Just imagine if "sign in the sky" can be taken in more ways then just star sign. Aka SUDDEN METEOR SWARM!
We probably don't need a Lord Magister for this, but shelling out for a Magister when we take that action seems very worth it. The biggest problem, as I see it, is that Boney is so good at character writing that whoever shows up to help us may add competition for one of our limited social turn slots!
Though translating that to underground coordinates might be difficult, it should work OK for an initial start at digging (if this is for the BOÖK mining)
2e's spellbook for Amber Wizards is garbage. Celestial Wizards get rerolls, divination, attack spells, and actually good flight. There's some junk in there like Polish, Clean, and Gleam, but the lore as a whole is solid.
True, so that should work. I still like my idea of of "if celestial wizard can not be reached, try more insistent methods" and then a meteor falls from the sky to show you the way....directly.
Yeah, we already have Zlata and Grunfeld as people we want to check in with, plus whatever recruits we may be getting this turn, and I still want to get up to date with Kasmir. Even with the wedding clearing several things off the list, we're still stuck in action hell.
The actual divinations suck. Vague feelings about the future are never that great, especially when you're playing a game where events are determined by dice rolls. Flight also sucks, I don't know what you're talking about. It's a full action to cast, and lets you fly for a number of minutes equal to your magic characteristic. If you're a Magister Lord, that's four minutes. It also has a difficulty value of 18, making it extraordinarily difficult for its mediocre effect. Rerolls are nice and all, but you're overestimating how good the combat spells are.
Plus all of our followup actions on skaven tech donations, checking in on our fief, saying hi to the We... I expect the social turn voting to be more bitter than the regular turn vote.
Reminds me of how at pre-Battle Magic levels, Lights are better healers than Jades.
I think it makes a little more sense than that. Light Magic is about Purity, Harmony, Enlightenment, Clarity etc. and while I very much understand the poison/disease purging spells, I'm still miffed that they have a healing spell and Jades do not pre-BM wise (technically speaking Jades have a personal healing spell that doesn't apply to others). At least with Beast magic you can justify it by saying that birds are an animal and they're a pretty weak one, so it's easy to turn into them. Beast Magic wants you to be an animal and return to the primordial ooze of existence.
Flight's awesome. A single minute of flight is a significant amount at Movement 6. You can trivially go up to high and otherwise inaccessible places with absolute ease, become immune to fall damage and potentially immune to melee, gain full freedom to strike any target on the battlefield you want, get a high point of view for searching and scouting, and lets you easily run away from most fights where you have the sky above you. It's one of the best utility spells in the game.
You also lose your ability to speak, which is bad for a normal person, but for a wizard it also means you can't cast or dispel. This too is bad enough on its own, but since you can't dispel, you can't turn the spell off when you want and so you're stuck in bird form for a full hour.
The Talking Beast covers this:
Also, coming back to this, there's a lot wrong with this.
A minute is six rounds of combat. Most fights finish around and before that time. WoH isn't the best when you're caught off guard, but very few spells are; getting surprised always sucks. Getting out of reach takes a single round - just fly up. It is a problem if you fly up too high and the spell runs out, but it's not the only spell requiring a modicum of wisdom to use; in similar vein, if you let yourself be in the AoE of an explosion spell, you'll be hurt too.
Try it and find out.
Actually due to how WFRP does movement, you can move up and away at the same time.
