Hey, I have a quick question. Someone posted this at base camp a little while ago, so I wanted to confirm something.
In D&D and so on, how many possibilities are there for non-mage characters to learn spell type stuff? Say I was a rogue, how likely would it be that I could begin casting magic? And would it require particularly specialised leveling and/or point allocating?
@Matt In D&D there are ways to learn magic if you're a non-spellcasting class, though most of them involve leveling in a spellcasting class or taking a Prestige (specialisation-ish) class with spells.
The post you mention is fairly in that spellcasting is tied to a specific ability - Wizards use Intelligence, Bards and Sorcerers use Charisma, Clerics, Druids etc. use Wisdom
A character with low (9 or less) Intelligence will not be able to cast any Wizard (or other Int-based) spells but can possibly learn Charisma or Wisdom based spells
@Baskakov_Dmitriy I see you got a reply from someone else already. I'm glad! For questions like that though, asking on Role-playing Games Meta is probably the faster way to get good information, since everyone sees that, while only a few people see questions asked in chat, and only 1 (me) got a notification about the question here.
@SevenSidedDie My comment would have been along the lines of "are you trying to make the case that 'speaking mildly'!='poorly playing a noble'? In which case this is a frame challenge" and link to frame challenge meta.
I... got somewhat swamped with renovations at home, so have no idea what's been happening with that. Last time, we had 5 posts ready to go, a few drafts, and BESW was working on graphical bits.
A bunch of people had expressed interest in participating, but didn't, so far. Has something changed?
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Most needed skill was outdoorsman, which was used for straight up survival (spend one point, to find some water) at the discression of the players. Otherwise it was used to relay information as needed. They find a body. Someone with forensics could identify the probable cause of death (or in fact LACK of such info, which is also info).
Someone want to help me not leave Do you have any references to back up your assertion, or is this just "take my word for it"? as a comment on this answer. Is there a better way to word it? Or will it always be snarky, coming from a "competitor"?
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