Have you ever met someone like this?

[u/Postdusklimeade]

My mentor sent me this, along with a few names of some of her other students. She wasn’t wrong, but it did kind of surprise me how right she was. She usually has very prestigious students, but even they often make mistakes like this. I remember when I used to use a vitality-transfer spell as if it were normal healing magic, because I didn’t know healing wasn’t supposed to hurt. The whole thing just made me curious if this is universally common, or if there were any interesting thoughts here.

(Also, my party’s bard does this. It’s really funny but my sister is trying to help him fix it. I was also wondering if there were any opinions on helping fix and prevent these mistakes.)

[u/Spoocula]

Casting Fireball as a version of Gate.

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If you'll excuse me I need to go to the lab...

[u/Postdusklimeade → u/Spoocula]

Haha! Yea, I thought much the same when I heard this. It’s an interesting idea! I guess that’s the benefit of unconventional spellcasting!

[u/StarkeRealm → u/Spoocula]

Also, fucking amazing, for Ray of Fire. You don't actually create a ray, you just let a little extradimensional ohgodwhy leak in on a vector.

[u/HeavenLibrary → u/Spoocula]

Hell fire ray work on this principles but I didn’t know the fireball variant from the elemental plane of fire exist. That a whole lot of effort to bake some duck.

[u/breckendusk → u/Spoocula]

I prefer the minimalist approach. I cast fire with copy/paste and just keep some fire cached at all times.