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Can you please turn me into a worm for 24 hours? I’m trying to prove a point.

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I may be new to this whole wizardry thing, but I can try?

(although I might not be able to change you back)

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"As such, I am going to personally slight a powerful wizard and place him right outside the castle while remaining safe forever."

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THE WIZARD COUNCIL ARE UNREASONABLE. SINCE WHEN WAS THERE A LIMIT ON TOWER HEIGHT

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It may seem unreasonable, but if you actually think about it, these arbitrary rules that are all over the place are a means to oppress and control wizards that are not members of their council.

Because are they affected? No, of course not, they grow their towers in extradimensional space. That is a process that's very costly in MANA, and requires difficult spells. They are in the council though, so they have access to enough MANA to do whatever they want, and their library (which they don't share) has a near endless supply of spells.

A new wizard though? they're building their tower. They can't attract new spellbooks if they don't have a grand library, and they can't gather enough MANA for difficult spells like PLANE SHIFT without large devices to gather it or huge crystals to store it. Where will they put all those grand libraries and MANA gathering apparatus? In their tower. But if they're not allowed to have a large tower, which the council forbids, then they just. Can't.

And they are forced to stay small time wizards forever, or lick the boots of the Grand Council until they lend them enough MANA and sell them the spells, putting them in HUGE debt.

The rules are not arbitrary, the system is just corrupt as fuck. That's why i say, ABOLISH THE GRAND COUNCIL

Are there any laws on depth though, couldn't you just, build it downwards?

Hey so can I be a cowboy wizard

Or is that against like wizard rules or something

Can I cast rootin' tootin' shootin' (literally just a revolver)

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Should be fine with the guild of wizards as long as you don’t publish any specific theorems on gun magic.

I don't believe I'm intelligent enough to publish theorems on anything

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Hey so can I be a cowboy wizard

Or is that against like wizard rules or something

Can I cast rootin' tootin' shootin' (literally just a revolver)

Anyone who claims wizard rules exist is either a charlatan or an authoritarian; in either case, ignore them. The Ritual of Gunpowder is a well-understood rite for one-off force effects such as the ones traditionally used to propel bullets, and the use of cowboy hats as wizard attire was recently popularised by noted sorcerer Doug Dimmadome (owner of the Dimmsdale Dimmadome)

However, you may benefit from upgrading your incantation to Rooty Tooty Point 'n' Shooty.

Thanks, I'll be addin that to my arsenal, any chance you'd be knowing of any other wild wizard spells for rootin and tootin

I'm not an expert in this area, but you'll probably want Summon Dramatic Tumbleweed and Charm Livestock at a minimum. Spells like Astral Steed and Animate Rope might be adaptable to your needs depending on your aesthetic, and there's a few generic enhancers like True Shot that have fairly obvious applications. Weapon enchantments and the like should have no problems working on your standard revolver (and/or relevant ammunition) either.

Truth be told though, cowboy wizardry is still a bit of an, erm, wild west area of practice. You might have some luck adapting fantasy staples like Ten Thousand Arrows to your weapons of choice, or even tweaking the classic Fireball with a more whiskey-and-dynamite style approach.

As a final note: While the tower is a vaunted wizard dwelling for good reason, there's no reason someone in your position couldn't choose an Arcane Ranch as their base of operations and/or hermitry instead (magic cattle optional but recommended)

Best of luck, whatever you decide!

hey so I was thinkin', could I perhaps imbue bullets with spells so I can shoot someone and then the spell'd activate

Absolutely! There's a ton of possible approaches (and as with almost everything you'll eventually end up with a personalised one) but broadly speaking they can be sorted into two categories: Runecraft (where you physically mark the bullet in some way) and enchanting (where you don't)

You probably won't be able to make use of the full suite of runecraft since a bullet is both small and prone to microwarping when fired, which limits the resolution you can get. You'll also need to be careful with trigger conditions; you need simple ones due to the lack of space, but you don't want anything that gets set off by the firing process. However, you get better long-term stability and consistency; once you have a formula that works, you should be able to carve up a batch of shots and leave them for a year or more and they'll still behave more or less as expected.

Enchanting is less precise and on something as small as a bullet is liable to fade over time, but the prep time tends to be lower (once you get good you might even be able to do it as you fire for simple stuff!) and the actual effect is limited only by your power and imagination. It's a lot easier to get the spell to do exactly what you want it to, but the flipside is there's no filter between your thoughts and the effect; you'll almost certainly get slightly different results each time, and you don't get the "fire and forget" convenience associated with runic ammunition unless you explicitly enchant for it (which is harder than just doing it with a rune).

There's a school of thought that says runes are just anchoring and/or "training wheels" for enchantments, but then there's one that says enchantments are just aetheric runes too so it's probably more a pissing contest between rival disciplines than any reflection of the underlying reality. Personally I'd start with whichever one makes more sense to you; enchanting is easier to "just do" and get something to happen, but runecrafting generally offers a more structured beginner process. You could call it art vs. science and you'd only be mostly wrong.

Lastly, there IS the option of casting on the gun itself; this basically trades off versatility for reliability and effect strength for longevity (i.e. weaker and more standardized spells, but more of them with consistency of effect). You can do interesting things by applying magic to both gun and bullet, but that starts getting complex; I'd recommend sticking with just the ammo until you get more of a feel for it.

could I possibly put a rune on a bullet, then enchant it too, for instance havin' the enchantment triggering the rune

That's essentially multilayering, which is where you apply multiple distinct effects to a single object. It's...difficult to do with a small object, and even harder with multiple disciplines; it'd be easier to apply two runes or two enchantments than one of each, for example. You can mitigate the downsides of each approach by combining them, but it's not a shortcut to power; you're essentially trading off the upsides, too. You don't get long-lasting ammo since the enchantment wears off, and you don't get full flexibility since the rune dictates some of the effect. Plus you do have to manage interactions between the two castings, which could honestly be a whole subject in itself.

That said, I absolutely encourage you to explore it if it interests you. While I would recommend starting with one or the other for your absolute first forays into the topic, slapping your first rune and first enchantment onto one bullet and observing the interactions is the exact sort of exercise I'd propose for someone looking to dive deeply into this subject. Plus it's relatively unexplored territory (experts in either field tend to think their approach is just better in every way), so who knows? Maybe you discover something new about how it works.

Honestly the definitions of the two schools are so broad that some people argue they're literally the same thing approached from different directions anyway, so getting into the guts of how it actually works is something I definitely recommend. Just don't forget your safety sigils, and make sure you have a handle on the basics before doing anything TOO wild.

hello my good friend, sorry to bother you once again, but I was wondering if I could possibly imbue my bullets with potions, I thought of it randomly whilst pondering my orb and thought it might be a good idea, but wanted a second opinion

Interesting thought, but I'm honestly not sure why you'd want to. Usually you store an effect in a potion for later use, so moving the effect into a bullet via a potion will generally just be less efficient than putting it into the bullet directly.

That said, it might be good for mass production; I can imagine brewing up a whole cauldron of something nasty and then just leaving your ammo to soak overnight.

Just don't try and make healing bullets. It's not worth it, trust me.

well I didn't think runes or enchants would be worth it due to the size causing problems, and then I thought potions might work cause they're kinda similar and then the effects would just happen on contact without any need for some specific rune triggers.

I also thought about using some form of unbreaking spell on the bullets to combat warping, and perhaps putting different materials inside the bullet to give it special properties. I didn't have anything specific in mind, for a few minutes I thought "what if I put sands of time in a bullet to freeze whatever I shoot" but that sounds needlessly dangerous.

and I guess silver bullets are always useful in case of Werewolves or Vampires

Yeah you might actually prefer the potion approach in that case; it'll limit what effects you can use, but if you want the same effect on a lot of your shots it's probably the way to go.

Unbreaking is unlikely to be worth it on single-use items. If you're gonna get into using different materials then I'd recommend checking out alchemy; likely to leave you with a decent supply of silver, too.

I haven't worked with Sands of Time personally, but I don't think it's particularly reactive? You'd need specialised ammunition to load it into though (both so you don't risk touching it when loading the shot and so the bullet doesn't stop ITSELF) and it's pretty expensive, so make every shot count.

I was going to suggest alchemy but I don't exactly know what alchemy specifically is, and it seems pretty hard to perform from what I can see

One thing you'll learn is that disciplines are very broad and get blurry at the edges. Alchemy is broadly speaking just the conversion of one substance into another; a lot of people count potion brewing, some people count converting the same substance into a different form, etc.

If you're interested in that general area of practice, the traditional way to start is to just focus on magically observing the differences between different things. The idea is that from there you can work out how to turn one thing into another (though there is often a fair bit of trial and error...) and it snowballs from there.

Actually, transmuting your (presumably) lead bullets to silver is a decent exercise; easier than gold but still challenging, and with a useful end product.

I'm assuming there's some form of Equivalent Exchange laws to alchemy? I can't exactly create something from nothing .

but now you've got my cogs spinning so to speak, like what if I made bullets that change form at the moment of impact, or even midair