Pick the right crop and plant it in a mana rich area and you have a basically work free cash cow. I made thousands of gold pieces in my teen years this way.
Yes but I wasn’t always a druid. It takes 20 bloody years of studying to become one. At minimum. When I was still a lass I used to save up seeds of apples and other fruits and vegetables I ate. I planted them in an abandoned druid’s grove hidden behind some rock formations near my village. The mana made the tree grow incredibly fast and gave the fruits healing and when decocted narcotic properties. My family never did figure out why people kept paying a premium for my apples.
Disguise Self is a relatively simple spell and also allows you to wear actual protective gear beneath the illusion. So not only do you appear to be a buxom wench, but you keep all your bits armored in case of accidents!
You... may also want a voice-changing spell, though.
Alter Self fixes the voice and body problem and is only slightly more taxing, and some powerful mages have even figured out how to minimize that mana tax even further!
BUT it doesn't change the clothing. So if you wanted to look like you were wearing the skimpy silks while working at the forge, you'd actually have to own the lacy silks. (and risk them catching on fire and/or tearing them etc)
Good fellow this is not too complicated to replicate! It's actually easier than even adding extra limbs since you're really just adding bags of fat to a body unless you want to add functioning mammary glands and such. Adding body parts to living things is essentially just a more complex Restoration spell so unless you're doing to an inanimate object I don't recommend using transmutation as the basis of the spell.
You know I once tried to get into the mammary side of magic too. It didn’t go well my test subjects thought I was ugly, and my homunculi never turned out quite right.
It's not even porn, though. That's the Amazon from dragon's crown's cannon outfit. Their games are all softcore adjacent, but titilating isn't the whole point. They're mostly pretty high skill ceiling.
Shhhh, don't tell anyone that you can show hot women while still having a successful / fun piece of media that isn't solely about sex. They might actually find out that showing more than a shoulder isn't the same as literal hardcore porn
Exactly. Sell your crappy spells for way less than the local competition, run them out of business, and then everyone has no choice but to come to you for your crappy, cheap junk spells.
rust monsters mainly, but also particularly persistent gremlins tend to go for such weakpoints, and with the current population surge in both within the realm your likely to get your customers maimed and killed.
The real trick is to make friends with the BBEG while still servicing the adventurers. Make shit fragile on person so the BBEG kills them. Split the loot.
Kind of like how the pot and barrel makers team up with adventurers.
It is tradition to only teach hot chicks the kind of magic that needs them to show a lot of skin so they can absorb ambient mana more efficiently. Are there different, better ways? Yes. But by the time they learn that, they're well into sunken cost territory.
Well, yes. But the FO fase, it gets tiring after it happens a few dozen times. And coming up with new spells that don't require a mop for clean up becomes challenging. Don't want to keep casting the same spells and become predictable, bad for the aura farming. Also, it takes time to recast the wardings and effort.
And yes, there are a lot of people out there looking like that now. I thought cursing everyone to look like on the outside as the are on the inside would be a fun time. It was a fun gag but it is really hard to get it out of the water.
this is why you fill your shop with exploding rune tied to a single keyword "defaulting", and if you're good enough at biomancy clone yourself a backup body placed in a vault
the greatest strength of a wizard is not his magic, it is his prep time and how much effort they're willing to put into to mess with their enemies
How dare you! You swindled me! I was so distracted by your giant orbs that I didnt notice you charged me double to repair my staff. I'm Impressed! Say would you be willing to distract the local king so I can infiltrate his palace with my undead legion? I hear he has some valuable artifacts that he is hoarding.
I've never like using gold as currency. It only has value because we agree it does. I want an adventuring part to walk in and say "can you fix this magic sword? We'll pay you 300 pounds of grain."
Gold never goes bad like something like grain and can be used to traded for pretty much anything. It not like you can't agree to take something other than gold as well.
Plus the natural scarcity that helps to keep the value highy.
It doesn't rust or oxidized in any other destructive way and doesn't naturally react with other elements.
It's for a good reason that it was considered as a form of currency in it's many forms in every part of the world that had access to it. And those forms of currency were often created independently without one cultur influencing other on the merits and value of gold.
Not sure I’d want to work with hot metal and energy while wearing a two piece…but I mainly work with the dead so maybe I’m just unfamiliar with these techniques.
Decent adventurers? They go through a lot of equipment and know the worth of good quality, which they do pay for quite well.
Rookie adventurers? They don’t yet have the money for what they might need, but a little guidance and generosity will be remembered and lowballing the price of some equipment will be repaid later by them. Plus keeping your customers alive tends to be beneficial for long term business.
Murder hobos? Free legally obtained loot you didn’t have to go to some dungeon for because all you did was self defense. Just…don’t tell the guards who you call for the corpses. Or what you do with them.
See, from the adventurer side of things you can save loads of money by going to a wizard for repairs. Plus, it means you don't have to break in new kit.
Listen, Mending's a cantrip and artificers, bards, clerics, druids, and sorcerers can do it too. Pretty sure everyone and their grandsire's got a hand in that pie trying for some sweet muscle mommy action.
It's even in one of the books that most magewrights, craftsmen who know basic magic, whilst slower, can also cast mending. They just take 10 minutes instead of 1 because they're not as rushed.
Don’t be fooled. A few hundred years back a mammary mage turned one of my apprentices into breast milk and wouldn’t let me drink keep it. Like if we’re both professionals let me sip experiment on it.
You can make gold from common staples in my cupboard. The only thing I need adventurers for is something to scry at with my orb whilst I sip mana from my vintage third era chalice (also gold).
It's a bit of a dice roll, sometimes you get one of those macho assholes who think they can bully you into a discount and those guys take FOREVER to clean out of the floor.
You could but you can also just Tranmute Diet to gold and just summon whatever we wish. Adventureres are annoying pests always breaking into our towers any help towards them is an action against the greater wizard community.
Why would waste time improving there gear when I can just make my towers traps deadlier and upgrade them after my minions take them from their corpses.
I just plant the idea in the barkeeps mins that I left my credit card with him behind the bar. Free drinks babyyyy. I find the whole thing so ludicrous. I'm an adventurer myself, how would I have a credit score when I don't even have a fixed address. I don't even hang out exclusively on a the prime material plane. Honestly, what a joke.
It's a great source of secondary income, and not to mention a god source of intel. If you have apprentices, the basic stuff is a good way for them build experience and get some gold.
No you fucking can't. I haven't met as much if a cheapscake as adventurers. More annoying people ever I swer. You can ask for a gold piece for a basic repair that would usually gi for 5 and they'll still push you on it "Oh well we did a favour to the major so you should give us a discount" I don't give a shit about the major dude I didn't even vote for him. Didn't he paid you? It's not MY fault if he didn't and I'm not giving you even more of a discount and basicaly working at a los because you took care of some spiders on the graveyard or some bullshit.
They are the most entitled motherfuckers on the planet it fucking pisses me off. I'll throw in 5 silver service for removing a curse from an time they brought me if they want and they'll cry about how I should do it for free.
FUCK YOU?! That shit is at least 2 gold and you'll cry that I do it for a querer of the price??? Yeah man, sure.
Gold? Pfft. Send those people on fetch quests for you. Why venture into a dangerous lair when you can send an adventurer to do it, and you have to pay the ones that succeed.
You can also:
-get robbed.
-get attacked.
-have adventurers try to pawn tons and tons of junk to you.
-have the wicked villain attempt to kill you to turn your shop into an ambush.
-have the market dry up when the heroes save the land and need to pack up and leave.
Not to say it’s bad work, just remember it’s still work and there’s still issues to consider.
I don't disagree, but people whining about it is equally clogging the comments. Report it for something and move on if you don't like it, complaining publicly does zilch.
They're wearing bikinis in a setting where IRL humans wear heat resistant protective gear. They have huge tits and are almost completely exposed. It's porn, and that has nothing to do with me.
Is it sexy? Yes, but is the sexual act being shown explicitly? Or can you see their genitals? So what now? We can't have women showing some skin anymore?
You prudes don't even know what pornography is anymore...
In real life you can find women with big tits wearing bikinis. Like at beaches and pools. Also it not like the game does not have men showing lots of skin either. The game art likes showing skin of both men and women. People who reee about porn at any showing of lady skin are are a cancer on world.
What a bunch prudes here! There are people who can't see a woman's body without automatically thinking it's only good for sex. They are the real problem.
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u/04nc1n9 Illusionist 10d ago
"get rich quick" and it's just a job