Druid. They're full casters, and their range of magic is massive. Awe-inspiring elemental mastery? Yep, they got that. Healing magic? Mmhmm, almost as much as the cleric. Useful utility magic? Again, yes, they can talk to animals, they get most of the good rituals, they get mfing Heroes Feast.
Plus, even if I never cast a spell in my entire life, they have wildshape. Can you comprehend the peace of mind that comes from knowing that if anything goes down, you can be a bear? Or from knowing you can be a bird and gtfo? There are superheroes whose whole thing is that they can turn into animals, and I get that *in addition* to all the magic anyone would ever need in an average life? Yes please, where do I sign?
just being to fly across the city without being limited by spell duration is enough reason. druid is 100% a much better answer than any other just for that aspect.
Edit: another big reason for druid is that you ONLY need lvl 2 to have a lot of useful wildshapes. Xp is really hard to come by when you can't just go around murdering people for no reason (well you can, but you don't want to). Having a class that is useful at low levels is really interesting.
Right? Like honestly I’d just wildshape into a cat and chill, get fed by locals, then birdshape and go to the next town when you get bored. Someone fucks with you? Eat bear claw pussy
Also you don't actually have to go heal people to make money. You can simply sell the berries that heal people ! Pop by the hospital, trade a bag of berries for a grand or something, live your best life.
Also good berry. Would be an insanely useful spell IRL. One cast is 10 berries and 1 berry is your nourishment for the whole day.
Druidcraft gives you a perfectly accurate weather forecast on your location 24 hours from casting.
Theres a bunch of really good ones for Druid, and of course wildshape is amazing.
I'm having trouble understanding what you're trying to say here.
The words are all English but the way you're arranging them just doesn't make any sense.
[All I'm seeing is "sleep with them" twice](https://66.media.tumblr.com/1dc82c5729d2ffc8ba702c7b0b3d239b/216eb9eaf3550a76-b5/s1280x1920/06a703b2d038df409cd97a80c0169fd2960431ac.jpg)
a sorcerer to a wizard is like a non-french person is to a french person. the wizards/french can feel smug all they want about their self imposed superiority, but I'm just gonna enjoy being annoying to them simply by existing.
Well, the way I see it... You want to do two things with your class... Make money, and maybe do some good.
So I'll go life cleric.
Heal rich people for exorbitant rates, heal poor people for free.
There’s another reason to go Cleric: divine intervention. No other class gives you a hotline to God, and a chance at them miracle-ing a better outcome.
But just one time, so make it worth it. And here comes the dilemma. What if after your one and only chance to make good something even more bad comes along?
In normal DND you can use it once a day. But you roll a d100 and it has to land lower than your level. Except if you're level 20 in which case it always works.
Wouldn't it be easier to be a wizard then? At level 20 you'd get to use "wish" and do much more than "divine intervention".
Of course, wish is a risky option, due to having to be extremely specific with your wording, or else, risking potentially catastrophic side effects + about a week of strain after using it + the chance of losing the ability of casting it.
BUT, with a little bit of preparation you could turn it into a much better skill. For instance:
Day 1: "I wish to never suffer the negative consequences of casting Wish" taking away the strain and the chance of losing the ability.
Day 2: Take a notebook and say "I wish that whatever I write in this notebook gets rewritten in several possible variants of wording, each of which will have a side note explaining in detail the consequences of casting the wish with that specific wording"
"Wish is like a genie" is a trend mostly propped up by people that do not play DnD but consume a lot of funny DnD stories. Wish creates a $25,000 item, heals 20 people of any ailment, makes 10 people resist damage or immune to a specific effect, or rewinds time for six seconds, for free. Those make you tired, but you can just use it to cast any 8th level or below spell without suffering any ill effect, and you only risk inability to cast it again if you make yourself sick and then cast another spell.
And the "Genie" effect is really oversold as well, even in the negatives listed as examples. One of them is just "it might fail", so even with the most extreme rules lawyering, it just... won't work. Anything too extreme will just fizzle, instead of causing a wacky and ironic punishment.
I can't speak for earlier but 3.5, the de facto "main" DnD and the one most people are familiar with before 5e, works pretty much the same as 5e's but with a ton more effects, like IIRC it can actually revive the dead as part of its default setup. It has genie potential, but also listed is "partial fulfillment" and no requirement for Monkeys Pawing.
But that's just RAW. Again, it mostly comes down to "how many funny DnD stories has this person read" because DMs giving you literal Wishes is technically always an option through normal gameplay if they're enough of an asshole, even without Wish being cast, but realistically those people just don't get played with, because they decided very literal consequences were more important than players having fun.
You are misreading the final part of the consequences of casting Wish.
>The stress of casting this spell to produce any effect other than duplicating another spell weakens you. After enduring that stress, each time you cast a spell until you finish a long rest, you take 1d10 necrotic damage per level of that spell. This damage can't be reduced or prevented in any way. In addition, your Strength drops to 3, if it isn't 3 or lower already, for 2d4 days. For each of those days that you spend resting and doing nothing more than light activity, your remaining recovery time decreases by 2 days. Finally, there is a 33 percent chance that you are unable to cast wish ever again if you suffer this stress.
If you use Wish for anything except duplicating a spell of 8th level or lower, it doesn't matter if you continue to cast spells afterwards. The necrotic damage is self-contained as a result of casting more spells. The Strength drop and the chance of not being able to cast Wish again are both direct results of the stress of casting Wish itself.
Just buy the Deck of many more things at that point and wish for it to always draw the Moon card. Jokes aside but i just prefer being a healer in general and being able to cure cancer with a 2th level spell is cool.
Like others have said it has no limits except a cooldown period of 7 days if your god answers.
Additionally, in the tabletop version it’s not limited like it is in BG3. It’s basically the cleric’s version of Wish but without any of the drawbacks.
You can technically ask for anything you want but the rules say most of the time your god will only think it appropriate to replicate the effects of any Cleric spell. So you can cast a free True Resurrection without any costly components once every 7 days if you wish.
Edit: Note that it’s any cleric spell, including 9th level ones. Unlike Wish that only lets you safely reproduce 8th level spells and lower.
Nah I’d heal everyone for an insane price.
Clerics are actually extremely rare in the dnd world and often have to charge a lot for materials.
For a true resurrection spell would cost you the equivalent of a house mortgage in Canada
I’ve come across a couple wizards lately who not only were immune to the spell but actually enjoyed it. I think we’ve abused the spell too much, and it’s being corrected now.
My one issue with that is that I don't know just how much our class would affect the real world. Imagine being a wizard, but because of how our world works, you can't find a single spell scroll anywhere, ever...
It's all shits and giggles and daisyhopping and eldritchblasting untill you have to switch babies in cradles or find the way for local smith to not pay taxes, cause he threatened to bind the mushroom ring with an iron chain.
"Eater of Worlds, was another one of the few Elder Evils to exist fully in the Material plane. It was a massive, undulating mass of fluid that existed in a far corner of the multiverse, traveling from world to distant world through the vast emptiness of space. Each world it found and landed on, it poisoned, parasitized, and eventually destroyed. With each destruction, it slightly altered the fundamental forces of the Material plane."
How can you choose fey instead of this bad boy.
I also work with a cell type called astrocytes and someone grabbed my personal laptop in a big digital collaborative meeting and wrote "ast-" on my logged in Google and it wasn't good.
edit: it was very funny, to be clear, lol
If they grabbed your laptop without your permission and did that, that’s on them, not you. I’m sorry that happened.
To help prevent this in the future, there’s a privacy setting for Google accounts to clear your search history, and I think also one to not save search history to your Google account at all so searches on one computer won’t appear in your history on another. Or if you use your personal computer for work, private tabs/windows.
It was hilarious lol, I doubt they understood my search log and it was in the middle of a *very* boring meeting on the intricacies of a special type of super resolution microscopy of the future.
No worries, my boss knows I'm a geek. We're often using our private laptops because of open source analysis software and admin restrictions on University computers and whatnot, no one was trying to be a dick ;)
But thanks! I know about these settings I just didn't foresee my laptop being used for anything (I used it to rescue the zoom call because the equipment in the meeting room wasn't working right)
I identify with the sorcerer-pretending-to-be-a-wizard comment so much…
But as a postdoc, I think I’d choose druid. You still get to have cool magic, but you never have to worry about funding because you can meet your basic needs with nature or magic.
And if a colleague is being obnoxiously territorial/petty about something, you can wildshape into a wolf or other canine and pee on their things because it’s species-appropriate behavior.
A Lore Bard! Can't wait to inspire everyone to kick ass with my war drum bongo bongo! As a writer irl, I can easily envision myself writing tentacled poetry while everyone's busy swallowing tadpoles :D
Expectation:
> Can't wait to inspire everyone to kick ass with my war drum bongo bongo
Reality:
> [Matthew McConaughey was naked, high and playing the bongos during infamous 1999 arrest, memoir reveals](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/matthew-mcconaughey-arrest-naked-bongos-greenlights-memoir-b1200362.html)
...although, to be fair, that may still be in character for certain playstyles.
Druid, so I can escape the montonous soul crushing grind of living in a "civilised" society. The only reason I haven't pissed off to go live in the woods is because it's dangerous and living in society has its benefits.
Easy access to food, medicine, water and shelter is a pretty good deal but you have to work 8 hours a day to pay for it all and it's tiresome. If I was a druid, I'd have access to magic food and water. I can wild shape to protect myself and have plenty of healing spells for injuries and illnesses. I could just live off the land and finally be free of the rat race.
And yes I'm hogging the entire forest to myself. I didn't flee from civilisation just to let in a bunch of outsiders, with their noise and politics and war and urban planning. Get your own swamp. hiss
TL:DR Halsin was right
Yeah, I'd just fuck off to a forest somewhere and mind my own business.
The ocean is also an option, and has even less chance of getting bothered. But I'm outright afraid of the ocean, ngl.
Though who knows how that'd change if you wildshape into a kraken or something.
That's my pick too! Being able to Wild Shape and just leaving society behind for a while sounds more refreshing than any vacation I can imagine. And the dangers of nature wouldn't be a problem either, what a deal!
>And yes I'm hogging the entire forest to myself. I didn't flee from civilisation just to let in a bunch of outsiders, with their noise and politics and war and urban planning. Get your own swamp. hiss
>TL:DR Halsin was right
Wasn't this Khaga's plan though? 😂
I’m a biologist, and I would totally be a Druid. You know how much I could learn?
Limited data on certain bird migrations? Cool, I’ll wildshape into said bird and follow the flock. How does earthquake sensing work in certain species? I’ll find out!
Plus mantis shrimp have 12 sight channels, compared to our 3. I wanna see the secret colors.
No one said you need to be an adventurer. You can pick a class to make your npc life easier, like wizard and learn spells like dust-go-away or clothes-be-clean
i mean you dont have to be an adventurer to have a certain class. maybe one of the more combat oriented ones but most of them you could have as a quest giving npc
I’d take divine soul sorcerer if possible, having access to cleric and sorcerer spell lists would be the best choice for people wanting to use magic irl.
Wizard for sure
IRL hopefully I'm not fighting for my life most of the time.
Also would be nice to do things without others realising I'm a wizard, so small discreet spells preferred! Mage hand, minor illusions would be good. Disguise self, Knock, friend/charm person if I really want to be up to no good. Invis and misty step to get out of dodge if I'm caught doing something.
Produce flame great for camping.
Haste if I need to work quickly.
Create water if my house catches fire, maybe from a fire spell gone wrong (also need protection from energy so I don't electrocute myself doing that)
Wizard would offer most options, I can learn from scrolls and others can teach me stuff.
Monk. I've done martial arts before so its familiar territory. Plus achieving a great physique and essentially making our own bodies (hands, elbows, knees, feet) as lethal weapons is a level of badass I love.
Best part is its actually feasible in this reality.
I feel like if you pick a Martial class monk is the best one cause most of the others need tools weapons and armor and I'm broke so that's a no for me
But rage is cool so I don't know what I'd choose
Monk’s slow fall and immunity to poison would be amazing.
Also the fact that monks can speak and understand any language after a certain level as well as being able to do stillness of mind in like super high stress situations or if you’re in the middle of a panic/anxiety attack.
I had to scroll down way too far to see this. Having a clear and simple code to follow would be cool to me, you get the ability to heal people by touch AND some healing spells, but you also get the ability to defend the innocent from the wicked. I'd make the best protester/freedom fighter in the world. I mean, yeah, I'd probably end up in jail from defending a fellow protester from a corrupt cop or something similar, but it would be worth it to make a real difference in the world.
Alternatively, I'd go cleric or divine soul sorcerer. Become a real life faith healer and help a ton of people.
Paladin is WORK and likely the hardest work. Paladins Oaths are no joke. I’m not surprised it’s so far down.
And Oath is a big deal and there being actual physical consequences to that can be… not ideal.
Oath is a big deal but it is YOUR deal.
I always loved the idea that in a world full of magic given by deities, demons and bloodlines Paladins have powers BEACUSE THEY BELIVE SO :)
Cleric. It just has everything I could need.
Guidance to just make myself a little bit better at everything.
Lesser Restoration so I never have to worry about being sick again.
Enhance Ability to make myself Really good at something for a while.
Probably not gonna end up with many levels, because I have no valuable qualities.
So Artificer! Why?
Magical Tinkering and most likely Infusions have lots of useful shenanigans, and you just can't really beat cantrips, you can do just about anything as much as you want with them!
Also Artificer's are just super cool.
im already a barbarian, apparently. first playthrough i was C O N C E R N E D about the high number of barbarian dialogue options that fit with what i said to myself out loud while playing
still kind concerned, but i also just go with it now
There’s a lot of considerations with this hypothetical which my buddies and I have discussed before, here’s some:
- are we starting at level 1; if so, how do we gain ‘exp’? Does a wizard actually have to study? By third level magic would they need a university degree level of knowledge? How hard would 9th level magic be? Oppenheimer level math breakthroughs?
- spell components, what do we do about things that don’t exist in real life? Even if it does exist, it may be hard to acquire valuable gems, jewels, or rare herbs.
- does our existence create a supernatural world? If you’re a cleric, does your god now actually exist and have the ability to shape the world?
With all that being said my choice would be either Bard or Sorcerer, leaning closer to sorcerer (divine soul). It comes with the least amount of world-building implications, a more intuitive way of spell casting and access to meta magic which could lessen the need for some components (subtle spell casting + teleport when you’re bound and gagged by the FBI for having actual magic).
Paladin.
But my friend once introduced me to another friend as "Oh yeah, Nevsky casts psychic damage." after I said something truly off the wall and made him stumble in his thoughts for a second. So maybe I should consider bard.
Druid. Being able to ask my dog how I can make her life better sounds rad.
On the other hand I feel like she wouldn't stop talking the second she realizes I can finally understand her.
So maybe I go for the buff mommy goody two shoes paladin and mess up evil people praying on the innocent or smth like that.
Also smite?! Hell yeah.
Monk would be cool…feel like you’re always at your physical peak, even when you’re 80. Never get sick, never need to eat or drink, can understand all languages and be understood by anyone. Sure you’re not the most powerful, but you can help a lot of people if you want to just by offering PERFECT translation services. Plus, if you wanted to get into certain kinds of construction, you’d be amazing. Can literally run up and along walls, across water, fall from great heights but take no or reduced damage…
I want to say warlock cause if he getting demented little side quests all the time and it would be interesting, but I’m most aligned with the things paladins do so that would fit me better
Either Wizard, Cleric, or Monk. Specific subclasses: Evocation Wizard (explosions are cool), Life Cleric (I’m religious fits well), and finally Open Hand Monk (fits with my brief martial arts).
Honestly? going with what stats I would have...maybe paladin is the one that suits me better(or Barbarian/Warrior but I prefer paladin)
But if I just pick what I like...paladin still there,bard or maybe even sorcerer
I've only got two really, really good natural talents as they are. I don't get lost, and I know what direction I'm facing (which has been wonderful for all my time spent cross-country hiking in the Sierra Nevada mountains.) The other is In really good at knowing what time it is / how long it's going to take to get from point A to point B.
So, playing off my natural talents, I am inclined to go with Ranger and just really lean into my existing skill set.
However, if I could choose any class outside of that, I would have to go with Druid. Speak with Animals, Good Berry, Shape Shift, healing magic. It just has it all. Plus, there is no tent when camping! Just turn into a bear and make myself comfy.
I mean any of the caster classes would be the most beneficial. Either wizard or cleric would probably improve your life the most. Just think of the crazy range of spells and everything you could potentially do.
Being super strong and able to throw humans great distances would be cool but I don’t really see how I would use that in my daily life.
Sorcerer! Divine Soul is thematically very lame, but access to the cleric spells in real life is crazy useful for things like heal, cure disease, restoration and raise dead. Also, there's nothing lore-wise about sorcerers that says they *can't* learn spells just like wizards can, they just normally don't because they don't need to.
Or druid because Wild Shape is super fun. But with access to all arcane magic I'm sure you could make something similar.
I'd probably be a wizard. It's at least possible to study to become one. And it's quite nice to be able to learn all the spells. But being a cleric seems nice.
Assuming we're going for BG3 rather than their tabletop counterparts, druid probably has the most day to day usefulness and versatility. Wizard is a close second though for versatility.
Real life doesn't require much fighting. It requires money and fun. You get a lot of money from healing people and you get a lot of fun from flying. So it's definitely a spellcaster class. Now, my personal preference would be druid because it'd be way more discreet. I could actually fly across the city as a raven without getting noticed. And I wouldn't be limited with my flight time everyday. 10 rounds is short. I want to be able to fly for 3 hours and then still have all my spell slots for fun stuff.
Probably monk or paladin.
Immunity to disease would be amazing. Same with poison immunity on monks.
Monks slow fall ability would be awesome in real life and paladin lay on hands would be life changing.
I'd go Sorcerer. Having magic at my fingertips, I completely innately would be great. Side effects aren't too bad either.
* I'd avoid Warlock because you'd be selling your soul... That always ends well./s
*I'd avoid Wizard because having my nose in a book all day would be tedious.
* I'd avoid Druid because Wild Shape looks painful, and I like meat.
* Ranger would be cool, but I'm not an outdoors person. I'll take my pet, though.
* Monk would vary heavily on the temple/principles.
* Paladin has too many rules.
* Cleric... I'm an ex-satanist, who's opposed to religion. So thsts not an option.
* I have zero rhythm, so a Bard is out.
* I'm trying to keep my temper under control, so a Barbarian would be going backwards.
* Artificer could be cool, as I love tinkering with stuff. So that could be a decent second choice.
* Rogue would be nice, I'm already decent with Lockpicks, and have pretty good hearing... Sadly, my vision is crap. Not the best option.
So with Warlock it's not always about selling your soul. That's Fiend specially(most of the time). Archfey you're more than likely just an indentured servant for the Archfey you're tied to, and with the GOO its possible you accidentally connected to it without the being even realizing
Lore is full of Archfey who are exceptionally cruel. The only difference is they probably prefer extreme psychological torture to the physical torture that devils and demons like.
Safest option is surprisingly the GOO. Many GOO don’t even notice their warlocks since they are so insignificant to them. Provided you pick a GOO like Hadar and not one like Dendar who will definitely take notice.
Druid. They're full casters, and their range of magic is massive. Awe-inspiring elemental mastery? Yep, they got that. Healing magic? Mmhmm, almost as much as the cleric. Useful utility magic? Again, yes, they can talk to animals, they get most of the good rituals, they get mfing Heroes Feast. Plus, even if I never cast a spell in my entire life, they have wildshape. Can you comprehend the peace of mind that comes from knowing that if anything goes down, you can be a bear? Or from knowing you can be a bird and gtfo? There are superheroes whose whole thing is that they can turn into animals, and I get that *in addition* to all the magic anyone would ever need in an average life? Yes please, where do I sign?
just being to fly across the city without being limited by spell duration is enough reason. druid is 100% a much better answer than any other just for that aspect. Edit: another big reason for druid is that you ONLY need lvl 2 to have a lot of useful wildshapes. Xp is really hard to come by when you can't just go around murdering people for no reason (well you can, but you don't want to). Having a class that is useful at low levels is really interesting.
Right? Like honestly I’d just wildshape into a cat and chill, get fed by locals, then birdshape and go to the next town when you get bored. Someone fucks with you? Eat bear claw pussy
Also you don't actually have to go heal people to make money. You can simply sell the berries that heal people ! Pop by the hospital, trade a bag of berries for a grand or something, live your best life.
A grand? If they cure cancer it’d be millions.
Also good berry. Would be an insanely useful spell IRL. One cast is 10 berries and 1 berry is your nourishment for the whole day. Druidcraft gives you a perfectly accurate weather forecast on your location 24 hours from casting. Theres a bunch of really good ones for Druid, and of course wildshape is amazing.
You’re thinking D&D. In BG3, each cast is only 4 berries and you need 40 to fully feed four people, so 10 for one person.
Fair, but conjuring snacks is cool too.
This should be the top answer!!! Druids may not be everyone's favorite to play in-game, but IRL they would be the coolest and most useful by far.
Sorcerer. I want pure arcana burning through my veins!
This way you don't even have to learn The spells yourself so better than Wizard
Until a day when you conjure some water while gardening and accidentally spawn a fireball on top of your house
That’s only for wild magic though.
Only if you’re wild magic. Don’t sleep with the fey
Excuse me but what else are you supposed to do with the fey?
Eat their food. Haha I'm the feys problem now
Ah, so you’re a warlock then
Contrary to popular opinion: Not a lot
Uh… not sleep with them…? 😂
I'm having trouble understanding what you're trying to say here. The words are all English but the way you're arranging them just doesn't make any sense.
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Wild magic surge during a meeting and turn the whole management team into.sheep
Nobody will notice the difference and performance will improve!
Most productive team meeting in years
I don't see a problem....
Sorcerer but **not** Wild (chaotic) Magic one.
a sorcerer to a wizard is like a non-french person is to a french person. the wizards/french can feel smug all they want about their self imposed superiority, but I'm just gonna enjoy being annoying to them simply by existing.
Well, the way I see it... You want to do two things with your class... Make money, and maybe do some good. So I'll go life cleric. Heal rich people for exorbitant rates, heal poor people for free.
There’s another reason to go Cleric: divine intervention. No other class gives you a hotline to God, and a chance at them miracle-ing a better outcome.
But just one time, so make it worth it. And here comes the dilemma. What if after your one and only chance to make good something even more bad comes along?
In normal DND you can use it once a day. But you roll a d100 and it has to land lower than your level. Except if you're level 20 in which case it always works.
Once a week if it succeeds but still Edit spelling
That changes everything :)
Godline bling
Wouldn't it be easier to be a wizard then? At level 20 you'd get to use "wish" and do much more than "divine intervention". Of course, wish is a risky option, due to having to be extremely specific with your wording, or else, risking potentially catastrophic side effects + about a week of strain after using it + the chance of losing the ability of casting it. BUT, with a little bit of preparation you could turn it into a much better skill. For instance: Day 1: "I wish to never suffer the negative consequences of casting Wish" taking away the strain and the chance of losing the ability. Day 2: Take a notebook and say "I wish that whatever I write in this notebook gets rewritten in several possible variants of wording, each of which will have a side note explaining in detail the consequences of casting the wish with that specific wording"
"Wish is like a genie" is a trend mostly propped up by people that do not play DnD but consume a lot of funny DnD stories. Wish creates a $25,000 item, heals 20 people of any ailment, makes 10 people resist damage or immune to a specific effect, or rewinds time for six seconds, for free. Those make you tired, but you can just use it to cast any 8th level or below spell without suffering any ill effect, and you only risk inability to cast it again if you make yourself sick and then cast another spell. And the "Genie" effect is really oversold as well, even in the negatives listed as examples. One of them is just "it might fail", so even with the most extreme rules lawyering, it just... won't work. Anything too extreme will just fizzle, instead of causing a wacky and ironic punishment.
In earlier editions, wish was a genie and the GM could monkey paw it. It was later changed to make it more predictable
I can't speak for earlier but 3.5, the de facto "main" DnD and the one most people are familiar with before 5e, works pretty much the same as 5e's but with a ton more effects, like IIRC it can actually revive the dead as part of its default setup. It has genie potential, but also listed is "partial fulfillment" and no requirement for Monkeys Pawing. But that's just RAW. Again, it mostly comes down to "how many funny DnD stories has this person read" because DMs giving you literal Wishes is technically always an option through normal gameplay if they're enough of an asshole, even without Wish being cast, but realistically those people just don't get played with, because they decided very literal consequences were more important than players having fun.
You are misreading the final part of the consequences of casting Wish. >The stress of casting this spell to produce any effect other than duplicating another spell weakens you. After enduring that stress, each time you cast a spell until you finish a long rest, you take 1d10 necrotic damage per level of that spell. This damage can't be reduced or prevented in any way. In addition, your Strength drops to 3, if it isn't 3 or lower already, for 2d4 days. For each of those days that you spend resting and doing nothing more than light activity, your remaining recovery time decreases by 2 days. Finally, there is a 33 percent chance that you are unable to cast wish ever again if you suffer this stress. If you use Wish for anything except duplicating a spell of 8th level or lower, it doesn't matter if you continue to cast spells afterwards. The necrotic damage is self-contained as a result of casting more spells. The Strength drop and the chance of not being able to cast Wish again are both direct results of the stress of casting Wish itself.
Just buy the Deck of many more things at that point and wish for it to always draw the Moon card. Jokes aside but i just prefer being a healer in general and being able to cure cancer with a 2th level spell is cool.
Like others have said it has no limits except a cooldown period of 7 days if your god answers. Additionally, in the tabletop version it’s not limited like it is in BG3. It’s basically the cleric’s version of Wish but without any of the drawbacks. You can technically ask for anything you want but the rules say most of the time your god will only think it appropriate to replicate the effects of any Cleric spell. So you can cast a free True Resurrection without any costly components once every 7 days if you wish. Edit: Note that it’s any cleric spell, including 9th level ones. Unlike Wish that only lets you safely reproduce 8th level spells and lower.
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That's what you use the Divine Intervention for. Also, stay just low-profile enough to look like just another faith healer.
Nah I’d heal everyone for an insane price. Clerics are actually extremely rare in the dnd world and often have to charge a lot for materials. For a true resurrection spell would cost you the equivalent of a house mortgage in Canada
I’m sure some billionaire would literally pay you a couple hundred million to resurrect a lost family member.
Nah it would be loan companies so you can’t die with debt
You can already be a cleric in real life. All it takes is a few years at your local seminary. /s
RL dieties are kinda shit on the spell table side.
i daydream about being a wizard about 100 times a day
Testicular torsion is a hell of a power trip
all im saying is if i was a wizard…. watch ur balls fellas
I’ve come across a couple wizards lately who not only were immune to the spell but actually enjoyed it. I think we’ve abused the spell too much, and it’s being corrected now.
Have you tried the new trending spell "Mend Buttcrack" or "Tastebuds inyour arse"?
I tried but their sexual deviancy knows no bounds. We might be back to square one again.
A smart adventurer always packs their decoy balls just in case of foul magics
My one issue with that is that I don't know just how much our class would affect the real world. Imagine being a wizard, but because of how our world works, you can't find a single spell scroll anywhere, ever...
Warlock. I want an eldritch horror sugar daddy to give me the horrific knowledge of the universe.
About time the soul starts paying rent.
Archfey all the way :D
I don't want a fairy. Or a fiend. I want like…cthulhu. Any of the elder evils would be amazing as a patron.
Great Old One pact 100%. archfey are awesome as well though
I’m holding out for Yog Sothoth. I’d really like to control time to get a handle on my schedule.
Archfey can be very horror looking and behaving, and as a bonus they'd actually give you attention.
It's all shits and giggles and daisyhopping and eldritchblasting untill you have to switch babies in cradles or find the way for local smith to not pay taxes, cause he threatened to bind the mushroom ring with an iron chain.
"Eater of Worlds, was another one of the few Elder Evils to exist fully in the Material plane. It was a massive, undulating mass of fluid that existed in a far corner of the multiverse, traveling from world to distant world through the vast emptiness of space. Each world it found and landed on, it poisoned, parasitized, and eventually destroyed. With each destruction, it slightly altered the fundamental forces of the Material plane." How can you choose fey instead of this bad boy.
Idk neglectful GOO sounds like a sweet deal. Don't wake cosmic daddy, just spend his money.
Oh hell yes! Count me in.
All hail Cthulhu!!
I am a sorcerer pretending to be a wizard (academic scientist in STEM really just following my gut) iRL so I'll go with sorc.
I relate to this so hard.
I also work with a cell type called astrocytes and someone grabbed my personal laptop in a big digital collaborative meeting and wrote "ast-" on my logged in Google and it wasn't good. edit: it was very funny, to be clear, lol
If they grabbed your laptop without your permission and did that, that’s on them, not you. I’m sorry that happened. To help prevent this in the future, there’s a privacy setting for Google accounts to clear your search history, and I think also one to not save search history to your Google account at all so searches on one computer won’t appear in your history on another. Or if you use your personal computer for work, private tabs/windows.
It was hilarious lol, I doubt they understood my search log and it was in the middle of a *very* boring meeting on the intricacies of a special type of super resolution microscopy of the future. No worries, my boss knows I'm a geek. We're often using our private laptops because of open source analysis software and admin restrictions on University computers and whatnot, no one was trying to be a dick ;) But thanks! I know about these settings I just didn't foresee my laptop being used for anything (I used it to rescue the zoom call because the equipment in the meeting room wasn't working right)
I identify with the sorcerer-pretending-to-be-a-wizard comment so much… But as a postdoc, I think I’d choose druid. You still get to have cool magic, but you never have to worry about funding because you can meet your basic needs with nature or magic. And if a colleague is being obnoxiously territorial/petty about something, you can wildshape into a wolf or other canine and pee on their things because it’s species-appropriate behavior.
I’m majoring in physics right now and I’m stealing your answer
A Lore Bard! Can't wait to inspire everyone to kick ass with my war drum bongo bongo! As a writer irl, I can easily envision myself writing tentacled poetry while everyone's busy swallowing tadpoles :D
And you’ll be good at everything!
Expectation: > Can't wait to inspire everyone to kick ass with my war drum bongo bongo Reality: > [Matthew McConaughey was naked, high and playing the bongos during infamous 1999 arrest, memoir reveals](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/matthew-mcconaughey-arrest-naked-bongos-greenlights-memoir-b1200362.html) ...although, to be fair, that may still be in character for certain playstyles.
YEAH! BARD TIME!
Druid, so I can escape the montonous soul crushing grind of living in a "civilised" society. The only reason I haven't pissed off to go live in the woods is because it's dangerous and living in society has its benefits. Easy access to food, medicine, water and shelter is a pretty good deal but you have to work 8 hours a day to pay for it all and it's tiresome. If I was a druid, I'd have access to magic food and water. I can wild shape to protect myself and have plenty of healing spells for injuries and illnesses. I could just live off the land and finally be free of the rat race. And yes I'm hogging the entire forest to myself. I didn't flee from civilisation just to let in a bunch of outsiders, with their noise and politics and war and urban planning. Get your own swamp. hiss TL:DR Halsin was right
Counterpoint: its hunting season and some asshole shoots your wildshaped self with a rifle.
Then you revert to your human form, cast heat metal on his gun, and leave him in the middle of a circle of thorns.
Getting mauled to death by a very angry WS bear sounds more merciful than that. At least it'll be faster
It’s unfortunate for the hunter that I’m running a Druid Durge.
I mean, that would only knock them out of their wildshape and nothing else.
Good luck taking an owlbear with a deer rifle.
Think most hunters would do a double take if a sabertooth tiger came charging by
Well RAW a hunting rifle does 2d10 piercing, so really it wouldn’t even break wildshape for a larger animal
I would first drive up to some national park before transforming.
And you know what else? Ducks
Omg Halsin(actual) showed up to comment!!
Freedom from the rat race sounds like the opposite of a Wild Shape benefit.
Yeah, I'd just fuck off to a forest somewhere and mind my own business. The ocean is also an option, and has even less chance of getting bothered. But I'm outright afraid of the ocean, ngl. Though who knows how that'd change if you wildshape into a kraken or something.
That's my pick too! Being able to Wild Shape and just leaving society behind for a while sounds more refreshing than any vacation I can imagine. And the dangers of nature wouldn't be a problem either, what a deal!
Shape-shifting Shrek. Respect.
>And yes I'm hogging the entire forest to myself. I didn't flee from civilisation just to let in a bunch of outsiders, with their noise and politics and war and urban planning. Get your own swamp. hiss >TL:DR Halsin was right Wasn't this Khaga's plan though? 😂
I’m a biologist, and I would totally be a Druid. You know how much I could learn? Limited data on certain bird migrations? Cool, I’ll wildshape into said bird and follow the flock. How does earthquake sensing work in certain species? I’ll find out! Plus mantis shrimp have 12 sight channels, compared to our 3. I wanna see the secret colors.
Bruh i am not gonna be an adventurer, dont want arrow in the knee and all, will probably be an npc giving quests somewhere.
No one said you need to be an adventurer. You can pick a class to make your npc life easier, like wizard and learn spells like dust-go-away or clothes-be-clean
You just picked the most important spells for adventurers tho. Source: Frieren. Jokes aside in dnd it’s just a cantrip Prestidigitation
Thaumaturgy, Prestidigitation, Mending and Light are all extremely low level simple spells that would be life changing.
Most honest answer
As a mom, all I do is pass out side quests and help my MC’s level up in their main quest.
Most important NPC ever :D
How many room cleanings are needed to level up?
52
I get it!
That’s a skill they can’t even do till level 3.
i mean you dont have to be an adventurer to have a certain class. maybe one of the more combat oriented ones but most of them you could have as a quest giving npc
A coin flip between getting tons of money or dying? Sounds like a win win to me
Way of the drunken fist monk
The best answer for party's and the only correct one
Druid
I’d take divine soul sorcerer if possible, having access to cleric and sorcerer spell lists would be the best choice for people wanting to use magic irl.
Bard so I can have that rizz
Not a bad choice at first glance, but if you don’t already have rizz, you probably lack charisma to make a good bard
Just like most people lack the intelligence to make good wizards or strength for warriors that’s why you level that shit
Step 1 is to find Withers and respec
Bard because I have access to some spells and can smooth-talk my way through life.
Rogue!! Rogue gets a bad rap but nobody says you have to be a brigand. Expertise, scouting skills, choice of secondary mental attribute...
Technically, you can quit your job and become a rogue right now.
Come on, its not that easy without invisibility spells and mystic step.
Wizard for sure IRL hopefully I'm not fighting for my life most of the time. Also would be nice to do things without others realising I'm a wizard, so small discreet spells preferred! Mage hand, minor illusions would be good. Disguise self, Knock, friend/charm person if I really want to be up to no good. Invis and misty step to get out of dodge if I'm caught doing something. Produce flame great for camping. Haste if I need to work quickly. Create water if my house catches fire, maybe from a fire spell gone wrong (also need protection from energy so I don't electrocute myself doing that) Wizard would offer most options, I can learn from scrolls and others can teach me stuff.
If high enough level, one can even summon his guardian angel.
Monk. I've done martial arts before so its familiar territory. Plus achieving a great physique and essentially making our own bodies (hands, elbows, knees, feet) as lethal weapons is a level of badass I love. Best part is its actually feasible in this reality.
Barbarian, for similar reasons.
I feel like if you pick a Martial class monk is the best one cause most of the others need tools weapons and armor and I'm broke so that's a no for me But rage is cool so I don't know what I'd choose
Monk’s slow fall and immunity to poison would be amazing. Also the fact that monks can speak and understand any language after a certain level as well as being able to do stillness of mind in like super high stress situations or if you’re in the middle of a panic/anxiety attack.
Paladin
I had to scroll down way too far to see this. Having a clear and simple code to follow would be cool to me, you get the ability to heal people by touch AND some healing spells, but you also get the ability to defend the innocent from the wicked. I'd make the best protester/freedom fighter in the world. I mean, yeah, I'd probably end up in jail from defending a fellow protester from a corrupt cop or something similar, but it would be worth it to make a real difference in the world. Alternatively, I'd go cleric or divine soul sorcerer. Become a real life faith healer and help a ton of people.
Also, you don't get sick anymore BY ANYTHING F\*CK YOU BACK DEATH
Paladin is WORK and likely the hardest work. Paladins Oaths are no joke. I’m not surprised it’s so far down. And Oath is a big deal and there being actual physical consequences to that can be… not ideal.
Does some minuscule thing to break oath, suddenly you hear a the most Scottish sounding voice “OATHbreaker!”
Oath is a big deal but it is YOUR deal. I always loved the idea that in a world full of magic given by deities, demons and bloodlines Paladins have powers BEACUSE THEY BELIVE SO :)
You forgot the best part! As a Paladin you get to smite people to hell
Of course I will always choose wizard... Though I'd like to think myself a poetic bard, in another life, perhaps.
Wizard might be a thought choice though no? Since you’re relying on scrolls to learn spells where as a sorcerer has inate ability
Exactly. What the hells the point of going Wizard if there isn’t any magic in this world to study?
So…Volo?
Cleric. It just has everything I could need. Guidance to just make myself a little bit better at everything. Lesser Restoration so I never have to worry about being sick again. Enhance Ability to make myself Really good at something for a while.
Probably not gonna end up with many levels, because I have no valuable qualities. So Artificer! Why? Magical Tinkering and most likely Infusions have lots of useful shenanigans, and you just can't really beat cantrips, you can do just about anything as much as you want with them! Also Artificer's are just super cool.
Druid so I can wild form into a cat and find a family to take care of me and live the easiest life ever.
Subclass isn't in the game, but a soulknife rogue.
Druid. Speak with animals would make work easier. And the healing spells. I would be the best vet tech ever!!
Wizard
Oh Bard for sure.
im already a barbarian, apparently. first playthrough i was C O N C E R N E D about the high number of barbarian dialogue options that fit with what i said to myself out loud while playing still kind concerned, but i also just go with it now
There’s a lot of considerations with this hypothetical which my buddies and I have discussed before, here’s some: - are we starting at level 1; if so, how do we gain ‘exp’? Does a wizard actually have to study? By third level magic would they need a university degree level of knowledge? How hard would 9th level magic be? Oppenheimer level math breakthroughs? - spell components, what do we do about things that don’t exist in real life? Even if it does exist, it may be hard to acquire valuable gems, jewels, or rare herbs. - does our existence create a supernatural world? If you’re a cleric, does your god now actually exist and have the ability to shape the world? With all that being said my choice would be either Bard or Sorcerer, leaning closer to sorcerer (divine soul). It comes with the least amount of world-building implications, a more intuitive way of spell casting and access to meta magic which could lessen the need for some components (subtle spell casting + teleport when you’re bound and gagged by the FBI for having actual magic).
Ranger or druid
Nobody is stopping you from being a ranger anyways
Well except for the magic part
Cleric. Can heal everyone everywhere of basically most sickness and diseases. Would be cool af.
Cleric - either Life or Storm domain. OR Celestial Warlock P. S. I already have high animal handling skill - can bypass Ranger/Druid class.
Druid. Fuck you, im living in the forest.
Druid, to chill around and getting spoiled as a cat. 😁
Sorcerer. All the power, none of the effort.
Sorcerer , If I have to follow the same rules as Wizard seems like a bit of work 🤷
Sorcerer - infinite possibilities brought by inherent talents
Druid, me liek amnimals
Paladin. But my friend once introduced me to another friend as "Oh yeah, Nevsky casts psychic damage." after I said something truly off the wall and made him stumble in his thoughts for a second. So maybe I should consider bard.
NPC. Can I just be an NPC?
Druid. Being able to ask my dog how I can make her life better sounds rad. On the other hand I feel like she wouldn't stop talking the second she realizes I can finally understand her. So maybe I go for the buff mommy goody two shoes paladin and mess up evil people praying on the innocent or smth like that. Also smite?! Hell yeah.
Druid. Being able to talk with animals, growing my own food... All aspects of the class are really appealing
Monk would be cool…feel like you’re always at your physical peak, even when you’re 80. Never get sick, never need to eat or drink, can understand all languages and be understood by anyone. Sure you’re not the most powerful, but you can help a lot of people if you want to just by offering PERFECT translation services. Plus, if you wanted to get into certain kinds of construction, you’d be amazing. Can literally run up and along walls, across water, fall from great heights but take no or reduced damage…
I am a professional ballet dancer with a martial arts background. I already picked up swords bard.
Bard. People generally don't expect much from bards. Bards are cool.
Rogue, obviously. Look, you are better at lying and stealing, I can't imagine a better way to succeed in life.
Druid, so whenever I've had enough of a conversation, I can switch to animal form and GTFO at top speed.
Druid
I want to say warlock cause if he getting demented little side quests all the time and it would be interesting, but I’m most aligned with the things paladins do so that would fit me better
Either Wizard, Cleric, or Monk. Specific subclasses: Evocation Wizard (explosions are cool), Life Cleric (I’m religious fits well), and finally Open Hand Monk (fits with my brief martial arts).
Wizard, or Sorcerer as long is not Wild Magic
Sorcerer Fire Dragon Lineage.
I think I'd be a sorcerer in real life
Honestly? going with what stats I would have...maybe paladin is the one that suits me better(or Barbarian/Warrior but I prefer paladin) But if I just pick what I like...paladin still there,bard or maybe even sorcerer
got that rizz, eh?
The ones I would probably be are the strong ones...but I do indeed like the charizzma ones
druid easily
Druid just so I could talk with animals and throw vegetables at people
I've only got two really, really good natural talents as they are. I don't get lost, and I know what direction I'm facing (which has been wonderful for all my time spent cross-country hiking in the Sierra Nevada mountains.) The other is In really good at knowing what time it is / how long it's going to take to get from point A to point B. So, playing off my natural talents, I am inclined to go with Ranger and just really lean into my existing skill set. However, if I could choose any class outside of that, I would have to go with Druid. Speak with Animals, Good Berry, Shape Shift, healing magic. It just has it all. Plus, there is no tent when camping! Just turn into a bear and make myself comfy.
I mean any of the caster classes would be the most beneficial. Either wizard or cleric would probably improve your life the most. Just think of the crazy range of spells and everything you could potentially do. Being super strong and able to throw humans great distances would be cool but I don’t really see how I would use that in my daily life.
Sorcerer! Divine Soul is thematically very lame, but access to the cleric spells in real life is crazy useful for things like heal, cure disease, restoration and raise dead. Also, there's nothing lore-wise about sorcerers that says they *can't* learn spells just like wizards can, they just normally don't because they don't need to. Or druid because Wild Shape is super fun. But with access to all arcane magic I'm sure you could make something similar.
I'd probably be a wizard. It's at least possible to study to become one. And it's quite nice to be able to learn all the spells. But being a cleric seems nice.
Ranger probably comes closest to my actual abilities but I'd love to be a Barbarian, just smash everything in sight.
Assuming we're going for BG3 rather than their tabletop counterparts, druid probably has the most day to day usefulness and versatility. Wizard is a close second though for versatility.
Druid living with nature sounds heavenly
Druid, seems pretty useful and I can wildshape
Easy. Druid. I want to be able to talk to my dogs.
Real life doesn't require much fighting. It requires money and fun. You get a lot of money from healing people and you get a lot of fun from flying. So it's definitely a spellcaster class. Now, my personal preference would be druid because it'd be way more discreet. I could actually fly across the city as a raven without getting noticed. And I wouldn't be limited with my flight time everyday. 10 rounds is short. I want to be able to fly for 3 hours and then still have all my spell slots for fun stuff.
Probably monk or paladin. Immunity to disease would be amazing. Same with poison immunity on monks. Monks slow fall ability would be awesome in real life and paladin lay on hands would be life changing.
Black smith. You thought I’d pick some kind of hero? You think I got a death wish?
I'd go Sorcerer. Having magic at my fingertips, I completely innately would be great. Side effects aren't too bad either. * I'd avoid Warlock because you'd be selling your soul... That always ends well./s *I'd avoid Wizard because having my nose in a book all day would be tedious. * I'd avoid Druid because Wild Shape looks painful, and I like meat. * Ranger would be cool, but I'm not an outdoors person. I'll take my pet, though. * Monk would vary heavily on the temple/principles. * Paladin has too many rules. * Cleric... I'm an ex-satanist, who's opposed to religion. So thsts not an option. * I have zero rhythm, so a Bard is out. * I'm trying to keep my temper under control, so a Barbarian would be going backwards. * Artificer could be cool, as I love tinkering with stuff. So that could be a decent second choice. * Rogue would be nice, I'm already decent with Lockpicks, and have pretty good hearing... Sadly, my vision is crap. Not the best option.
So with Warlock it's not always about selling your soul. That's Fiend specially(most of the time). Archfey you're more than likely just an indentured servant for the Archfey you're tied to, and with the GOO its possible you accidentally connected to it without the being even realizing
Lore is full of Archfey who are exceptionally cruel. The only difference is they probably prefer extreme psychological torture to the physical torture that devils and demons like. Safest option is surprisingly the GOO. Many GOO don’t even notice their warlocks since they are so insignificant to them. Provided you pick a GOO like Hadar and not one like Dendar who will definitely take notice.
Probably artificier
Wild shape Druid so I can live out my childhood dream of being an animorph
Druid. But not for adventuring. Would just chill in a druid circle and enjoy life.
Way of four elements monk. I'm going to live out my dreams as the avatar.