#dnd casters

[cervinayyy]

Are you new to D&D? Think caster classes are complicated and hard to learn? Do you want to understand how each caster class works in one easy analogy? Then this is for you!

Let's think of casting spells as cooking. When cooking (casting spells) you need to:

1. Have a way to learn the recipe. (Known Spells)

2. Prepare the recipe. (Prepared Spells)

3. Eat the recipe. (Spell Slots)

The way each caster class does spells is different, but they can be categorized into 3 separate groups:

Prepared Casters, Spontaneous Casters, and Wizards.

With this in mind, we can categorize them by how each class learns their recipes (known spells) as well as how they get ready to make them (prepared spells).

Prepared Casters: These casters have access to any recipe they could ever need. Think of it like having access to Google, or Pinterest (known spells). If they want a recipe, they just spend their morning finding what they want, grocery shopping and getting it ready (prepared spells). They can make any food you give them a recipe for.

Spontaneous Casters: These casters don't have internet. They do, however, have a few recipe books (known spells). They have few really good recipes that they like, and have basically memorized these recipes. They always have the ingredients to make their favourite things (prepared spells).

Wizards: A grouping of their own, they are somewhat a combination of the two. Wizards do not use Google or Pinterest, they're better than that. Any recipe they like, they compile into a recipe blog (known spells). Their recipe blog is pretty full, any time they find a new recipe that they like they can add it to their blog, though adding new recipes can sometimes be costly (they need materials to copy down the recipe). That said, like prepared casters, they do their grocery shopping in the morning, when they'd decide what recipes they're going to make that day (prepared spells).

The next section is spell slots. If you make the food, you have to eat it too, right? Spell slots are basically how much a given caster can eat.

All full casters (Druids, Bards, Clerics, Wizards, Sorcerers) have the capacity to eat a decent amount of food.

Half casters (Paladins, Rangers), can only eat a portion of the food that they make.

Warlocks are weird, the food they make is always top notch, but they can't eat very much of it (they cast their spells at the highest level they can and don't have many spell slots). That said, their metabolism is beefy as hell and after a few hours of rest they can eat again.

I'll probably add a section to this later to explain regaining spell slots. If anyone has any additions they wanna make, please go for it!

[cursed-nyxan]

A few of my DnD babies ❤️ From left to right Jacqueline (wizard), Saelseris (warlock), Ravenna (sorcerer) and YohLanda (also wizard).

I like to think they would be good friends. YohLanda is the only lawful one among them and since her backstory includes she was a teacher I wanted to draw her with my chaotic trio. Pretty sure that's why she quit.

[dndumb]

Almost forgot to remake this since I started dndads.

But alas, the time has come for another dnd podcast to burrow its way into my brain and cause irreparable damage.

[supersappho]

i made a party for Red and Serena and am currently trying to figure out their dynamics together

theyre a bunch of strong personalities who are forced to party together and in order graduate magic school they have to learn to get along🫡

[moss-cola]

Ruler of everything

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[essektheylyss]

me, making a PC playlist: is Marina really an appropriate choice for an exhausted, four hundred year old grizzled war mage?

me, a split second later: what the fuck am I talking about. that's the demographic Marina makes music for.

[fidgetspringer-art]

Olath - Aberrant familiar

[hermit-dragon]

Being a paladin in DnD is the best thing ever. You get to heal your buddies. You get to hit people with sharp objects. You get to cast spells. You get to cast spells to help you hit people with sharp objects. You have the power of god and anime on your side. What's not to love.

[brekfastserial]

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

“Unlike warlocks and sorcerers, wizards actually work for their magic” unless higher education is free and open to all in your universe, that just means a wizard’s powers come from having the financial resources and upper class backing to attend university in the first place.

[rohange]

Just a warlock and her patron :)

He's my favourite Disney villain

[adventures-in-poor-planning]

I don't care about practicality tiers, Goad is the best dnd feat and I want to take it on every character I ever make. "What if you were so fucking annoying your opponents literally could not focus on anyone else".

[wall-e-gorl]

Half a comic for day one: fave arc/ roll for au! i rolled podcast au, and when i went to spotify to look at my list, i actively had Midnight Burger open and thats perfect so i had to.

What podcast do i mash with the "train traveling dimensions as she gains sentience and godhood while the staff deals with resulting problems" crew other than the "time space universe traveling diner solves problems with the power of science and friendship and jesus (but in a good way)" podcast?

edit: part two here!

[foldingfittedsheets]

So my tiefling bard Orion is a One DnD build where they made bards prepared casters because that’s obviously better in every way. The only downside was that I got the Arcane Spell list but only certain types of magic like illusion, divination, transmutation. But not the powerful wizardy blow stuff up spells.

So I had to go through and diligently check the school of magic on each spell and I made a document called Spells I Can Cast. And then I went and cross referenced that against the bard spell list that included supplementary material and then my DM went through and took some of those bard specific spells away because they were the wrong school of magic.

And the new way they did Magical Secrets is that you just pick one of the three spell lists and have access to the entire list. Every day I get to prepare two spells from a different list. I picked Arcane because we have a cleric and Druid so I didn’t need Divine or Primal spells.

So this morning I went through and supplemented the rest of the Arcane Spell list into my document but now I have to cross reference supplemental bard and wizard spells into it. And because I’ve never played a wizard I’m gonna read through all those spells and annotate ones I think will be useful.

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