Awaiting inspiration

My daydreams are getting stuck again, because they're like
become wizard
learn many spells
make magic items
... that mostly do things that technology can now do.

Divine magic has a clear edge in healing, but arcane magic can make, like, goggles of night vision... which I could also buy... from a shop.

Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, but possibly cheaper.

And all the shapeshifting magic is awesome, except when I get down to it, what do I really want to use it for? For the length of a musical sequence it would be cool to be a fish or bird of squirrel, sure, but then what?

And the magics dont really scale up in Pathfinder. So you'd have individual hand crafted flying carpets, which take aaaaages each, cost an irreducible amount, and only have an advantage if you're, like, really commited to reducing carbon footprint one seat at a time.

Or aiming to fly to other planets. No fuel is a stupendous benefit if you're trying for distances like that. Even with one carpet's worth of thrust, if it just keeps going for like ten thousand years, sorted. And you can keep it inside for maintenance purposes, as long as there's a strong bit to push.

You'd have to know if magic stops working between planets though.

Finding out could be... awkward.


I am currently not enthused about going to other planets though. We'd still be humans so we'd still have all the same stuff to deal with, on another planet.


Being able to put shapeshifting magic in a hat or an elixir would be pretty cool.

Nation states would want to go all Mission Impossible with it though. That would be less cool.

You could do awesome cosplays with it. But it vaguely feels like cheating.
I mean if you made the whole costume yourself then making the body to go in it seems like a craft too.
But using a glamer to make people see something screen accurate is a different game than everyone else is playing.



I think the problem is said daydreams keep getting as far as 'a group of fellow adventurers! and we could have a home base! and live there!'
and then not going out on adventures.

... I am, like many lucky people, super extra bored of being alone in my flat.



Magic can Summon beings but I suspect it is a bad idea to Summon for purposes of, say, board games.
... I mean, not if you're super extra careful about their alignment, but a table full of Imps would be a terribad idea even before they decided to up the stakes.


So. Get magic. Something something profit?

Ah well.

Ideas will happen eventually.

JLI omnibus volume 2

I continue to read through the Justice League International omnibus, and I just read the Extremists arc.

Very drama and very Wacky. I like it.

But there's one bit that hits different after this year: ( Read more... )

It's just odd looking back and seeing how the threat level assessment was just... waaaaaay different. And not even because it was a quarter century ago. It would have looked reasonable even in 2019.

*big sigh*


So.

Other than that some big hero stuff is happening, with the JLI typical range of weird, so I like it.

It's just different.