Alternate Game Food Mage spell inspiration : Pastamancer
Oct 26, 2017 4:03:52 GMT
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Post by randosaurus on Oct 26, 2017 4:03:52 GMT
I have been listening to the pod regale listeners with tales of the food mage for some time.
It has bothered me, however, as another game has already created 'food mages' for purposes comedic.
Kingdom of Loathing, a daily text based adventure game, has two such classes: the Pastamancer and Sauceror (both clearly parodies of D&D).
I have recreated here some ideas from KoL skills/spells for your food mage, should you wish to turn up the heat and humor in your encounters.
The pastamancer casts spells that frequently deal a random type of elemental damage, it should be noted.
Pastamancer
With her mastery of the arcane secrets of Noodlecraft, the Pastamancer is a force to be reckoned with. She relies on her Mysticality to get ahead in the world.
Skills
Most Pastamancer skills are learned from The League of Chef-Magi. All Pastamancers begin the game with Manicotti Meditation and Spaghetti Spear.
Manicotti Meditation
By meditating on your Manicotti Mandala, you can achieve oneness with the pasta which makes up the underlying structure of reality. Your Magicalness will increase for a period of time. (+2 CL, 1 hour per level max 5, self-only)
Spaghetti Spear
This spell conjures a fast-moving dart of spaghetti and slings it at your enemy, dealing a small amount of damage. Uncooked spaghetti, that is. Cooked spaghetti wouldn't do much damage, now, would it?
1d3 force damage + 1 per level max 5
Ravioli Shurikens
This spell allows you to summon a handful of deadly ravioli shurikens, stuffed with various flavors of pain. Deals 1d3+1 per level (max +5) damage in a random element 3 times
Utensil Twist
Anybody can use a utensil, but not everybody can use it to bend the laws of physics. Adds your key ability bonus to weapon damage, but only if wielding a utensil (spatula, spoon, pizza cutter)
Entangling Noodles
This spell allows you to conjure a wad of sticky noodles, which slow down your opponent and make its attacks less effective. Creates Entangling Vines for rounds equal to caster level
Transcendent Al Dente
You think about almost nothing but pasta, but sometimes you like to take some time to think about it on a deeper level. This skill allows you to spend an hour doing that, resulting in a significant increase in your magical potential. (2 bonus spells per day available from your prepared or know spells)
Lasagna Bandages
This spell summons some enchanted lasagna noodles, which can be used as bandages, healing some of your HP. Heals 3d10 HP to carb-based creatures such as your pasta thrall.
Bind Vampieroghi
This skill allows you to bind the spirit of a vampire into a pieroghi and bend it to your will, as long as your will is more or less "bite stuff for me," since that's basically all vampieroghis are good at. Summons a Vampieroghi thrall
Cannelloni Cannon
This spell allows you to summon and then fire a cannon made of cannelloni and stuffed with all manner of deadly substances. Deals 1d8 damage per level (max 10d8) of a random element
Arched Eyebrow of the Archmage
When it comes to magic, presenting an intimidating facade is almost as important as actually knowing how to tear people apart with your mind. (+1 Spell Damage per level max +10, 1 hour per level max 10 hours)
Replaces other Facial Expressions.
Pastamastery This skill allows you to summon forth noodles from thin air, and to cook delicious food by combining them with sauces.
Allows you to cook with dry noodles.
Allows you to summon three dry noodles per day.
Bind Vermincelli
All of the rats slain by all of the Adventurers in all of the history of tavern basements left vengeful spirits behind, and this skill allows you to befriend one of them and use it as your own personal servant. I'm sure it'll be thrilled. Summons a Vermincelli thrall
Springy Fusilli This skill infuses your body with the springy spirit of spiral pasta, putting a spring in your step and making you more nimble in combat. Grants haste for 1 round per level (max 10)
Bringing Up the Rear
Taking cover behind one of your pasta thralls allows you to cast your spells more carefully, and get more out of them. Doubles the damage of Pastamancer combat spells if you have a pasta thrall active and it blocks enemy line of sight.
Spirit of Rigatoni
This skill will give you the ability to equip Chefstaves -- powerful one-handed staves that act as conduits for advanced Chef-Magery.
Bind Angel Hair Wisp
The wisps of the underworld are notoriously fickle with their allegiances, but you've learned how to trick... er... convince one of them to help you. At least for now. Summons an Angel Hair Wisp thrall
Stuffed Mortar Shell
This spell summons a massive mortar shell made of pasta and stuffed with various flavors of arcane shrapnel. This bomb bursting in air will give proof through the night that your foe has suffered some serious trauma. Deals 2d8+2 per 2 level (max 15d8 + 30) of a random element on the next round after cast (usable once per fight)
Shield of the Pastalord
Despite what you may think, pasta isn't all about destruction. Sometimes, like in the case of this spell, it's about defense. And you've heard that the best defense is a good defense. (damage reduction 3/magic, 1 hour per 2 levels, max 10 hours)
Spirit of Ravioli
This skill infuses your body with the essence of ravioli, making it much sturdier. It will increase your maximum HP by 25%.
Bind Undead Elbow Macaroni
Remember those macaroni guys you fought, way back in the day, when you first started adventuring? Well, how'd you like to have one of those guys of your very own. Sound good? Well, good thing you know this skill, then! Summons an Undead Elbow Macaroni thrall
Weapon of the Pastalord
This spell will summon forth one of the myriad randomly-generated weapons of the Pastalord, the sworn protector of the order of Pastamancers in the Days of Old. That weapon will then beat your opponent about the head or head-analogue Deals 1d8+1 damage per level (max 20d8+20) of a random element. When spells are tuned to a specific element, this spell deals half elemental damage (rounded down) and the rest physical damage.
Thrall Unit Tactics
You've learned to work in perfect concert with your pasta thralls -- letting them take the brunt of every attack, ordering them into dangerous situations in your stead, generally insulting and demeaning them. But good news -- now you can give something back, by constantly draining a portion of their life force and using it to make your spells cheaper! Allows double casting of Pastamancer combat spells when you have an active pasta thrall Passive
Leash of Linguini
This spell allows you to call forth an enchanted leash made out of noodles, which is placed around the neck of your familiar. This effectively raises your familiar's level by 5, but the noodles will deteriorate after 1 hour per level (Max 15 hours) have passed.
Bind Penne Dreadful
You have learned to bind a hard-boiled skeleton detective to your service. It'll come in handy if on some stormy night a dame walks into your office with legs all the way down. Summons a Penne Dreadful thrall
Cannelloni Cocoon
This spell summons forth a huge Cannelloni, which envelops you and heals all of your wounds. Heals all HP.
Subtle and Quick to Anger
People better not meddle in your affairs, because you will cook them into a freakin' lasagna if they do. Spell Damage +10%
Tolerance of the Kitchen
They say that if you can't stand the heat, you should get out of the kitchen. Well, with this skill, you'll be able to stand the heat. Any heat. Provides Resistance to first 10 damage from any Fire source.
Bind Lasagmbie
This skill allows you to bind a lumbering lasagmbie to your service. You wanted grunting and lurching and the flesh of the living, right? Because that's the service you're going to get. Summons a Lasagmbie thrall
Flavour of Magic
This spell will allow you to bring your mystical being in line with the elemental forces that underlie all things: earth, wind, fire, water, and heart. Wait, I mean fire, ice, mental, poison, and profane. And what's the deal with 'heart' anyway? How does that make any sense at all? Makes damage spells do a specific form of elemental damage:
Spirit of Cayenne (fire damage)
Spirit of Peppermint (cold damage)
Spirit of Garlic (poison damage)
Spirit of Wormwood (profane damage)
Spirit of Bacon Grease (mental damage)
Also adds +10 Spell Damage.
Includes a sixth spirit, Spirit of Nothing, that deactivates the skill.
Wizard Squint
After "gray hair" and "a beard," the most common answer on The $20,000 Pyramid when the category is "Things a Wizard Has" is "squinty eyes." The fourth one, strangely, is "one of my lungs."
Wizard Squint
Spells with an attack roll have double critical threat range.
(1 hour per level max 20)
Replaces other Facial Expressions.
Transcendental Noodlecraft
You have achieved the highest possible level of Pastamancy -- you are now capable of making meals that rival the Platonic ideal of the dish of noodles.
Allows you to summon two additional dry noodles per day.
Lets you cook more advanced noodle dishes.
Bind Spice Ghost
This skill allows you to enthrall a spice ghost, an ethereal being who, being made of a diffuse cloud of floating spice particles, can help you get into those hard-to-reach places where your enemies tend to keep their stuff. Summons a Spice Ghost thrall
Fearful Fettucini
This spell summons a mass of fettucini noodles made not of semolina, or of farina, but of pure, uncut terror. Deals 1d8+1 per level (max 10d8 +10) Profane Damage
Tempuramancy
You've learned the secrets of deep-sea thermal vents, and the ways in which they relate to the secrets of battermaking, which you already knew. Lets you create tempura dishes from bubbling tempura batters.
Candyblast
The ability to summon pasta from thin air is pretty sweet, but this lets you conjure something even sweeter -- a massive barrage of candy. Deals 1d4+1 per level (max 5d4+5) physical damage, may drop candy with potion effects.
Stringozzi Serpent
This spell allows you to conjure up a venomous serpent made of wriggling noodles. Deals 1d8+1 (max 5d8+5) poison damage, deals additional poison effect.
Canticle of Carboloading
This ode to the Pastalords has the effect of making the next thing you eat swell up with starchy goodness, thus granting you more energy than it otherwise would have. Unfortunately, it's only usable once per day -- any more than that and you'd run the risk of exploding. Gives an extra 3 bonus spells (once per day) from the next pasta dish you eat.
Bind Spaghetti Elemental
Your research into ancient cult rituals has taught you how to bind a spaghetti elemental to your service. Summons a Spaghetti Elemental thrall
Pastamancer Level Titles
Level Title Mysticality
1 Dough Acolyte
2 Yeast Scholar
3 Noodle Neophyte
4 Starch Savant
5 Carbohydrate Cognoscenti
6 Spaghetti Sage
7 Macaroni Magician
8 Vermicelli Enchanter
9 Linguini Thaumaturge
10 Ravioli Sorcerer
11 Manicotti Magus
12 Spaghetti Spellbinder
13 Cannelloni Conjurer
14 Angel-Hair Archmage
15 Pastamancer
Pasta Thralls: Pastamancers can summon a Pasta Thrall to them which provide additional effects during combat. Pasta Thralls can gain experience, and gain new effects at levels 5 and 10. Both summoned Thralls and trying to bind a Thrall for its Non-Pastamancer effect will dismiss any other Thrall or remove other Non-Pastamancer effects.
+5% Elemental Resistance: Pastamancers (and Saucerors) have an innate resistance: 1 to elemental damage. This resistance applies only to damage, and will not pass tests that check for levels of elemental resistance.
Spells from Pasta: Pastamancers regain bonus when eating pasta dishes, based on the fullness of the dish.
Pastamancers who have passed their guild's test can access Gouda's Grimoire and Grocery.
Pastamancers can cast Spaghetti Spear in combat at will.
It has bothered me, however, as another game has already created 'food mages' for purposes comedic.
Kingdom of Loathing, a daily text based adventure game, has two such classes: the Pastamancer and Sauceror (both clearly parodies of D&D).
I have recreated here some ideas from KoL skills/spells for your food mage, should you wish to turn up the heat and humor in your encounters.
The pastamancer casts spells that frequently deal a random type of elemental damage, it should be noted.
Pastamancer
With her mastery of the arcane secrets of Noodlecraft, the Pastamancer is a force to be reckoned with. She relies on her Mysticality to get ahead in the world.
Skills
Most Pastamancer skills are learned from The League of Chef-Magi. All Pastamancers begin the game with Manicotti Meditation and Spaghetti Spear.
Manicotti Meditation
By meditating on your Manicotti Mandala, you can achieve oneness with the pasta which makes up the underlying structure of reality. Your Magicalness will increase for a period of time. (+2 CL, 1 hour per level max 5, self-only)
Spaghetti Spear
This spell conjures a fast-moving dart of spaghetti and slings it at your enemy, dealing a small amount of damage. Uncooked spaghetti, that is. Cooked spaghetti wouldn't do much damage, now, would it?
1d3 force damage + 1 per level max 5
Ravioli Shurikens
This spell allows you to summon a handful of deadly ravioli shurikens, stuffed with various flavors of pain. Deals 1d3+1 per level (max +5) damage in a random element 3 times
Utensil Twist
Anybody can use a utensil, but not everybody can use it to bend the laws of physics. Adds your key ability bonus to weapon damage, but only if wielding a utensil (spatula, spoon, pizza cutter)
Entangling Noodles
This spell allows you to conjure a wad of sticky noodles, which slow down your opponent and make its attacks less effective. Creates Entangling Vines for rounds equal to caster level
Transcendent Al Dente
You think about almost nothing but pasta, but sometimes you like to take some time to think about it on a deeper level. This skill allows you to spend an hour doing that, resulting in a significant increase in your magical potential. (2 bonus spells per day available from your prepared or know spells)
Lasagna Bandages
This spell summons some enchanted lasagna noodles, which can be used as bandages, healing some of your HP. Heals 3d10 HP to carb-based creatures such as your pasta thrall.
Bind Vampieroghi
This skill allows you to bind the spirit of a vampire into a pieroghi and bend it to your will, as long as your will is more or less "bite stuff for me," since that's basically all vampieroghis are good at. Summons a Vampieroghi thrall
Cannelloni Cannon
This spell allows you to summon and then fire a cannon made of cannelloni and stuffed with all manner of deadly substances. Deals 1d8 damage per level (max 10d8) of a random element
Arched Eyebrow of the Archmage
When it comes to magic, presenting an intimidating facade is almost as important as actually knowing how to tear people apart with your mind. (+1 Spell Damage per level max +10, 1 hour per level max 10 hours)
Replaces other Facial Expressions.
Pastamastery This skill allows you to summon forth noodles from thin air, and to cook delicious food by combining them with sauces.
Allows you to cook with dry noodles.
Allows you to summon three dry noodles per day.
Bind Vermincelli
All of the rats slain by all of the Adventurers in all of the history of tavern basements left vengeful spirits behind, and this skill allows you to befriend one of them and use it as your own personal servant. I'm sure it'll be thrilled. Summons a Vermincelli thrall
Springy Fusilli This skill infuses your body with the springy spirit of spiral pasta, putting a spring in your step and making you more nimble in combat. Grants haste for 1 round per level (max 10)
Bringing Up the Rear
Taking cover behind one of your pasta thralls allows you to cast your spells more carefully, and get more out of them. Doubles the damage of Pastamancer combat spells if you have a pasta thrall active and it blocks enemy line of sight.
Spirit of Rigatoni
This skill will give you the ability to equip Chefstaves -- powerful one-handed staves that act as conduits for advanced Chef-Magery.
Bind Angel Hair Wisp
The wisps of the underworld are notoriously fickle with their allegiances, but you've learned how to trick... er... convince one of them to help you. At least for now. Summons an Angel Hair Wisp thrall
Stuffed Mortar Shell
This spell summons a massive mortar shell made of pasta and stuffed with various flavors of arcane shrapnel. This bomb bursting in air will give proof through the night that your foe has suffered some serious trauma. Deals 2d8+2 per 2 level (max 15d8 + 30) of a random element on the next round after cast (usable once per fight)
Shield of the Pastalord
Despite what you may think, pasta isn't all about destruction. Sometimes, like in the case of this spell, it's about defense. And you've heard that the best defense is a good defense. (damage reduction 3/magic, 1 hour per 2 levels, max 10 hours)
Spirit of Ravioli
This skill infuses your body with the essence of ravioli, making it much sturdier. It will increase your maximum HP by 25%.
Bind Undead Elbow Macaroni
Remember those macaroni guys you fought, way back in the day, when you first started adventuring? Well, how'd you like to have one of those guys of your very own. Sound good? Well, good thing you know this skill, then! Summons an Undead Elbow Macaroni thrall
Weapon of the Pastalord
This spell will summon forth one of the myriad randomly-generated weapons of the Pastalord, the sworn protector of the order of Pastamancers in the Days of Old. That weapon will then beat your opponent about the head or head-analogue Deals 1d8+1 damage per level (max 20d8+20) of a random element. When spells are tuned to a specific element, this spell deals half elemental damage (rounded down) and the rest physical damage.
Thrall Unit Tactics
You've learned to work in perfect concert with your pasta thralls -- letting them take the brunt of every attack, ordering them into dangerous situations in your stead, generally insulting and demeaning them. But good news -- now you can give something back, by constantly draining a portion of their life force and using it to make your spells cheaper! Allows double casting of Pastamancer combat spells when you have an active pasta thrall Passive
Leash of Linguini
This spell allows you to call forth an enchanted leash made out of noodles, which is placed around the neck of your familiar. This effectively raises your familiar's level by 5, but the noodles will deteriorate after 1 hour per level (Max 15 hours) have passed.
Bind Penne Dreadful
You have learned to bind a hard-boiled skeleton detective to your service. It'll come in handy if on some stormy night a dame walks into your office with legs all the way down. Summons a Penne Dreadful thrall
Cannelloni Cocoon
This spell summons forth a huge Cannelloni, which envelops you and heals all of your wounds. Heals all HP.
Subtle and Quick to Anger
People better not meddle in your affairs, because you will cook them into a freakin' lasagna if they do. Spell Damage +10%
Tolerance of the Kitchen
They say that if you can't stand the heat, you should get out of the kitchen. Well, with this skill, you'll be able to stand the heat. Any heat. Provides Resistance to first 10 damage from any Fire source.
Bind Lasagmbie
This skill allows you to bind a lumbering lasagmbie to your service. You wanted grunting and lurching and the flesh of the living, right? Because that's the service you're going to get. Summons a Lasagmbie thrall
Flavour of Magic
This spell will allow you to bring your mystical being in line with the elemental forces that underlie all things: earth, wind, fire, water, and heart. Wait, I mean fire, ice, mental, poison, and profane. And what's the deal with 'heart' anyway? How does that make any sense at all? Makes damage spells do a specific form of elemental damage:
Spirit of Cayenne (fire damage)
Spirit of Peppermint (cold damage)
Spirit of Garlic (poison damage)
Spirit of Wormwood (profane damage)
Spirit of Bacon Grease (mental damage)
Also adds +10 Spell Damage.
Includes a sixth spirit, Spirit of Nothing, that deactivates the skill.
Wizard Squint
After "gray hair" and "a beard," the most common answer on The $20,000 Pyramid when the category is "Things a Wizard Has" is "squinty eyes." The fourth one, strangely, is "one of my lungs."
Wizard Squint
Spells with an attack roll have double critical threat range.
(1 hour per level max 20)
Replaces other Facial Expressions.
Transcendental Noodlecraft
You have achieved the highest possible level of Pastamancy -- you are now capable of making meals that rival the Platonic ideal of the dish of noodles.
Allows you to summon two additional dry noodles per day.
Lets you cook more advanced noodle dishes.
Bind Spice Ghost
This skill allows you to enthrall a spice ghost, an ethereal being who, being made of a diffuse cloud of floating spice particles, can help you get into those hard-to-reach places where your enemies tend to keep their stuff. Summons a Spice Ghost thrall
Fearful Fettucini
This spell summons a mass of fettucini noodles made not of semolina, or of farina, but of pure, uncut terror. Deals 1d8+1 per level (max 10d8 +10) Profane Damage
Tempuramancy
You've learned the secrets of deep-sea thermal vents, and the ways in which they relate to the secrets of battermaking, which you already knew. Lets you create tempura dishes from bubbling tempura batters.
Candyblast
The ability to summon pasta from thin air is pretty sweet, but this lets you conjure something even sweeter -- a massive barrage of candy. Deals 1d4+1 per level (max 5d4+5) physical damage, may drop candy with potion effects.
Stringozzi Serpent
This spell allows you to conjure up a venomous serpent made of wriggling noodles. Deals 1d8+1 (max 5d8+5) poison damage, deals additional poison effect.
Canticle of Carboloading
This ode to the Pastalords has the effect of making the next thing you eat swell up with starchy goodness, thus granting you more energy than it otherwise would have. Unfortunately, it's only usable once per day -- any more than that and you'd run the risk of exploding. Gives an extra 3 bonus spells (once per day) from the next pasta dish you eat.
Bind Spaghetti Elemental
Your research into ancient cult rituals has taught you how to bind a spaghetti elemental to your service. Summons a Spaghetti Elemental thrall
Pastamancer Level Titles
Level Title Mysticality
1 Dough Acolyte
2 Yeast Scholar
3 Noodle Neophyte
4 Starch Savant
5 Carbohydrate Cognoscenti
6 Spaghetti Sage
7 Macaroni Magician
8 Vermicelli Enchanter
9 Linguini Thaumaturge
10 Ravioli Sorcerer
11 Manicotti Magus
12 Spaghetti Spellbinder
13 Cannelloni Conjurer
14 Angel-Hair Archmage
15 Pastamancer
Pasta Thralls: Pastamancers can summon a Pasta Thrall to them which provide additional effects during combat. Pasta Thralls can gain experience, and gain new effects at levels 5 and 10. Both summoned Thralls and trying to bind a Thrall for its Non-Pastamancer effect will dismiss any other Thrall or remove other Non-Pastamancer effects.
+5% Elemental Resistance: Pastamancers (and Saucerors) have an innate resistance: 1 to elemental damage. This resistance applies only to damage, and will not pass tests that check for levels of elemental resistance.
Spells from Pasta: Pastamancers regain bonus when eating pasta dishes, based on the fullness of the dish.
Pastamancers who have passed their guild's test can access Gouda's Grimoire and Grocery.
Pastamancers can cast Spaghetti Spear in combat at will.
