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Brockton Bay's Marvelous Mage

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Enhancing once's physical container is literally step one!

Stop trying to be a glass cannon! it makes no sense!

You have rituals now! stop going to step 47 when you need to start at the beginning! peak human is minimum dammit!
 
Wizard vibes activate! Hopefully the staff will be good for more than just combat, and can be used to supe up rituals too.
 
ritual to enhance intelligence, senses, dexterity, and fine muscle control, and speed. this way he can design and create rituals faster.
 
tri2 said:
....could he spend points on harry potter magic?
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No, he is tapping into an original magic system. That said, he could use the idea of them to help focus the direction of a subject. For example, he could look for a subject called banish evil, and use the idea of a patronus, or the song of a phoenix. there's no guarantees he would get anything close to them, but it would help him focus on what concepts he was looking for.
 
Zackman2k12 said:
Enhancing once's physical container is literally step one!

Stop trying to be a glass cannon! it makes no sense!

You have rituals now! stop going to step 47 when you need to start at the beginning! peak human is minimum dammit!
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Though I would expect that enhancment of the more permanent kind would be an area of its own, simply because to do it there are many, many 'parts' to enhance and I can imagine many ways to do each.
The eyes for example. You could simply exchange them for better ones-> natural ones (animals)-> combining many traits of animal eyes?/One set that is boosted somehow?// boost your own ->pure magic-> elemental of some kind?/ 'arcane'?// sacrifice (animal) eyes for your own?/some other way?// some other way
You can't just expect something complex like that to just be with standard ritual craft
 
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MetaBettaOmega said:
No, he is tapping into an original magic system. That said, he could use the idea of them to help focus the direction of a subject. For example, he could look for a subject called banish evil, and use the idea of a patronus, or the song of a phoenix. there's no guarantees he would get anything close to them, but it would help him focus on what concepts he was looking for.
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So, and hear me out here, if he reaches into that new bag of ritual knowledge looking for something like, I don't know, voodoo curses?

Because you can do an awful lot to someone with their body parts and Hookwolf tends to leave a lot of his blades laying around...
 
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MetaBettaOmega said:
No, he is tapping into an original magic system. That said, he could use the idea of them to help focus the direction of a subject. For example, he could look for a subject called banish evil, and use the idea of a patronus, or the song of a phoenix. there's no guarantees he would get anything close to them, but it would help him focus on what concepts he was looking for.
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so he could get summoning magic and start summoning things from other universes?
 
MetaBettaOmega said:
Ritual curses might very well be an option, it's whether or not he thinks of them. That said, voodoo rituals are unique enough that most of the concept would probably be something seperate
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Curse them to have an unscratchable itch, or to have any food or drink taste bland forevermore. There are some very creative minor curses out there that can make someone's existence miserable without needing to get into the big leagues like the Midas touch.
tri2 said:
MC proceeds to buy dolls of his enemies and starts placing listerine strips on their eyes :V
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Or Tiger Balm in their nutsack, guaranteed agony.
Foxy Boxes said:
Real heros play with their dolls!
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Yeah, I'm sure they can find a torturer's starter kit somewhere to play with.
 
The main character is making the literal worst possible choices. The process of being strong in any setting with unlimited choices in what to gain types of magic
is: 1. Get magic 2.enhance Strength/speed of the Mind, enhance the strength, durability, speed, reaction, perception of the body, 3. add esoteric senses, 4, get normal spells, Get companions/spirits to help you. You went step 5 and then 4 first, then you went a mix of 1 and 3+4, and then you went 4 again. WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! I can't freaking read this anymore, if he and this setting was real he'd be dead by a gunshot or a lot more injured! you can't heal yourself if you are ALREADY DEAD.
 
Shadeworld said:
Curse them to have an unscratchable itch, or to have any food or drink taste bland forevermore. There are some very creative minor curses out there that can make someone's existence miserable without needing to get into the big leagues like the Midas touch.

Or Tiger Balm in their nutsack, guaranteed agony.
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increasingly increased bad luck curse every day being worse than the last
 
Shadow Archon said:
...aaaand? He's got his familiar who can wake him up, and he lives in an abandoned locked building.

For a person with limited funds and magic, not much else he can do about that.
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1 charge in applied ritual theory, 1 charge in human-physical enhancement rituals, 1 charge in ritual enhancement theory, 1 charge in human-household construction rituals, 1 charge in material transmutation, 1 charge in human-related-permanent-biological-enhancement magic.

Way more specific, and way more breadth. he gets EVERYTHING he wants and all of them build on each-other. those are 6 charges.

there are a billion different ways that he could be even MORE specific and get EVEN MORE of what he wants.
 
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Zackman2k12 said:
1 charge in ritual theory, 1 charge in human-physical enhancement rituals, 1 charge in ritual enhancement theory, 1 charge in human-household construction rituals, 1 charge in material transmutation, 1 charge in human-related-permanent-biological-enhancement magic.

Way more specific, and way more breadth. he gets EVERYTHING he wants and all of them build on each-other. those are 6 charges.
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Do you expect one charge deep into these fields to give him the tools to start a self-improvement loop?

What if there is no human-related-permanent-biological-enhancement magic in this original magic setting? That the author created?

I don't see how any of your choices have any more breadth than ritual design and crafting.
 
Shadow Archon said:
Do you expect one charge deep into these fields to give him the tools to start a self-improvement loop?

What if there is no human-related-permanent-biological-enhancement magic in this original magic setting? That the author created?

I don't see how any of your choices have any more breadth than ritual design and crafting.
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it digs into the multiverse doesn't it? if not I've been reading something I didn't mean to.

What I thought I was reading: MC uses a magical version of Inspired Inventor that takes from the multiverse. The more specific the request, the better the quality. The less specific, the bigger the breadth.
 
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