>The wizard has a face full of scars Why would a wizard have

Muscle wizard. Duh.

Ritual scarring to cast one of their spells
Scarring from when his master beat him with a chair leg as a young wizard in training
Scarring from when his party's paladin "exorcised" him with a chair leg last year
Scarring from being mauled by a magic-resistant dog

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>>49748297
>late on feeding familiar
>kitty wants food now!

>>49748297

His crystal ball exploded and gave him a faceful of glass.

He picked a cat familiar and tried to give it a bath, but didn't pick up prestidigitation as a cantrip.

>>49748297
>What's supposed to happen is what always happens.

You know how I can tell you don't play games.

>>49748297
Many sneaky monsters are good at getting to the back or catching isolated adventurers. Alternatively, encounters with traps missed by more perceptive fellows, or unfortunate magical backlash from a botched spell.

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>>49748297
>Why would a wizard have scars?

>got hit in melee despite his meatshield's best efforts
>roughed up on his way home
>his master used to beat him with a belt when he failed to cast a spell. Some days master gets drunk, angry, takes out his knife instead
>domestic abuse
>wasn't always a wizard. Once was a gang-member, a bandit, even a guard or soldier.
>lived through some rough times, wasn't one of those ivory tower bitches born with a spellbook in his mouth
>no money, had to live in a dangerous neighborhood while learning to cast
>served time to jail, crossed the wrong guy, got cut


Use your imagination.

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>>49748297
Because radiation shielding is for pussies.

>>49748297
>Why would a wizard have scars? They're supposed to stay in the back.
Oh you KNOW those must have one hell of a story attached to them.

>>49748297

>Not being a wizard with a ridiculous amount of health

>Not drawing the blood from your victims to heal yourself

>Not spilling your own blood to spill the enemies

Blood mage life

>>49748297
>Why would a wizard have scars? They're supposed to stay in the back.
It took them a while to figure that out.

>>49748297
Arrows.

>>49748297
What setting are you even talking about?

>>49749120
This anon gets it

>>49748297
Magical explosions, spell malfunctions. Perfecting magic takes time, and a hell of a lot of trial and error.

>>49748336
>not scarring from being mauled by a magic-resistant chair

>>49748297
>Meanwhile, half the human freshman class just exploded, but the rest can cast fireball!
>half the human freshman class just exploded
IT ALL MAKES SENSE!

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>>49750134

Anon, how do programmers typically look?
The wizard has a face full of scars because they had a really bad case of acne.

>>49748297
Summoned a succubus, didn't go his way.

Wizard cast grease and slipped.

>>49750598
>>49750687
Summoned a succubus, cast grease and it didn't go his way

>>49748297
>They're supposed to stay in the back.

Have you heard about arrows? They've been around for a while.

>>49748297
True Story: His party of loyal meatshields did the sensible thing by dodging and ducking a powerful ranged attack.
The wizard did not.

The wizard threw a fireball in a room full of sharp implements.

>>49750784
I've seen so many players struggle with fireball etiquette. Once I had a guy who wasn't exactly new to playing Pathfinder, but he was new to playing a spellcaster. I guess he was also a bit coddled by relatively consequence free video games. Long story short, he decided to throw a fireball at a group of thugs who drew swords on our party to get back a stolen artifact. I tried to point out the obvious flaw in the plan, but my DM chose to ignore me and let the wizard learn his lesson to everyone else's detriment. The tavern obviously caught fire, very quickly, which soon spread to neighboring houses. Nobody died, but we were obviously run out of town, and our paladin was this close to ratting him out to the authorities.

>>49748297
Wizards have high intelligence and high wisdom, but they have low strength and low dexterity. Therefore, they are clumsy, fall down from from their bicycles, fall down when climbing trees, get balls smashed in their faces by young fighters, etc.

>>49748297
Industrial accident involving acidic steam.

>>49748297
He fell down some stairs.

>>49748297
My shadowrun wizard has a face full of burn scars because he likes fire far more than is good for him.

>>49748648
>domestic abuse
I'm sorry, but a MAN who can REND THE FABRIC OF SPACE AND TIME gets beat up by a bitch? I'm sorry, that just breaks my immersion.

>>49750837
Fireball never ingites things. Its an explosion.

>>49748973
Underrated

>>49751303
http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/coreRulebook/spells/fireball.html

>A fireball spell generates a searing explosion of flame that detonates with a low roar and deals 1d6 points of fire damage per caster level (maximum 10d6) to every creature within the area. Unattended objects also take this damage.

>The explosion creates almost no pressure.

The mechanics are the exact opposite of your understanding.

>>49748297
He's bad with knives.

>>49751329
>Unattended objects also take this damage

It really depends on what you take unattended to mean.

A wooden chair in an empty room will obviously catch fire. A chair with someone sitting in it won't. If you animate the chair, does it becoem a creature and therefore take damage eve if someone is sitting in it? Does merely keeping watch over an item count as having it be attended, or do you have to be touching it. How much attention do you have to be paying before something stops being unattended?

>>49751554
"Watch the Door" takes a whole new meaning.

>>49748297
Heroes was born with them.

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>The wizard has a face full of tattoos

>>49751668
He was

>>49748973
This fucker...

>>49748297
Was in a battle and got struck by arrows or fireballs or shrapnel.
Got attacked by a cutting spell.

>>49751554
>The fireball sets fire to combustibles and damages objects in the area.

It can't be more explicit than that.

>>49751890
That is not in the text you originally quoted. This is what that post says:


>A fireball spell generates a searing explosion of flame that detonates with a low roar and deals 1d6 points of fire damage per caster level (maximum 10d6) to every creature within the area. Unattended objects also take this damage.

>The explosion creates almost no pressure.

>>49748297
>They're supposed to stay in the back.
Drivers aren't supposed to crash their cars and be horribly maimed or killed in the process, but it still happens.

He's a fuckup who can't run out of the fire

>>49748297
His school of magic demands ritual scarification.

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>>49751292

Got mauled by an animal as a kid, tripped one day, fucked up his own fireball spell, got startled whilst doing magi/lose concentration somehow and it backfire, the possibilities are endless.

I mean, are you telling me that all snipers/spotters are lacking scars as well? And pilots? Just because you're not in the "direct" way of danger, doesn't mean you won't be there, either through the work or life.

[spoilers]The wizard actually used to be a fighter, and the scars are a testament to this. After coming close to almost dying in hand to hand comcbat, he decided that this was his future no more. This is also why he has a magically enhanced wooden leg[/spoiler]

>>49751292
Having superpowers doesn't magically stop you from being a white knight cuckold.

>nobody gets that this is a rincewind reference.

>>49748297
Maybe he caught a flask of acid to the face.

Someone got the bright idea of fucking up the reality warper first and beat the tar out of him because he's wearing a fucking bathrobe.

>>49751292
It could be any mixture of verbal, emotional, or spiritual abuse that drives the poor wizard to self-harm.

Words hurt too, anon.

>>49752296
>Words hurt too
As any wizard well knows.

>>49752296
Then he deserves it if he can't figure out the what, level 3? level 4? The spells for his qq depression and qq anxiety and qq whatever else tumblr said is okay for him to self diagnose.

>>49751093
>wizard
>high wisdom
Right

>>49751890
You are entirely right. I completely missed the part where Pathfinder decided to change that part of one of the most iconic D&D spells when they hijacked it.

>>49751292
He can do that now. But could he do that then ?

>>49752339
If he EVER became a good enough wizard, yes, yes he could do that then.

>>49752325
Heh... Nothin' personnel... kid

>>49748297
He used to deal with shady crooks in the capital supplying them with magical help with problems, and one time he accidentally crossed the mafia don so the don sent some goons around to teach him a lesson.

>>49748297
apparently the consensus is that he was a worthless mundane beta who suddenly gained REALITY SHAKING POWERS and is not a supervillain already

>>49752410
This. He could have gained the scars before he turned 30

>>49748350
>kitten is angry, kitten is offended

>>49751983
Yes. And what does fire do anon?

>>49752338
>Explanation/Description: A fireball is an explosive burst of flame, which detonates with a low roar, and delivers damage proportionate to the level of the magic-user who cast it, i.e. 1 six-sided die (d6) for each level of experience of the spell caster. Exception: Magic fireball wands deliver 6 die fireballs (6d6), magic staves with this capability deliver 8 die fireballs, and scroll spells of this type deliver a fireball of from 5 to 10 dice (d6 + 4) of damage. The burst of the fireball does not expend a considerable amount of pressure, and the burst will generally conform to the shape of the area in which it occurs, thus covering an area equal to its normal spherical volume. [The area which is covered by the fireball is a total volume of roughly 33,000 cubic feet (or yards)]. Besides causing damage to creatures, the fireball IGNITES all COMBUSTIBLE materials within its burst radius, and the heat of the fireball will melt soft metals such as gold, copper, silver, etc. Items exposed to the spell's effects must be rolled for to determine if they are affected. Items with a creature which makes its saving throw are considered as unaffected. The magic-user points his or her finger and speaks the range (distance and height) at which the fireball is to burst. A streak flashes from the pointing digit and, unless it impacts upon a material body prior to attaining the prescribed range, flowers into the fireball. If creatures fail their saving throws, they all take full hit point damage from the blast. Those who make saving throws manage to dodge, fall flat or roll aside, taking ½ the full hit point damage - each and every one within the blast area. The material component of this spell is a tiny ball composed of bat guano and sulphur. [1E PHB, p. 73

They sure ruined that iconic spell, huh?

http://deltasdnd.blogspot.de/2011/07/spells-through-ages-fireball.html

>>49752296
Now I need a world built to mock Tumblr sentiments. Words are literally cutting. Offensding others causes them physical pain. Etc.

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>>49748336

>>49748297

>>49748297

Wizard has been playing ice hockey as a goal tender without face protection just like Terry Sawchuk in that pic?

>>49752549
>http://deltasdnd.blogspot.de/2011/07/spells-through-ages-fireball.html
Well thats interesting, since Spelljammer explicitly stated that Fireball did not cause fires.

>>49748297
Maybe because whenever someone actually gets close enough to hit them, they suck at defending themselves.

>>49752523
It burns things, which in game terms is represented by damage. But note that the text you quoted explicitly says
>Unattended objects also take this damage.
This implies that attended objects do not take damage, and therefore do not catch fire.

Unless you believe something can be on fire and not be damaged by it?

>>49748297
Because the wizard isn't a little bitch and gets in the melee with the boys once in a while.

>>49748973
oh yeah this guy's dead

>>49752877
I'm not that anon. Was jokes

>>49752877
>This implies that attended objects do not take damage, and therefore do not catch fire.

The rule is there so you can't say, "you were hit with a fireball and all your equipment was destroyed." It doesn't really make sense, but otherwise fireball would have to be way higher level spell.

>>49751292
The one abusing him is his master, meaning he's an even greater and more powerful caster.
So he's rending the fabric of time and space to abuse his apprentice.
better?

>>49753394
Ohhh, he's a painslave, got it. That makes sense. Then why does he matter?

>>49753413
Because, when he finally became proficient enough in magic to get past his master's wards and defenses, he snuck up on his master and killed him with a brick in a sock.
Now he's the master wizard, and he's fucking pissed.

>>49748297
>try to cook up your alchemical potions
>fug too much bat shit got in the mix
>oh shit it is gonna fucking explode
>1d4 shrapnel damage to the face
>permanent -2 to charisma

>>49753444
>with a brick in a sock

>I cast mage's hand
>But we're interrogating, how will that hel
>leave the room, i need to change my shoes

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>>49748297
>He stepped on the hem of his robe at the Adventurers Market and fell face-first into the sword-bin.

>Wild mage who fumbled his spells; fumbled spells do terrible things to you and your surroundings

>Magical Flesh-eating Worms that live in your body and give you the ability to cast spells

>He is from a long line of Knights and his conservative dad didn't like the fact that he sucked at swords but had a knack for sorcery

>He encountered another spell-caster and was engaged in a magic duel

>He miscalculated the range and trajectory of his conjured Acid-Sphere

>>49752931
But the legend will live forever.

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bump for funny weird shit I enjoy

>>49748297
Smallpox

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>>49748297
Endless Legends - Arden Mages

Something along those lines would be cool, although there are a lot of good ideas.

>>49748297
Taking each of those scars updated his journal

Turns out the elf in the brothel was really kinky
Turns out he was really kinky too

>>49752931
>>49754484
story?

>>49758145
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn

>>49758145
Google "radioactive boy scout"

>>49758179
>>49758189
Thanks.

What a weird dude.

>>49748297

The caster in my 5e game has stayed behind the frontline as much as he possibly can. He'd gone down more often than any other character and has died (and been rezzed) a total of three times. Sometimes shit doesn't go according to plan.

>>49751292
You know kids get beat too right?

>>49751292
>not making your bitches out of gold, strong enough to lift your tower and completely invulnerable to all harm
>not forgetting to place the charms that make her feel empathy
>not loving her anyway

>>49748297
>Casts grease
>trips on the skating rink.

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