>player plays a mute wizard
>stills casts verbal spells
>yes it's dnd 5e
then again Components in spells that are verbal and somatic are a retarded concept as just doing a whistle with your finger pointed can work lol.
I rather just have Components or a source of energy to cast spells or some other shit
I do think that 5e sucks but your case is clearly about an entitled player and overly permissive dm.
You know the drill
DnD spells come across as incredibly artificial, like pressing invisible buttons on an invisible machine. Beep boop beep.
Never mind that the world is perpetually stuck in the 14th/15th century, with varying anachronistic trends.
>like pressing invisible buttons on an invisible machine
As opposed to what? Pressing buttons on an actual machine?
“Mixing bat shit and sulfur this one specific way produces Fireball, and no other alternatives”
Chemistry doesn’t work like that. Clearly some alien raped or molested the concept.
>chemistry says that if you mix something in the exact same proportions multiple times you will get something different every time
Clearly someone raped or molested your retarded little brain.
Think harder, retard. Way to miss the point.
Consider human nature and how we approach the world’s available resources.
Mixing bat shit in with sulphur and speaking faggy words ONLY produces [Fireball]. Different amounts don’t make a bigger/smaller amount of spherical flame—and nothing you do will allow you to micro-manage the components to light a cigarette or just a bloody campfire. It is -always- the same fucking explosive sphere of flame, and it -always- comes from the index finger.
If it wasn’t this, you would have many, many people in the world applying different variations and applications of such a “”chemical”” reaction. Much like fucking black powder—Imagine if gunpowder -only- worked -one- specific way, and barrels/designs meant squat. The spark/impact was always the same.
Clearly it has NOTHING to do with intellectual ingenuity. The fact that a wizard’s memory is sucked dry as soon as he casts the spell is also suHispanicious.
That settings like the Forgotten Realms explicitly tells you shit like “the printing press is inherently evil and the world isn’t ready for it yet” basically affirms that the world is one big simulation that relies on (functional) ignorance, and only wants you to use its own artificially enforced physics.
There isn’t a single fictional example of a magic system that isn’t inherently artificial / conveniently concise to the point where something intelligent may as well be responsible for it. Is it AI? The “gods”? Aliens? Who is responsible for such unseen artifice? Any fantasy world that has beep-boop rules to the magic is closer to sci-fi under a veil than plain fantasy proper.
Who is the real wizard behind the curtains running the show/game? The physics is too ‘entertained’. Remember that the in-setting physics is all for the sake of a GAME or NARRATIVE.
I get you, but, it’s tricky since these are games, as you said, which rely on rules to function. I find it is best to keep the rules of the game, including the magic, away from the actual characters being played by the players, in the setting. The characters can’t know. If they did, that would be dumb. As far as the fictional charactersknow their spells don’t work that way, but from the perspective of the player playing the character, they work when needed to work.
It's magic, retard.
Retard excuse. “It’s science, I ain’t gotta explain shit” is its equivalent by any other name. Fuck.
Listen. If “magic” exists, then there is something to support its existence, allowing it to exist. You may not know what it is, but it IS there.
It's magic, retard.
but no guns!
or they're at least optional lul
>Player plays a blind wizard in 5E
>Think they are going to do the all so gimmicky "I use my familiar to see things for me" character
>No, he asks the DM for a cloak of seeing that gives him 360 sight and advantage on all perception rolls
>DM fucking allows it after I wanted the DM multiple times this guy is a power gamer previously
>Upset but don't let it get to me as it's only a one shot
>Wizard goes around stealing shit and causing trouble for ten minutes
>When he was eventually caught he said "But I am blind, how can I steal things if I am blind!"
>The DM allows this excuse and his character gets away with it
And that is only a quarter of the story with this complete shit show of that guy, I can go on but it would be a bit off topic.
My that guy talked the DM into a monk weapon that insta kills if the target fails a save. A different guy is doing the "the familiar is actually the PC". the third is doing his 13th "I was just isekaid and I don't know right from wrong!" character. The DM is tying to run a historical campaign and I'm the only serious player.
Nta but i fucking hate that the "teehee" style is always assumed to be the default and every fucking time the gm has to set expectations to have a serious game.
>Inb4 it's a moment to have fun
Fuck fun. It's a recreational activity, that doesn't imply one should throw depth and nuance off the fucking window, go playing multiplayer vidya or some silly society game if you want just to hang out and have "fun".
>Character is so brimming with magic that he is unable to speak for fear the spells may force themselves out of him despite his iron will
>Only speaks to speak spells
Sounds kind of like an awesome character concept.
Not for 5e mind you, but in general.
>character doesn't speak a word for fear of saying the forbidden spell that will unmake the world
>nobody knows if or how real it actually is, but he doesn't want to risk it
There was a girl like that in an old harem anime.
I read a book series about a character who had that problem.
You should have sperged at the table
Just imagine the magic words to be like what a deaf person emits from their vocal chords.
Wanting to play a mute character is a red flag that should get a player barred from the game, he's saying that he's so uninterested in roleplaying that he wants an excuse to not do it.
Opposite in my experience. Mute characters try to hog up all the spotlight playing charades trying to interreact with everyone while being mute. What usually takes ten seconds for somebody to say they insist taking two minutes to act out.
Yeah that sounds dreadful
I played a skeleton in a game years ago. I communicated with the party via drawing pictures. It ended up being a ton of fun but pretty exhausting after a while.
PREPARE FOR THE CONCEPTER OF ARTS.
THE FORGER OF DWARFS
THE CATCHER OF ARTS
IT'S
Have you tried not playing D&D?
>as just doing a whistle with your finger pointed can work lol.
Have you tried actually reading the spellcasting rules where it's explicitly spelled out that you can't just point and whistle?