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[Reynard]

I wear glasses at times (night driving, mostly), but I just find them odd on D&D adventures, mostly because magic would fix any vision issues, right? So, a PC as "powerful" as this one "seems" to be, it just strikes me as strange.

How common is greater restoration in your world?

 

[TwoSix]

I wear glasses at times (night driving, mostly), but I just find them odd on D&D adventures, mostly because magic would fix any vision issues, right? So, a PC as "powerful" as this one "seems" to be, it just strikes me as strange.

They could also be any number of D&D-specific magic items, such as eyes of minute seeing or eyes of the eagle.

 

[ezo]

How common is greater restoration in your world?

How common is globe of invulnerability in yours?

Besides, lesser restoration removes the blinded condition--which seems sufficient to me for fixing poor vision.

They could also be any number of D&D-specific magic items, such as eyes of minute seeing or eyes of the eagle.

True, great point! That isn't how we do the fiction of such items, but that would make much more sense IMO.

 

[KYRON45]

9 pages and no one has blamed 4e yet. It's like I don't even know you people anymore!!!*

*the previous message was sarcasm

 

[FitzTheRuke]

What fiction? That is part of the issue I take with it.

Whatever fiction the image invokes for you.

To me, if someone gives you a story seed (without any other details) then you take that seed and run with it. You don't spend time arguing with the seed.

To me, this is fundamental D&D.

Maybe she's been blasted by a Gust of Wind and her intelligent flying staff has decided to cast a protection spell on her. I don't know. The point is that it could be anything that happens in any D&D game - which is infinite possibilities.

 

[Reynard]

Besides, lesser restoration removes the blinded condition--which seems sufficient to me for fixing poor vision.

Traditionally, magic can't fix inherent flaws.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I wouldn't have said she was young. About 50, doesn't dye her hair, does use a very good anti-wrinkle cream.

You got me. I originally wrote "young-ish", but ditched the ish. Probably should have left it.

 

[mamba]

a) it looks like mtg art the mystical sigils stuff is fairly standard as magic has to look like something and few seem to be inventing an alternative.

sure it has to look like something, but there are tons of spells that do look very different from this

The sphere and symbols made me think Dr Strange

b) the only way I can see you getting Wakanda from that art sounds rather accusatory and I would prefer not to start a fight, do you catch my meaning? I am assuming it is something else just for the record

black, sleek modern-ish clothes, glasses, metal staff, for a comic universe that comes close to Wakanda to me, chances are there are others (not much into comics), but that one comes to mind for me thanks to two movies

I have no issue with the character being black, my objection was not about skin color at all, it was about style

 

[mamba]

black and awesomely stylish looking

yep, pretty much that, also could not think of the name Storm, I knew there was one, just not which one

It’s not like the Dr Stange connection is all that deep in comparison, round glowy stuff with symbols, that is it

 

[TwoSix]

True, great point! That isn't how we do the fiction of such items, but that would make much more sense IMO.

The art images from the DMG/D&D Beyond show them as being crystal lenses in some kind of mask or spectacle holder. I think that's a change from earlier versions where they were more like contacts, but honestly works better for me. Less "body modification" feel, and more "artificer".