Thursday, January 23, 2025

d100 – Arcane Avocations: Magic User Hobbies & Sorcerous Sidelines

As a vocal proponent of making Wizards a little Weirder whenever possible, here’s a Table that contains some ideas for what they might be “up to” in their Towers with their Spare Time. While most of these pursuits might be more applicable to the High-Level Magic User, I’m sure that some might lay the groundwork for these goals at much Lower Levels.

These preoccupations and obsessions might find their way into a Player Character’s Mentor or even serve as ways to decorate the Towers/Spellbooks of the Mighty Magi they come into conflict with from time to time. I can definitely see using these in conjunction with my Mercurial Mentors and Magic Marginalia Tables to further flesh out these situations. A good number of these entries might also be pilferable for PC Patronage in the form of Adventure Hooks/Rumors to help a Wily Wonder-Worker realize or even potentially prevent them from achieving certain long-term goals.

Listening to “What's He Building?” by Tom Waits whilst perusing this Table is purely optional.

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