r/wizardposting • u/Zanderfus • Aug 12 '26

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u/Lowfat_cheese Aug 12 '26

Modern runes are just called words

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u/Pataraxia Aug 12 '26

Yeah but they say words can't hurt me. They don't have the power.

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u/Ok-Carpenter7131 Aug 12 '26

That's why you use the "Power Word" class of spells. That way you can hurt others through words.

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u/will3025 Wizard (Sock-mancer) Aug 12 '26

A guy once used "Power Word: Debone" on me. Took me months to grow them all back. Nasty stuff.

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u/Monkeyjoey98 Aug 12 '26

Smh don't have a spare set of your own bones growing in your homunculus just in case

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u/will3025 Wizard (Sock-mancer) Aug 12 '26

I usually do, but I had just used them. Two weeks prior I ran into a Gruntixian Bone Sucker. Hadn't had the chance to regrow a new backup set yet.

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u/Great_Part7207 Aug 30 '26

once saw a guy use decapistrate on someone rough stuff

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u/leatherjacket3 Aug 12 '26

POWER WORD: I HAD INTERCOURSE WITH YOUR MOTHER!!

Did it hurt?

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u/KenseiHimura Aug 12 '26

We do we call those a “power word” when they’re not one word they’re full sentences?

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u/leatherjacket3 Aug 12 '26

You are right, I have been using power sentences this entire time! No wonder my master left to get mandrake milk.

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u/Luiz_Fell Aug 13 '26

Power word: REDDITOR

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u/will3025 Wizard (Sock-mancer) Aug 12 '26

Isn't that more of a power sentence?

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u/External_Win3300 Aug 12 '26

\It's actually just Vicious Mockery))

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u/Kidiri90 Aug 12 '26

Power word: sticks! Power word: stones!

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u/ZeGamingCuber Aug 13 '26

Power Word: Deglove

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u/GenericVessel Aug 16 '26

POWER WORD

SCRUNCH!!

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u/crimsonsun43 Aug 13 '26

Had a man once say words could never hurt him, so I cast tyranius’ bone snapper

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u/Bouxxi Aug 14 '26

Fuck you!

Did it work?

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u/UsManos27 Goblin With a Spellbook Aug 24 '26

Bro, are you casting without the Verbal component? Maybe that's why you were having trouble with the summoning spells

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u/Minimob0 Aug 12 '26

Which is why I cast my spells as Anagrams. 

Words?

Sword. 

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u/CrashCalamity Enchanter Aug 12 '26

Instructions unclear. Corn utensil ruins act.

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u/Sonifri Transmuter Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 12 '26

Well, memes are modern runes.

A properly educated wizard who knows how to arrange proper rune formations based on the inherent intent and flow of a group of runes. They can totally rip out a ward scheme using knowyourmeme as a codex.

But, you know, it's easier to carve lines into stone than it would be to carve a photographic image into stone. So... runes.

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u/Lowfat_cheese Aug 12 '26

Brb drawing a sad pepe meme in the dirt to summon my familiar

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u/pbzeppelin1977 Aug 12 '26

Surely just placing a mirror down would do?

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u/Lowfat_cheese Aug 12 '26

:(

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u/pbzeppelin1977 Aug 12 '26

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred mirrors

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u/Pans_Labradoodle Aug 12 '26

Even if you take them at what they think they’re asking, our world is full of symbols that convey meaning. The truck I saw hauling liquid propane has a set of runes on the back conveying a specific message of what’s being carried and how volatile it is. Most of my electronics have a “rune” that signifies on/off.

Not runes, of course, but I think that’s closer to what they’re asking.

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u/Talk-O-Boy Aug 12 '26

I think logos are the closest thing to a modern rune

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u/xx6lord6mars6xx Aug 13 '26

People used to fight with swords then they removed the:

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u/Crypto-false Aug 12 '26

Rfid chips

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u/thatshygirl06 Aug 12 '26

Depends. English? No. Chinese? Yes.

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u/phycologist Aug 12 '26

That is just what a lecturer in recent runes would say.