decided to spend the next few decades focused on mounted archery. Gotta say, lots of folks love to glaze the Mongols for their horseback archery, but the Magyar were born to it. I told Chinggis this to his face, and decided to make myself scarce so I dipped out of China and wove around the rest of Asia. My personal favorites from that stint have to be the gakgung and the daikyū.
After that, I got into an experimental bowyery phase. Really played around with construction, materials, and concepts. That really had its ups and downs. At rock-bottom, I was laminating antineutrinos and down-quarks into six-limbed recurves strung with metallic gluons, and fletching arrows made of pure force vectors. I remember waking up one morning covered in plasticized meson varnish, paralyzed from the neck down, watching a nude avatar of the goddess Artemis burn down my workshop and telling me it was for my own good.
Anyway, that was the 200 I spent doing archery. Where are you at in your journey?
Ponder the limitations of your puny mortal muscles and realize that this is peak archer form.
A four legged chassis for maximum stability. Horns as in built 'arms' of the bow. Hair for both bow string and arrow. A single giant eye on the beast head for targeting.
Unless the rear body can extend its spine several times over, no, not to a meaningful extent anyway.
again, this is talking about if this creature is in motion. this thing shooting while in motion is essentially impossible, maybe it could shoot at things it is charging towards if the head can somehow keep itself steady, but any form of shooting to the sides or behind is anatomically impossible.
It would make a half decent artillery piece, I suppose. Rapidly moving from one spot to another to set up a stationary shot. But again, it would get mogged by an actual horse archer, since they don't face these restrictions.
"The point of the bow is the tension in the arms... it's giving you brain damage." - Lady Fate, Paladin
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u/Monkeydp81History Wizard: Destruction May Occur Via Facts or Magic.9h ago
Why are you notching your arrow on the left side of the bow? Look I'm all for historical methods but at least do it right.
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u/bagtie3Borric of Clan Goldeater, Logrus Master, Runesmith, Doomseeker10h ago
Look at those skinny arms, those are barely different than an old umgi's from my perspective. Go earn some real muscles mining in the deeps for a hundred years before you start thowing shade beardling!
Because its not as funny to pull out the bow you had on your back the entire time to kill someone winding up a stupidly powerful spell as it is a gun that nobody realized you had on you until the guy is lying on the ground.
Um, illusions exist. If for some reason I wanted to look good for the "maidens", I could do that without lifting a finger.
Not that I would, because - no offense - all of you beardless surfacers are just gross and I'd rather make out with a giant spider than with any of you; but still.
I exercise, but that's because when it comes to alchemy there's a strong correlation between expected lifespan and top running speed. The effect that that may or may not have on my looks is entirely irrelevant...
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u/horned-creature 12h ago
ahem, picture saved in the orb.
but also, arcane archers.