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The Picard Maneuver@startrek.websitemod to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world – 956 points –
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Tell me more about these "spells", which occur in limited numbers, are capable of long-range attacks, deal explosive & powerful damage... and can only be performed by someone who has the proper equipment and spends time in advance preparing them for use? :-D

I loved Outlaw Star! Such cool world building!

Why does this remind me of a lightsaber? Oh yes I see, it is the personal love and craftsmanship of its construction, noice:-D.

This is the 2nd time today that I've ran across a caster on Lemmy & I'm loving it!

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no... no! Don't remind me of Outlaw Star!

I'll need to watch it again! It's been so very long. It is such a core part of my aesthetic & genre preferences since I first saw it as a teenager, but I haven't seen it in a good while.

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Damn, Harry Dresden is not aging well.

I admit I stopped at about book five, but I don't remember Harry ever using a gun.

He definitely does, but I think it fades in and out of use at times. Even in Storm Front I believe he has a .38 Special. Later books I think it's a .44 Magnum.

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sighs Pulls out D&D character sheet.

5E's semi-official gunslinger uses wisdom instead of intelligence, so unless you have a GM willing to let you make a wis-casting wizard you might want to go cleric instead. I think that swapping casting stats should be allowed in a lot of situations anyway, and not only because wis-ard is a funny pun, but I'm aware that this isn't a universal opinion. Forge cleric would let you make your gun magic and ask god for ammunition with only two levels though

Wizard with a gun is fun and all, but praising blessed ammunition tickles a different set of fancies.

Artificer would work too though. Arcane spells, flamethrower, and pistol. Call it the 'Namancer. Let the Artificer upgrade it as their wand for Arcane firearm and burst fire a number of shots identical to cantrip scaling.

Hold on. I need to go write this up. I feel some Duality of Man helmet graffiti coming on...

Shouldn't a gunslinger be a Dexterity based class?

For the most part it is. But it uses wisdom as its secondary stat, so if you pick a non-wis caster class you're going to have to split your ASIs up a lot

I think pathfinder has at least 3 ways to build wizard-with-a-gun

I've heard about a spellsword would this be a spell rifle?

I'm waiting for people to just mod a fucking .45 Caliber into Baldurs Gate 3 so I can blast Gortash in his fucking head the first time I see him

I am so much ready for Artificer dlc. I am ready with every fiber of my being

Shoulda checked like 3 weeks ago. They had you sorted already.

Project Warlock 2 looking pretty good!

I had no idea this existed but now Ralph Bakshi's Wizards is top of my to-watch list.

Casts Shield

Like that is going to matter

Elminster took one level of Fighter for a reason. Even without the 3 levels of Cleric, or the level of Rogue, that one level of Fighter helps every Wizard once the enemy is too close to safely cast. Automatic proficiency with all basic and martial weapons is useful at close range. Especially if one happened to pick up a Vorpal Keen Katana that one happens to be proficient with.

Oh, and taking a Pseudodragon Familiar gives the Wizard the Improved Evasion Feat, so you just kinda became almost immune to other wizards because if you fail a DEX check, you take half damage, and almost all of the Wizard direct damage spells require a DEX check.

I didn't understand the title before the pic loaded so here it is

Shit llepsretnuoc

AI memes are taking over huh

I wondered the same thing, but I really can't tell if this is AI or not. Does something give it away to you?

I think "wizard-posting" has been a thing since before the AI rush.

Well he has five normal looking fingers so I guess it's not AI?

Simple jinx should cause most firearms to fail or jam In a universe where guns exist and level-1 wizards can cast magic missile/fireball and cantrips like firebolt, setting fire to things (like gunpowder), my bet is that low-level magic users aren't going to be trumped by steampunk-grade tech that easily

You could make that argument for almost any weapon though. The physical meddling required to snap a bowstring, dull a blade, or even just put a rock in their shoe is minimal. Magic needs to have limits if you want the mundane to compete at any level, and one of those limits is often an unspoken acceptance that you can't just arbitrarily foul another person's gear.

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