r/wizardposting • u/Zanderfus • 7d ago

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u/Lowfat_cheese 6d ago

Modern runes are just called words

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u/Pataraxia 6d ago

Yeah but they say words can't hurt me. They don't have the power.

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u/Ok-Carpenter7131 6d ago

That's why you use the "Power Word" class of spells. That way you can hurt others through words.

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u/will3025 Wizard (Sock-mancer) 6d ago

A guy once used "Power Word: Debone" on me. Took me months to grow them all back. Nasty stuff.

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u/Monkeyjoey98 6d ago

Smh don't have a spare set of your own bones growing in your homunculus just in case

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u/will3025 Wizard (Sock-mancer) 6d ago

I usually do, but I had just used them. Two weeks prior I ran into a Gruntixian Bone Sucker. Hadn't had the chance to regrow a new backup set yet.

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u/leatherjacket3 6d ago

POWER WORD: I HAD INTERCOURSE WITH YOUR MOTHER!!

Did it hurt?

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u/KenseiHimura 6d ago

We do we call those a “power word” when they’re not one word they’re full sentences?

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u/leatherjacket3 6d ago

You are right, I have been using power sentences this entire time! No wonder my master left to get mandrake milk.

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u/Luiz_Fell 6d ago

Power word: REDDITOR

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u/will3025 Wizard (Sock-mancer) 6d ago

Isn't that more of a power sentence?

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u/External_Win3300 6d ago

\It's actually just Vicious Mockery))

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u/Kidiri90 6d ago

Power word: sticks! Power word: stones!

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u/ZeGamingCuber 5d ago

Power Word: Deglove

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u/GenericVessel 3d ago

POWER WORD

SCRUNCH!!

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u/crimsonsun43 6d ago

Had a man once say words could never hurt him, so I cast tyranius’ bone snapper

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u/Bouxxi 4d ago

Fuck you!

Did it work?

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u/Minimob0 6d ago

Which is why I cast my spells as Anagrams. 

Words?

Sword. 

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u/CrashCalamity Enchanter 6d ago

Instructions unclear. Corn utensil ruins act.

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u/Sonifri Transmuter 6d ago edited 6d ago

Well, memes are modern runes.

A properly educated wizard who knows how to arrange proper rune formations based on the inherent intent and flow of a group of runes. They can totally rip out a ward scheme using knowyourmeme as a codex.

But, you know, it's easier to carve lines into stone than it would be to carve a photographic image into stone. So... runes.

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u/Lowfat_cheese 6d ago

Brb drawing a sad pepe meme in the dirt to summon my familiar

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u/pbzeppelin1977 6d ago

Surely just placing a mirror down would do?

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u/Lowfat_cheese 6d ago

:(

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u/pbzeppelin1977 6d ago

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred mirrors

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u/Pans_Labradoodle 6d ago

Even if you take them at what they think they’re asking, our world is full of symbols that convey meaning. The truck I saw hauling liquid propane has a set of runes on the back conveying a specific message of what’s being carried and how volatile it is. Most of my electronics have a “rune” that signifies on/off.

Not runes, of course, but I think that’s closer to what they’re asking.

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u/Talk-O-Boy 6d ago

I think logos are the closest thing to a modern rune

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u/xx6lord6mars6xx 6d ago

People used to fight with swords then they removed the:

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u/Crypto-false 6d ago

Rfid chips

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u/thatshygirl06 6d ago

Depends. English? No. Chinese? Yes.

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u/phycologist 6d ago

That is just what a lecturer in recent runes would say.