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Old 05-31-2021, 07:06 PM   #7
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Default Re: How many spells can an Octapus Mage cast per second?

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Originally Posted by Steve Plambeck View Post
Just my own conceit, but I like to think of dragons (being magical in nature themselves) as born knowing and understanding all the spells, including a few the rest of us have lost, forgotten, or never heard of.

Thus they aren't fooled or surprised by any spell, and understand the limits (costs and duration). But they never cast any, because, well, they're dragons and feel "above all that". It would hurt a dragon's pride too much to ever need to use one.
Someday I'll exploit the plot point inferred by this: a dragon could teach a wizard a spell, perhaps one they couldn't learn from anyone else, but what on earth could a wizard offer a dragon in return? After all, they (usually) don't need anything from us, and what they do want they just take.
That sounds cool. What a great idea for an adventure!
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I think of demons the same way, knowing all spells but using none. Here of course the RAW speak to the matter, saying demons never use spells, but that doesn't rule out that they could understand everything about them.
I've never grokked that part of the demon description. It seems to me that they are a whole lot more interesting if they do use spells. Otherwise, they are pretty easy to take advantage of, especially the nerfed LE versions.
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