wizard gimmicks that dont make everybody mad

Xango · Post by **Xango** » Sat Jan 20, 2018 12:08 pm #374537

So today I got wizard, it was semi lowpop and I didnt really wanna murderbone so I just got two apprentices, a spellblade and a battlemage armor. I cut off around 40 legs (literally) with my spellblade, killed an ERT and a deathsquad and took a blob out with a death squaddie's pulse rifle. I don't think that gimmick was enjoyable and caused about 10 people to suicide/ghost out of rage since I delimbed them but the community hates friendly wizards even more so what can I do that isn't murderboning?

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Sat Jan 20, 2018 12:32 pm #374545

that round really went out on a limp

Jarek · Post by **Jarek** » Sat Jan 20, 2018 12:55 pm #374553

Turn everyone into zombies it works every time

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Sat Jan 20, 2018 1:06 pm #374554

Wizard is designed to make people mad, it's intended as the wacky free-for-all to prevent RP overdose.

RP overdose isn't a real hazard on /tg/, though.

CPTANT · Post by **CPTANT** » Sat Jan 20, 2018 1:41 pm #374559

You can spam magic missile and ei nath.

Nobody ever gets mad from that right?

Limski · Post by **Limski** » Sat Jan 20, 2018 2:06 pm #374564

List of wizard gimmicks that don't make everybody mad:

leibniz · Post by **leibniz** » Sat Jan 20, 2018 2:13 pm #374565

Limski wrote:List of wizard gimmicks that don't make everybody mad:

constructs

John_Oxford · Post by **John_Oxford** » Sat Jan 20, 2018 2:20 pm #374567

you could sit in your ship for 45 minutes and watch as the station kills itself anyways

then go in and teleport somewhere non descript, take all your robes off, put on a assistant outfit and take a normal name then complete your objectives normally among the chaos.

no one can be mad at you if they don't know its wizard.

TheWiznard · Post by **TheWiznard** » Sat Jan 20, 2018 2:50 pm #374569

John_Oxford wrote:you could sit in your ship for 45 minutes and watch as the station kills itself anyways

then go in and teleport somewhere non descript, take all your robes off, put on a assistant outfit and take a normal name then complete your objectives normally among the chaos.

no one can be mad at you if they don't know its wizard.

except for ghosts who always get wizard and know the ins and outs of the role and would be so much better than the current wizard if only they were the wizard instead

Stickymayhem · Sat Jan 20, 2018 4:21 pm

Best thing I've seen is to be an absolute fucking asshole without killing anyone. Evade, annoy, damage and be impossible to catch. Everyone will end up chasing you and killing you is extremely satisfying

Post by **Armhulen** » Sat Jan 20, 2018 4:35 pm #374587

fully upgrade magic missile, mostly upgrade forcewall and do what sticky says around the main hallways

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Sat Jan 20, 2018 5:14 pm #374602

Isn't flesh-to-stone reversible?
Because if you couple that with MM it seems like it could be really fun.

bman · Post by **bman** » Sat Jan 20, 2018 6:35 pm #374640

get maximum flesh to stone and ask for admins to make it robeless and for you to have a lizard tongue (optional), then name yourself medusa and change your appearance to a woman with long hair 2 (very dark green or black). when you get on the station get a greysuit and radio to begin your plan; find people in the hallway and transform them, proceedingly, quickly jump around from locker to hallway to potted plant waiting for your cooldown to run out, rinse and repeat.

the statues turn back but it takes some time and if you smash the statues the people die but i dont do that, make sure to turn people in public areas so that everyone is terrorized by the sight of the captain, hos, and hop all turned into stones in the public hallways.

momentarily "ssSsssS" into your radio to alert people of your presence.

original basilman tm gimmick.

Kitten · Post by **Kitten** » Sat Jan 20, 2018 6:54 pm #374646

force round end

Anonmare · Post by **Anonmare** » Sat Jan 20, 2018 10:56 pm #374709

MM + Flesh-to-Stone + Staff of Animation

Stickymayhem · Wed Oct 13, 2021 6:17 pm

Constructs is also pretty good to be honest. Keeps people in the round at least. Skeleton army same deal.

The core issue with wizard is it's very hard to do anything fun because wizards are so dangerous they are instantly valided with full force wherever possible. I'd love to be able to monologue in a hallway with a bunch of skeleguards without having to spam magic missiles to do so.

Denton · Post by **Denton** » Sat Jan 20, 2018 11:02 pm #374713

Max events + summon guns/spells

factoryman942 · Sat Jan 20, 2018 11:03 pm

bluespace apprentice and four poly staff

Dr_bee · Post by **Dr_bee** » Sat Jan 20, 2018 11:18 pm #374719

I have actually managed to run a magic show in the bar twice without the round being completely ruined.

I mean it eventually turns into a normal wizard round as the crew will almost always ruin the show, usually to try to get valids, but thats half the fun. You get to roleplay a pissed off magician.

Aloraydrel · Post by **Aloraydrel** » Sun Jan 21, 2018 12:33 am #374749

4 mindswap apprentice and mindswap

existence_success · Sun Jan 21, 2018 12:35 am

suicide roundstart

Zarniwoop · Post by **Zarniwoop** » Sun Jan 21, 2018 6:37 am #374847

Throw out your spellbook and start talking to the admins. Not asking them to spawn loot for 5 players. Maybe ask for sleeping carp, a wrestling belt and blood crawl then start a dojo cult. Use your imagination, think up a gimmick before you ever get wiz (because you're never getting it, chump). Mindswap Apprentices taking over Command can be fun, not enough people use it to dedicate the full force of the station to erecting dank memes. I'd personally like to do the mindswap command thing sometime and then enact a slow-crawl into full-blown fascism, systematically murderboning the entire crew through bureaucracy and propaganda (aimed mostly at liggers).

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Sun Jan 21, 2018 11:37 am #374901

>fascism
nanotrasen is communist

Xango · Post by **Xango** » Sun Jan 21, 2018 11:50 am #374902

Zarniwoop wrote:Not asking them to spawn loot for 5 players.

Can you quit taking everything out of fucking context Dagum? That loot was for a DND "event" kinda thing. I already told you that we talked about it in ahelps...

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Sun Jan 21, 2018 11:56 am #374906

nobody would have noticed
nobody would have cared
but you had to say something

Xango · Post by **Xango** » Sun Jan 21, 2018 8:27 pm #374954

DemonFiren wrote:nobody would have noticed
nobody would have cared
but you had to say something

I dont... understand...

Gun Hog · Post by **Gun Hog** » Mon Jan 22, 2018 1:43 am #375006

Summon Magic + Summon Guns + Summon Events. EVERYONE gets to participate, like it or not!!!! Throw in a laughter (NOT slaughter) demon for more lulz.

Anonmare · Post by **Anonmare** » Mon Jan 22, 2018 2:17 am #375013

Re-add the Multiverse Sword

Post by **NikNakFlak** » Mon Jan 22, 2018 4:00 am #375026

Aloraydrel wrote:4 mindswap apprentice and mindswap

This is the best

Mon Jan 22, 2018 10:38 pm

5x blink
go around disarming people then dissapearing to rustle them

twin fucks · Post by **twin fucks** » Thu Apr 19, 2018 3:25 am #401266

get a stand and time stop and then scream about jojo references or something

MaximumOverlizard · Sat Apr 21, 2018 1:57 am

2: Scrying Orb
2: Stop Time
2: Blink
2: Ethereal Jaunt
2: Curse of the Barnyard

Steal mesons/Night Vision Mesons, animal-face people from maintenance nonstop, flee if detected. Be a massive nuisance without removing anyone from the round.

Doctor Pork · Post by **Doctor Pork** » Sat Apr 21, 2018 4:05 am #401943

The other day I was playing a round where the wiz infiltrated sec as the warden and was slowly converting people to skeletals.

It was tight.

Post by **Arianya** » Sat Apr 21, 2018 12:33 pm #401983

MaximumOverlizard wrote:2: Scrying Orb
2: Stop Time
2: Blink
2: Ethereal Jaunt
2: Curse of the Barnyard

Steal mesons/Night Vision Mesons, animal-face people from maintenance nonstop, flee if detected. Be a massive nuisance without removing anyone from the round.

Scrying Orb already gives you xray vision

MaximumOverlizard · Sat Apr 21, 2018 11:02 pm

Yeah, but when you combine Night Vision Mesons with X-ray, it gives you perfect vision.

somerandomguy · Sat Apr 21, 2018 11:04 pm

MaximumOverlizard wrote:Yeah, but when you combine Night Vision Mesons with X-ray, it gives you perfect vision.

Pretty sure it gives you nightvis too

Bluespace · Post by **Bluespace** » Sun Apr 22, 2018 12:56 am #402095

perfect vision is night/x-ray vision you dope.
augmented eyesight + mesons will give you perfect vision as a ling too which is pretty op.

the other day a wizard went full timestop and just stood in the brig. anytime someone would shoot at him he'd just sidestep and security was literally buckshotting each other to death while the wizard had a timestop cooldown of like half a second, he only died when there was like 15 lasers trying to shoot him.

somerandomguy · Sun Apr 22, 2018 1:11 am

Bluespace wrote:perfect vision is night/x-ray vision you dope.
augmented eyesight + mesons will give you perfect vision as a ling too which is pretty op.

You can't see objects though.

MaximumOverlizard · Sun Apr 22, 2018 4:23 am

X-ray + Night Vision of any type sees everything, but Mesons are the easiest to get because the cargo protolathe is always stocked. Medical and Security being stocked so you can jack Night Vision Sec/Med HUDs is much less common.

Godzillan · Post by **Godzillan** » Sun Apr 22, 2018 6:50 am #402133

Shapeshift + Mindswap is Magic Missile + Ei Nath but objectively cooler.