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I have bean having trouble with a player and his interpretation of his character and as he puts it "fear". His half orc is supposedly afraid of magic. But instead of acting afraid of it (ether running of even avoiding it) he instead simply ignores it until my character (a wizard) pisses him off and then attacks my guy under the excuse of "I'm a half orc this is how my guy was taught to deal with fear." Now I have brought this up to the DM and the other players before and (probably because its not their guys getting attacked) they just brush me off saying things like "you're just overreacting" or "it's just how he copes with his fear." Now I could accept this if my wizard was the only magic user in the party or if this was how he acted to all magic users..... But we also have a druid and recently a bard has joined. These two do not get treated this way and I feel this has just become a way for him to pick on me. However I think I will let this slide mostly because I plan to eventually get revenge. Now on to what I really want: I am going to bring this up again to my D&D group but instead of asking that he change his RP I am going to ask that he change the word "fears" to "hates" because this is a better description of his actions.
So what I am asking is this:
On a scale of 1 to 10, from what I have described his actions to be, is hate a better word than fear in this case?
Also if you can't understand what I wrote either A: take it up with the website I use to spell/grammar check my writings here: https://www.jspell.com/public-spell-checker.html or B: please acknowledge that either English is not my first language and/or writing is not my strong suit, but I'm trying my best to accommodate you as my intended readers.
So what I am asking is this:
On a scale of 1 to 10, from what I have described his actions to be, is hate a better word than fear in this case?
Also if you can't understand what I wrote either A: take it up with the website I use to spell/grammar check my writings here: https://www.jspell.com/public-spell-checker.html or B: please acknowledge that either English is not my first language and/or writing is not my strong suit, but I'm trying my best to accommodate you as my intended readers.
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Here is a question: What would you rule an attack using "pure unformed magic energy" as, and what kind of penalty would you apply?
For me, I would say all of one's spell slots would be spent immediately and put the damage as a split of Acid, Cold, Fire, Force, Lightning, Necrotic, Poison, and Psychic magic type and deal damage as so for the spell slots:
lvl 1 8d6 cone
lvl 2+ 16d4 100 foot aoe
And after this the magic user would become incapacitated. That way, it's like, yeah, you can do that but you better hope one of your allies survives to rescue you because if an enemy outside that zone hears/feels you do this and gets healed, they got you dead to rights.
I know this is more a thing that would normally not come up, but I am pondering this and just so you know, I would let this be used by all magic users, and not just sorcerers. I would add a small stipulation that sorcerers, being heavily infused with magic, only keep the incapacitated status for 1-2 days (depending on the care they receive during their refractory period) but all other classes would need to roll a d4-10, or maybe a number equal to the spell level, and keep the status for that long and must be cared for during that time: aka basic bed rest, no strenuous activates, et cetra.
For me, I would say all of one's spell slots would be spent immediately and put the damage as a split of Acid, Cold, Fire, Force, Lightning, Necrotic, Poison, and Psychic magic type and deal damage as so for the spell slots:
lvl 1 8d6 cone
lvl 2+ 16d4 100 foot aoe
And after this the magic user would become incapacitated. That way, it's like, yeah, you can do that but you better hope one of your allies survives to rescue you because if an enemy outside that zone hears/feels you do this and gets healed, they got you dead to rights.
I know this is more a thing that would normally not come up, but I am pondering this and just so you know, I would let this be used by all magic users, and not just sorcerers. I would add a small stipulation that sorcerers, being heavily infused with magic, only keep the incapacitated status for 1-2 days (depending on the care they receive during their refractory period) but all other classes would need to roll a d4-10, or maybe a number equal to the spell level, and keep the status for that long and must be cared for during that time: aka basic bed rest, no strenuous activates, et cetra.
Which edition/version of D&D are you playing in, first of all?
Also, for your second question, you could play a Psion if it's 3rd edition. They have the capacity to expend a huge amount of their energy reserves to bolster a single psionic attack. It's very similar to what you are trying to emulate. If nothing else, I suggest trying to dig up some 3rd edition resources about Psions and give them a read to see if you can find a good way to emulate what you want to accomplish.
Be mindful though, that most magic users don't necessarily have just stores of mana within them. Wizards manipulate the world around them through practice and technique. They really aren't all that magical by themselves, outside of having a familiar. Take away their spellbook and you strip them of most of their power. Warlocks pull their magic forth from darkness or a dark patron of sorts, and clerics and other divine casters receive magic allotted to them by their gods. This would seem to be exclusively a sorcerer thing, IMHO.
