OldManNewRobes

[evilwizard]

oh god i just realized ive been posting on corporeal tumblr this whole time 🤦

[oldmannewrobes]

Oh! I thought you just lost your login and decided to just stay on corporeal instead.

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[evilwizard]

oh god i just realized ive been posting on corporeal tumblr this whole time 🤦

[oldmannewrobes]

Oh! I thought you just lost your login and decided to just stay on corporeal instead.

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[evilwizard]

oh god i just realized ive been posting on corporeal tumblr this whole time 🤦

[oldmannewrobes]

Oh! I thought you just lost your login and decided to just stay on corporeal instead.

[cluster-fandom]

Wizards, witches, and other magic users. What is the absolute smallest length a wand can be? I’m trying to prove a point.

[the-mighty-dalob]

I mean... considering one can also just forgo any casting implement if they so wish...

I'd say even the stub of a pencil counts.

The Real question is, how long can a wand be before most mages would consider it a staff?

[adderalltheblue]

Wand: The length of your forearm.

Rod: The length of a cane.

Staff: The length/height of a wizard.

[oldmannewrobes]

I mostly agree. If you can't hold it in your hand fully, and have it extend at least half your hand's width past your hand, that's not a wand, thats a charm. If you can rest your elbow on a table, with your forearm vertical, set your wand next to it, and have the wand be taller than your closed fist, that's not a wand, its a rod. If you can stand your rod on the ground, yourself stand next to it, and it reaches your ribs, I'd say that's staff terretory, though I could be amicable to discussion if you wish to call that a rod still. If your staff if more than half again as tall as you, that's not a staff, you're casting spells with a gods damned pike, you lunatic.

[adderalltheblue]

I think we're all missing the big picture.

These are all just words for "sticks with which one casts magic"

While they can have different design elements and can be used for different things, it's all about proportion to the caster. What a man would call a rod, a gnome would call a staff.

[oldmannewrobes]

Certianly, staffage is always relative to a certain extent, though having once tried a sky-giants wand as a staff, I will say there are certain problems of dimensions, magical conducitivity, and etheric design that do emerge as one attempts such a thing. However I have always found that relative size is a rather usefull classification. Compared to, say, certain models of applicative distinction, it holds a much wider applicability, with far fewer edge cases, exceptions and unintutive conclusions. (I once knew a sage that insisted on the model of "Scrolls are single purpose, single use. Wands are single purpose, multi-use, pre-charged. Rods are multi-purpose, multi-use, pre-charged. Staffs are multi purpose, non-pre-charged.", which I have seen others before and after adhere to, and I could never find it anything but bizzare to call a a short flexible casting instrument a staff, and truly rediculous to call a staff-shaped wooden object imbued with a single cast of a powerfull spell a scroll) But perhaps you are right, and we should move towards a more unified classification, though I suspect it would be difficult to make anything stick (heh), the current nomenclature is well established, and finding a new term that could compate with and encompass both wand and staff would be a challange indeed.

[wizardlywazardly]

waterproofing scrolls

I’m going to the beach later this week and I’m trying to pack some scrolls. Last time I went they got all wet and became completely unusable. I tried laminating them, but that just recused the effectivity by like up to 70%. Does anyone have any techniques for waterproofing them? I asked my magic orb about this, but it told me f*** off and just not to bring scrolls to the beach. There’s gotta be a way though, right?

[the-mighty-dalob]

I'm kinda with your Orb here...

Why do you even want scrolls at the beach?! Let alone that close to the waterline?

But alas, cover them in a thin layer of permanent air, that'll keep water, and well anything from touching the parchment.

[adderalltheblue]

Now now, go easy on the poor wizard. Sometimes people need to have scrolls in wet or humid environments.

And there's no need for such measures. If you for some reason can't make your scrolls out of better, less water soluble materials, a thin layer of wax can be applied to make it water-proof.

[oldmannewrobes]

If do you admire the aestethics of the dry old parchement scroll, and you're going for one of the more authentic options (or indeed, you have old parchment scrolls you wish to use), one rather elegant option is to enchant your gloves and carrying case with water-repelling. A moderatly skilled enchanter should be able to make the enchantment on the gloves cover whatever scroll you're holding, and unless your scrolls are truly unstable, a minor active enchantment like that is unlikely to influence your cast, though do consider spell interaction if your scroll is for any form of water magic.

[mr--zer0]

I've heard a lot about dragons, but I've never seen or studied them. Who understands them, may I ask a few questions:

Do dragons belong to reptiles or is it another class of animals?

And are all of them intelligent, or are there species with intelligence on the level of a turtle ?

do they spew flames with magic or some kind of organ?

[oldmannewrobes]

Dragon taxonomy is a path best not thread, I fear. All attempts at establishing a solid taxonomy has failed. Grand Sage Wickerstaff (the elder)'s work 'The Sage's Taxonomy of Dragons, Drakes and Dregs' is an oft referanced tome on the subject, and while it is a usefull starting point, as you dive into it, you'll find a rather startling number of contradictions and missclasifications. Once I learned that the North Sea Lesser Wyrm, classified in the Sage's Taxonomy as a member of the legg-less sub-clade of the north-western wyvern grouping, was, in truth, a monotereme, I decided to cease my study of the feild. The natural world oft eludes our desires to classify it, but the addition of magic to the mix has not simplified the matter of dragon taxonomy, to say the least. My best advice is to use the common descriptors and common names for dragons of all variation, and give up on any taxominal rigidity. A North Sea Lesser Wyrm is a wyrm in the same way a tomato is a vegetable and a strawberry is a berry. Unless you have a deep fascination for the finer details of taxonomy, do not delve any deeper into it than that. To answer your original questions, pardon my slight deviation, there are dragons in mamalia, reptilia, arthropoda, and other groups, as well as unique groups with nothing but magical creatures. There are dragons smarter than any living mortal, dragons as unthinking as coral, and the full spectrum between them. The firebreathing kinds use all manner of means to do so, direct magic, chemistry, alchemy, and other means. Some have special organs, others inate magical abilites, other re-use other organs. My favorite are the 'storage' dragons, in particular the the Nyiragongo Minutre Drake is fascinating. It's a small drake, about the size of a rat, and it does not so much breathe fire, as regurgitate magma. It's an amazingly efficent hunter, bringing down prey far far larger than it, since, well, few things can survive a glob of magma to the face. If you are further interested in the taxonomy of dragons, I recommend applying to view the taxonomy section of the Library of Alexandira over in the fire-realm. They've been quite dilligent in keeping their records on dragons up to date, as far as I can tell.

[cluster-fandom]

Wizards, witches, and other magic users. What is the absolute smallest length a wand can be? I’m trying to prove a point.

[the-mighty-dalob]

I mean... considering one can also just forgo any casting implement if they so wish...

I'd say even the stub of a pencil counts.

The Real question is, how long can a wand be before most mages would consider it a staff?

[adderalltheblue]

Wand: The length of your forearm.

Rod: The length of a cane.

Staff: The length/height of a wizard.

[oldmannewrobes]

I mostly agree. If you can't hold it in your hand fully, and have it extend at least half your hand's width past your hand, that's not a wand, thats a charm. If you can rest your elbow on a table, with your forearm vertical, set your wand next to it, and have the wand be taller than your closed fist, that's not a wand, its a rod. If you can stand your rod on the ground, yourself stand next to it, and it reaches your ribs, I'd say that's staff terretory, though I could be amicable to discussion if you wish to call that a rod still. If your staff if more than half again as tall as you, that's not a staff, you're casting spells with a gods damned pike, you lunatic.