Author Topic: What do you think are the top 10 iconic caster spells? (Read 8382 times)

carnivore · « **Reply #20 on:** April 13, 2010, 06:36:56 PM »

awesome video ....

Krika · « **Reply #21 on:** April 13, 2010, 09:54:49 PM »

You know, I would include Explosive Runes on that list. I have my reasons.....

And really, it can be a potentially awesome spell in the right situations.

Saxony · « **Reply #22 on:** April 13, 2010, 10:09:41 PM »

Cleric: Protection from Evil.

Druid: Animal Shapes/Shapechange. Summon Natural Ally?

Wizard: Hold Person. Contact Other Plane.

Sohala · « **Reply #23 on:** April 13, 2010, 11:33:57 PM »

Wish, Miracle, Genesis, Detect Magic, Awaken, Mage Armor

the_shadowmind · « **Reply #24 on:** April 14, 2010, 12:14:17 AM »

Quote from: Prime32 on April 13, 2010, 06:30:25 PM

Quote from: ninjarabbit on April 13, 2010, 01:17:26 PM
Fireball stopped being iconic in 3rd edition, it's iconness is just carryover from 1st and 2nd edition. In fact I'd be ROFLing in-character if a wizard/sorcerer casted a fireball at me.
It doesn't matter what it does (as long as it somehow inflicts fire damage). It wouldn't matter if scorching ray was called fireball. People just like casting a spell that's called fireball.

I think Lina prefers this one though, shame that the casting time is around a 1 round action

veekie · « **Reply #25 on:** April 14, 2010, 01:58:30 AM »

More like 2-3 rounds.

Endarire · « **Reply #26 on:** April 14, 2010, 02:27:51 AM »

"Hadoken!"

Choosing the top 10 for Wizards was especially troublesome. There are so many iconics.

Divine casters have less competition.

The_Mad_Linguist · « **Reply #27 on:** April 14, 2010, 06:00:27 AM »

I'm legally obligated to say "telekinesis" at this point.

DavidWL · « **Reply #28 on:** April 14, 2010, 05:26:55 PM »

How can we forget Miracle for a cleric?

NiteCyper · « **Reply #29 on:** April 14, 2010, 08:17:30 PM »

"These spells ... [a]re associated so heavily with a class that their frequent use is expected..."

You're implying the posters in this thread responding to the topic title are people who know about the classes. Is this what you mean explicitly?

Else, pop-culturally (descending): Jesus/God?, prophetic, LotR (I've only read "The Hobbit" and I don't remember what Gandalf did), Harry Potter, the Force (Star Wars), Dragonlance, The Inheritance Cycle (Christopher Paolini), the People/fairy folk (did I use the right terminology for the latter? Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer), His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman)

Endarire · « **Reply #30 on:** April 14, 2010, 09:01:38 PM »

It's part pop culture and part D&D. When pop culture people think Wizard, they typically think fireball or teleport, not glitterdust or repulsion.

When D&D people think Wizard, the smart ones think glitterdust.

Anklebite · « **Reply #31 on:** April 14, 2010, 09:41:15 PM »

Quote from: Endarire on April 14, 2010, 09:01:38 PM

It's part pop culture and part D&D. When pop culture people think Wizard, they typically think fireball or teleport, not glitterdust or repulsion.

When D&D people think Wizard, the smart ones think glitterdust.

yeah, glitterdust is pretty damn iconic, as well as damn pretty.

NiteCyper · « **Reply #32 on:** April 14, 2010, 10:38:42 PM »

Those are the three tiers: 1. Pop-culture, 2. casual DND, 3. veteran DND (CO). The order is from romantic to classical; fantasy to mechanical; beautiful to functional; good-looking to the thing that works good;

Havok4 · « **Reply #33 on:** April 14, 2010, 10:45:31 PM »

Quote from: NiteCyper on April 14, 2010, 10:38:42 PM

Those are the three tiers: 1. Pop-culture, 2. casual DND, 3. veteran DND (CO). The order is from romantic to classical; fantasy to mechanical; beautiful to functional;

That is oddly poetic.

veekie · « **Reply #34 on:** April 15, 2010, 02:17:30 AM »

I'd go with the pop cultural iconics myself.
Everyone relates, whereas the mechanically powerful ones are only recognized here, in CO.

Anklebite · « **Reply #35 on:** April 15, 2010, 02:30:06 AM »

Quote from: veekie on April 15, 2010, 02:17:30 AM

I'd go with the pop cultural iconics myself.
Everyone relates, whereas the mechanically powerful ones are only recognized here, in CO.

...if only more people understood that you are better off chucking a grease than a delayed blast fireball.

veekie · « **Reply #36 on:** April 15, 2010, 05:17:12 AM »

One is slapstick, the other is awesome as defined by Hollywood.

Jasuhn · « **Reply #37 on:** April 15, 2010, 02:30:11 PM »

Even though in a lot of video RPGs wizards lose this spell, in D&D, I'd still say lightning bolt is pretty iconic for a wizard. There's that silly larp video with the guy casting "Lightning bolt!"

Also, as someone else said fly.

And dispel magic. And identify and detect magic are also things I think of when I think of wizards casting spells.

Negative Zero · « **Reply #38 on:** April 15, 2010, 04:24:50 PM »

I think Clutch of Orcus is very iconic of the sort of Evil Cleric thing.

That or I'm getting Evil Clerics confused with Darth Vader.

Anklebite · « **Reply #39 on:** April 15, 2010, 04:57:57 PM »

Quote from: Negative Zero on April 15, 2010, 04:24:50 PM

I think Clutch of Orcus is very iconic of the sort of Evil Cleric thing.

That or I'm getting Evil Clerics confused with Indiana Jones villains.

fixed.

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