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27 Nov 2011, 5:43 pm

A thread was just posted in the main forum "Someone dispel this myth" to which fraac replied:

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Dispeliarmus!

and it made me wonder if Aspies can be wizards at all?

Along with the Verbal component of weaving spells, there is often a "somatic" component

D&D wiki wrote:

Somatic (S)
A somatic component is a measured and precise movement of the hand. You must have at least one hand free to provide a somatic component.

and since Aspies are clumsy and bad at using body language, this seems like a massive barrier.

Besides, given the tendency to obsess over interests, Aspies who could weave skeins of wierding would likely obsess over getting more power, drawing one irrevocably into the black arts and their soul being corrupted by chaos leaking out of the void .

Likewise, the Thief class is probably not going to work.

Should probably stick to Ranger and Druid subclasses and get a nice fuzzy animal familiar.

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27 Nov 2011, 5:45 pm

oops, I should have put this in the Jobs forum. :(

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27 Nov 2011, 6:17 pm

I'm a level 5 dark elf thief.

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27 Nov 2011, 7:02 pm

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27 Nov 2011, 7:14 pm

Neville Longbottom.

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27 Nov 2011, 9:50 pm

I believe so.

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27 Nov 2011, 11:36 pm

Aspies can not be wizards; they only think they can.

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27 Nov 2011, 11:59 pm

Can Aspies be Wizards? Only if their names are Burnbridge.

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28 Nov 2011, 12:04 am

Oh, no. I'm afraid I'm entirely prosaic. :(

I was once told by a rainbow-gathering trustafarian "shaman" that I have no "aura." Which I think may have been a thinly veiled metaphor for "you are a bummer for not smokin weed, dude."

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28 Nov 2011, 12:11 am

See...I'm not going for that. I can sense your (ahem) aura from over here. Besides, most Aspies are 'scientific' enough for such an endeavor. Please don't let a rainbow-gathering trustafarian "shaman" convince you otherwise. ..! !..

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28 Nov 2011, 12:15 am

Burnbridge wrote:

Oh, no. I'm afraid I'm entirely prosaic.

I was once told by a rainbow-gathering trustafarian "shaman" that I have no "aura." Which I think may have been a thinly veiled metaphor for "you are a bummer for not smokin weed, dude."

I loved camping with the Rainbow Family!

Coolest bunch of people I ever met in a bad situation and my ability to overlook that one guy looked _exactly_like_Charles_Manson_ was to my benefit. He was the nicest, most caring person! They literally saved my life one night.

If you like hippies, have you ever been to The Farm? It's great!

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28 Nov 2011, 12:24 am

If The Farm still around? Crazy! They totally misunderstood soybeans and introduced a whole new breed of digestive problems to vegetarians!

I know people that live on intentional communities in Tennessee, Florida, North Carolina and California ... but I wouldn't call any of them hippies. Not in the rainbow gathering sense anyway. More like primitive anarchists just scraping by than leisurely druggies living of their parent's wealth (the latter being all of the rainbow people I've ever known).

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See...I'm not going for that. I can sense your (ahem) aura from over here.

Hmmm...It has been awhile since I bathed. Oops.

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28 Nov 2011, 12:28 am

Crazy Wizards! :twisted: <stomps off>

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28 Nov 2011, 12:29 am

Burnbridge wrote:

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See...I'm not going for that. I can sense your (ahem) aura from over here.

Hmmm...It has been awhile since I bathed. Oops.

Yes, The Farm is still around, and as far as I know, so are Steven and Ina May. We went camping there about 16 years ago, and parts of it were like we imagined, but other parts of it were not. Think brick suburban tract housing with satellite dishes and Volvos, just up a dirt road from a Nam Vet in a hand built tin house and abandonded busses from the original housing in the woods.

You should go! It's free to camp.

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28 Nov 2011, 12:43 am

Yeah, suburban tract housing: not really my thing. Nam vet in a tin shack sounds pretty cool though. :D

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28 Nov 2011, 1:11 am

Burnbridge wrote:

Yeah, suburban tract housing: not really my thing. Nam vet in a tin shack sounds pretty cool though.

They have them all. Plus the Meditation Meadow, the Book Publishing Company, the Mushroom People (not what you think), and all that stuff around there! You should visit it!

I, unfortunately, live in my towns only subdivision. It's a culd de sac. That's all it is. It's suburban tract housing. But I have gas logs!

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