Thursday, September 24, 2015

On Kind Sorcerors, or the Crowd Sourced Mage

The modus operandi of the average mage, wizard, or sorcerer is to impose their will upon the cosmos. For reasons inscrutable, a few individuals do this in reverse: they can only impose the will of others upon the cosmos. These poor sods are called kind sorcerers.

Anytime anyone around a kind sorcerer desires something, a spell pops into his head. He doesn't know who desires this, but a clever man can often guess. This includes casual player chat at the table. The DM declares what the desire was and then comes up with a spell that would help accomplish it. She doesn't tell the hapless player what this spell is.

I made this post just so I could use this picture.

Yes, this means the other players can just declare how much they desire healing. And yes, the DM can declare how much the orcs desire you puny humans to die. We have fun here.

A kind sorceress can keep up to her level spells inside his head. If anyone around her desires something, and she's all full up on spells, the new desire replaces the oldest desire. A kind sorceress can cast up to her level spells per day.

HOWEVER: if the kind sorceress first spends an entire round trying to accomplish the desire, she casts it for free: it doesn't count against the total.

It is for this reason that kind sorcerers tend to be highly agreeable people who act like total schizophrenics.

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