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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 22:51:33 No.43289183 View Reply Report Delete

Hey /tg/, I'm running a game and a non magical character wants to learn a spell or two to help round him out.

How should I handle this? I don't want magic to be a sort of easy-peasy thing where anyone can just learn it, but I also don't want to force this guy to not fulfill his desire in game.

Game system is NOT dnd, by the way.

Sage

Sage Sun 25 Oct 2015 23:06:13 No.43289591 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43289918 >>43290025

You specifically know to tell us it's not d&d but intentionally neglect to name the system. Sage.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 23:17:27 No.43289918 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43293676

>>43289591

>system agnostic question relating to DMing and not breaking the flow of the campaign world to accommodate a player while still trying to figure it out
>"sageing" in response

Fuck off.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 23:21:21 No.43290025 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43290086

>>43289591
wow, fuck off

>>43289183
give him a tome or magic manual and make him study it, every time they camp or travel allow him to do relevant check rolls to see how much he's learned

every once in a while give him a pity point and allow him to practice, maybe let him cast a spell and if he crits it or succeeds make him cast it successfully and reward him with the addition of said spell in his definitive abilities

i hope this helps!

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 23:23:18 No.43290086 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>43290322

>>43290025
>give him a tome or magic manual and make him study it, every time they camp or travel allow him to do relevant check rolls to see how much he's learned

This was how I was going to fluff it originally.

>every once in a while give him a pity point and allow him to practice, maybe let him cast a spell and if he crits it or succeeds make him cast it successfully and reward him with the addition of said spell in his definitive abilities

yeah, this is something I do with magic a lot. Magic may allow you to cast a lesser version of a spell at any time, or may come to you in a flash when you need it, or may be inspired by something beautiful or terrifying, that kind of thing. More organic magic.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 23:31:40 No.43290322 Report Delete

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>>43290086
>or may be inspired by something beautiful or terrifying
that's a pretty good setup for that, actually
throw the party into a fight and make them target him and allow him to try out his magic - maybe even leave him no other choice but to rely on his magic

for example
>party is camping in a forest during the night
>they get ambushed by monsters with huge black eyes
>they corner them or separate them
>your not-mage readies his sword, but one of the monsters snatches it out of his hands
>he gets cornered by three of them
>something something "You notice the big black eyes of the creatures, and remember the spell Magelight that you've been reading about in your studies."
>he casts magelight, help him a bit with the roll threshold
>the magelight blinds the creatures, and they scurry away from the not-mage

proceed to have an "I did it!" moment, instant player enthusiasm, etc

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 23:49:38 No.43290774 Report Delete

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>>43289183
Give him a magical item which does what he wants.

And by that I mean,

>ok, so you start researching how to cast XYZ, and oh holy shit is this hard. Like, multi-classing into 8 years of wizard-school sort of hard. But after talking to some people, you find there are some short cuts. With the ear-muffs of mcguffining you can cast XYZ as long as [some balancing mechanic].

If he literally wants to be able to cast generic spells... tell him to multiclass, fluff some education, and his next level is wizard. Duh.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 01:58:52 No.43293469 Report Delete

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playing d&d i once had a paladin who's stats were too low to cast any form of cure wounds. We settled that any time he was near someone who knew relevant magic he could ask them to teach him a little, because he has the power in him but not the natural mental capacity to use it.
So after a while he could use variations of cure wounds but only that, no other divine spells a paladin would normally be able to use. Learning from a book works just as well as a reason to learn the spell, I just thought it was good that he learned JUST healing spells and didn't just get a free ticket for magic he didn't have the stats for.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 02:11:03 No.43293676 Report Delete

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>>43289918
Except some games take better knowing spells than others, so fuck it, I'll amuse myself and assume he plays anima.

Tell him to grab half gift next even level increment.

There you go, sure that was useful right anon?

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