>The party encounters the most stereotypical-looking wizard possibleHow worried should you be, generally?
>>97167687Very. He's powerful and either terrifyingly competent, or terrifyingly incompetent.
It’s probably an alien cosplaying as the wizardly trope.
>>97167687Wizards and homeless guys look an awful lot alike. How can you be sure?
>>97167687There is no wizard stereotype in my game, so how would my party encounter one?
>>97167687For fun I decided to make the most powerful archmage in my setting look exactly like the most stereotypical wizard possible, with a long white beard, pointy hat, and robes emblazoned with star patterns. In-setting, that's become the stereotype for how wizards look because of him.He's a nice enough guy, though more concerned with doing magical research than using his powers to fight evil or something. Though he will give useful magical items to heroes who happen to stumble on his teleporting tower (which has a chance to appear as a wilderness random encounter).
>>97167687I go up to him and go>Puff smoke in his faceYour no archmage, I challenge your bitch ass to a duel!>Then proceed to get utterly obliviated into a pile of ash because the DM wasn't in a nice mood that day
>>97167687Isn’t this how most wizards look in Dee en Dee?
>>97167687Depends on the game. You DO play traditional games, RIGHT?
>>97167687However much he wants me to.
>>97167687I ask him to conjure me a wife.
>>97167687I ask him to conjure me a knife
>>97167687depends on what system. which is?
>>97167708So like Gandalf?
>>97167970God, no. How dreadful.
>>97169259Gandalf was an angel, not an alien.
>>97167739>Absolute gameless takePost campaign notes
>>97167687My PC rapes and eats him, just like every other wizard. He isn't named Johnny Rapesandeatswizards for nothing.
>>97169373Angels are aliens anon.
>>97167739What a vapid non-answer. Do you feel smarter?
>>97169533Did he get a legal name change for his career or were his parents really sure of what their kid would end up doing in life?
>>97169566it's a granted title
>>97169566That sounds like wizard talk to me, boy.
>>97169550If you have a problem with vapid things, you should have a huge problem with this thread.
>>97169535Lies.
>>97167687It only happened a couple of times to me, and it was explicitly DM's attempt to either make a Gandalf figure, or a parody of the Gandalf figure. The rest of times wizards are either middle-aged backstabbing scumbags with goatees, or surly, buxom witches. An old greybeard is a rare sight.
>>97167687I don't really like to soobvert and gotcha my players so very. If the world is the "standard" d&d fantasy mileu then meeting a fellow old enough to grow a long white beard while still being (visibly) human AND still walking around without visibile ailments is all you need to know that he can probably effortlessly wipe the floor with your body, approach him with caution if you must.
>>97167687Extremely. If they're going around dressed as the most stereotypical wizard possible, they're incredibly powerful and fully confident in it, to the point they don't care if people identify them because they know it doesn't matter.
>>97167687They are likely in as much danger as they've ever been, so the worry level should be equivalent to a pack of rampaging giants or a roaring dragon.
He brought the kender
