Shhh! No verbal spells aloud.

[Xarlen]

This btw is a terrible practise in my opinion. The players may as well not have even bothered with silence. What is the point of a character ability if its just going to be fudged out of existance when they use it effectively?

My sentiments exactly, Oni. I just want to get one or two Interesting spells off, and have the Silence stay on him. Sadly I can't get Tensors Transformation off, but something Else would be good, then he closes in for melee.

 

[Oni]

Personally if I was a wizard who just had silence cast on me, and I didn't really have anyway around it, I would hoof (or try to anyway, this can be hard if your cornered) and try to wait out the spells duration, at least they won't be able to hear you if you can manage to hide well.

 

[Xarlen]

The circumstances don't allow that, Oni. The Wizard is at the moment dealing with a ritual that will cure him of Corruption brought on by blight magic. The PCs are trying to stop the ritual. It's not like he can just fly off.

 

[Oni]

Sounds like they have already disrupted it. And if he is dead he won't be able to finish it anyway.

Anywho, just food for thought, hope it works out in a way that is fun for all.

 

[Xarlen]

Well, he doesn't have to be focusing on the ritual at hand for it to proceed. He just needs to be there when it goes.

Of course, the rogue is at the moment screwing up the Summoning Circle, so...

And, they don't PLAN on killing him.\

 

[bret]

Why is Rainbow Pattern bad in this case? Allow the mage to buy himself some time by causing a few of the PCs to (hopefully) become entranced.

Doesn't sound like the NPC wants to kill the PCs, so this sounds like a great way to deal with it. Purification rituals really shouldn't work in the presence of bloodshed.

 

[Xarlen]

Well, the NPC has an entire forest full of Druids, intelligent things, Dragons, so forth wanting to KILL HIM because he's a Blight Magic user. So he's going to be toating some seriously deadly stuff.

And the ritual won't purify him. The Unseelie fey he summons with the ritual will.

 

[Pielorinho]

Hmm. What about ruling that he'd devoted about half his spell slots to self-buffing spells -- endurance, cat's grace, mage armor, and the like. And maybe he has a contingency set up that when he blinks his eyes three times in a specific pattern, something beneficial happens. And maybe his familiar is somewhere nearby, watching and waiting for an opportunity to do something useful.

These would all make the fight somewhat tough, while not negating the silence spell.

Daniel

 

[Stalker0]

This btw is a terrible practise in my opinion. The players may as well not have even bothered with silence. What is the point of a character ability if its just going to be fudged out of existance when they use it effectively?

Well first of all, the wizard is going to have to use a silenced dispel magic, using up a 4th level spell and an action, so that's a preety good thing in my opinion.

And besides, we have to remember, that its hard to rp certain stats. I may be preety smart, but I don't have an 18 int or anything in real life and I don't live in the wizard's world. He's going to think of things I didn't. I do this with my players, I give some suggestions to player with high ints because penalizing the players for not being able to live up to those high stats is wrong. So in my mind, its equally wrong for the players to lose a chance at an epic battle just because I couldn't keep up with a wizard's int.

 

[Piratecat]

It seems to me that this is where he falls back on one-shot magic items - beads from a necklace of fireballs, potions, and the like. That's much easier, and a bit more kosher, than trying to massage his spells.