Spell Selection in the Real World

[drengnikrafe]

Many a time it has been that I have thought about magic if it were exist in real life. Then, one day, I had a thought: why restrict myself to random types of magic when I could make it more logical.

Thus, my question exists as follows: If magic were to exist in the real world, and you could use 3 spells as spell like abilites a number of times per day that was equal to 10 - the level of the spell (Magic Missle could be cast 9 times a day, Meteor Storm 1, Fireball 7, ect), which THREE spells would you choose.

Because it seems to be common courtasy, I'll start with my own choice.
Prestadigitation. (EDIT: Or maybe programmed amnesia...)
Eagle's Splendor (or whatever that INT boosting spell is)
Time Stop

[Saph]

Shapechange, Greater Teleport, and . . . uh . . . honestly, those first two are so good that I can't think of anything else. Maybe you should put a restriction on the spell level. :P

- Saph

[AstralFire]

Miracle. Glibness. Comprehend Languages.

I am now rich and I can smite/heal/whatever an unreasonable amount of people once a day if I need to.

[Emperor Tippy]

Mindrape
Wish
Greater Teleport (or prestidigitation or Shapechange)

Wish as an SLA means no XP cost which means I can wish up magic items.

[Sstoopidtallkid]

Greater Teleport.
The spell that lets you read a book by touching it.
Mindrape.

[Stupendous_Man]

Magnificent Mansion
Magic Missile
Secret Chest

[chiasaur11]

Manipulate form and shapechange should do me nicely.
Nigh-omnipotence is fun.

[Moff Chumley]

Shapechange
Mind Rape
Wish
I win.

[Collin152]

Mindrape.


Hmm...

Mindrape, and...
Suggestion.

Mindrape, Suggestion, and...

Hmm...

Mindrape, Suggestion and Dimension Door.

[Ascension]

Teleport, Greater Invisibility, Ray of Enfeeblement

Or maybe...

Greater Invisibility, Ray of Enfeeblement, Bull's Strength

The strong shall be made weak, the weak shall be made strong.

[AstralFire]

...I'm satisfied with making ungodly amounts of money without harming anyone by being the world's best translator and computer programmer ever, personally. Y'all taking mindrape are scaring me.

[Demons_eye]

The one druid spell that lets you turn berrys into gernades XD
fly
and.....
devine favor

[chronoplasm]

Prestadigitation
Dimension Door
Invisibility

[Pie Guy]

Greater teleport, mage hand and, honestly, fireball.

[Collin152]

...I'm satisfied with making ungodly amounts of money without harming anyone by being the world's best translator and computer programmer ever, personally. Y'all taking mindrape are scaring me.

Are you at all familiar with Death Note?

If so... that's me with a Mindrape ability.


If not... I pity your sad existance free of Xanatos Roulettes.

[Emperor Tippy]

...I'm satisfied with making ungodly amounts of money without harming anyone by being the world's best translator and computer programmer ever, personally. Y'all taking mindrape are scaring me.

What spell does computer programming? As for Mindrape, think about all of the good uses. Therapy, rehabilitation, addiction, education, etc. You can teach someone a life's worth of school in 6 seconds. You can cure a drug addict of the need or desire to do drugs. Lot's of uses that are good for society.

Plus it's useful to get out of traffic tickets.

[Collin152]

Plus it's useful to get out of traffic tickets.

That's why I took suggestion.
I can use it more often, and I don't have to hear every cop's life story just to get out of a fine.

[AstralFire]

Are you at all familiar with Death Note?

If so... that's me with a Mindrape ability.


If not... I pity your sad existance free of Xanatos Roulettes.

I don't really care for that sort of thing, honestly. What I've heard and read about Death Note, between its focus on chessmastery and the amoral characters, sounds like it's totally not for me. I like planner characters better when they don't have entire series based around them.

What spell does computer programming? As for Mindrape, think about all of the good uses. Therapy, rehabilitation, addiction, education, etc. You can teach someone a life's worth of school in 6 seconds. You can cure a drug addict of the need or desire to do drugs. Lot's of uses that are good for society.

Plus it's useful to get out of traffic tickets.

Depending on how you read it, Comprehend Languages.

And this is the CG in me, but I really don't like meddling in people's heads for any reason at all. Glibness does me fine for persuasive powers.

[Stupendous_Man]

Are you at all familiar with Death Note?

If so... that's me with a Mindrape ability.


If not... I pity your sad existance free of Xanatos Roulettes.

I must amend my list to incorporate Mind Blank

[Ascension]

What spell does computer programming?

That would be the Miracle, I assume.

What I'd do with Greater Invisibility, Ray of Enfeeblement, and Bull's Strength would be to sneak into schools, find the kids being bullied, Enfeeble the bully, give the victim a STR boost, and hope the kid beats the bully's face in.

[Khosan]

Black tentacles (great for parties)

Create Food and Water (great for unemployment)

Lesser Geas (just so I can be a jerk from time to time)

[snoopy13a]

Mass Heal- Might as well use the magic for good, right?

Overland Flight (I always choose flight as a theorectical superpower)

Locate Object- so I find stuff that I've lost

[Collin152]

That would be the Miracle, I assume.

I figured he referred to Comprehend Languages.

[Carrion_Humanoid]

Time Stop
Charm Person, Mass
Fireball

[FinalJustice]

Time Stop
Wish
....
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Defenestrating Sphere

What? I can bend time, reality and throw people out of the window when I'm bored!

[AstralFire]

Defenestrating Sphere would be fun to use, even if I'd feel guilty about it afterwards.

[Telonius]

Heal - Never get sick again, and become a famous faith healer!
Regeneration - Fix my own half-functioning eardrums, and help other people with severed limbs and organ damage.
Polymorph Any Object - Be whatever I want to be, and also be one heck of a plastic surgeon.

[Innis Cabal]

Avasculate
Transmute Flesh to Crystal-Great for Parties
Shatter-After Party Clean up

[Enlong]

Overland Flight,
Locate Object,
Greater Blink

I get my favorite power ever, flight, for hours a day, I can find objects when I lose them (highly useful for mundane life) and I get the power to move through solid objects without fear of being shunted out unless I stop in one. Nice ways to make mundane life less mundane and more convenient.

[Jack_Simth]

... as Spell-likes, so no XP cost?

Wish (any 8th level or lower Sor/Wiz spell, even 1/day, is very handy - Polymorph Any Object is 8th, so I can dupe that. 25,000 gp of gold, in D&D terms, is 500 pounds of gold... and gold generally goes for several hundred dollars... per OUNCE; likewise, any Cleric spell of 7th or lower - which includes Heal and Regenerate both).

Greater Teleport (7th level spell, so three times per day, to anywhere in the world... and it's really easy to get "seen once" in today's society...).

Miracle (any 8th level or lower Cleric spell, 1/day, is very handy - and it also includes any 7th level Sor/Wiz spell - which means I can do Permanency on effects)

Retire, see the world, and help people out while I'm at it ... without being parasitic on others.

Invisibility is also a good choice, but it's mostly useful for spying, theft and murder - parasite type stuff.