I like the component pouch. DM wants to say you can't cast a spell with your focus due to the component being consumed? Component pouch has it! It also lets me pull fun stuff out, like makeup for the party's assassin.
I run a fiend tomelock that doubles her rod as a club, casts shillelagh and spams booming blade. She's really fun to go from EB spam to beating people with an evil-looking beatstick.
I like the component pouch. DM wants to say you can't cast a spell with your focus due to the component being consumed? Component pouch has it! It also lets me pull fun stuff out, like makeup for the party's assassin.
I run a fiend tomelock that doubles her rod as a club, casts shillelagh and spams booming blade. She's really fun to go from EB spam to beating people with an evil-looking beatstick.
Most DMs let you use a wand or crystal for spells as a focus. The focus lets you bypass the material components UNLESS the spell consumes something or has monetary components.
That's how I play - but as a sorcerer at level 8 with a heavy ice theme, I don't have any spells that consume components.
My dwarven war wizard used a cracked orb, worn like an amulet, as his focus. He had the soldier background, and it was a trophy taken from a wizard he'd killed on his first mission out. You might not keep a damaged focus, but the mission did not go well and the victory was hard won, so he kept the trophy as a reminder of the cost of failure.
Plus, it was easy to flavor missed attack rolls or enemies' successful spell saves as my wizard being unable to control the spell properly with a damaged focus.
Honestly I like the flavor of using components and describing how the component is used when casting the spell. In one campaign we flavored magic as advance technology. My spellbook was a clear slab similar to a tablet but allowed me to record information and I would flavor certain spells as coming through my tablet. Like knock was overriding security doors.
I'm starting a new campaign and looking into ideas for an arcane focus for my Shadarkai warlock of the Raven Queen. They are a gothicesq 17year old street urchin with a fascination for food, particularly eating it, so my thought was a wooden spork!? Thought it'd be somewhat useful yet comical...
I'm starting a new campaign and looking into ideas for an arcane focus for my Shadarkai warlock of the Raven Queen. They are a gothicesq 17year old street urchin with a fascination for food, particularly eating it, so my thought was a wooden spork!? Thought it'd be somewhat useful yet comical...
At first, I was going to offer a staff, as it can act as a perch for a raven familiar, but if food is what's on your mind, pact of the blade's improved pact weapon from XGtE can let a dagger (steak knife) work RAW. Or you can reflavor a wand as a spork.
I'm running a character based off one from the game Food Fantasy. She has a giant spoon as both her quarterstaff and arcane focus.
I had an idea for a mountain dwarf illusionist wizard that tries to mask the fact that he is dwarf wizard as much as possible; He wears medium armor, he intentionally burned the bottom half of his face so that he can no longer grow a beard and covers the scars with a bandanna. His focus is a rod, shaped to be vaguely blade-like and made out of a grey wood, which he keeps inside of his "scabbard", which in actuality is a scroll with a locking mechanism that takes a knowledge of dwarven, halfling, and abyssal to unlock. He also walks with a chipper gait and lost a lot of weight so that he could reasonably pass for a taller-than-average halfling.
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It's ok Ranger, you'll always be cool to me.. Unless druid gets another use for its wild shape charges.
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I like the component pouch. DM wants to say you can't cast a spell with your focus due to the component being consumed? Component pouch has it! It also lets me pull fun stuff out, like makeup for the party's assassin.
I run a fiend tomelock that doubles her rod as a club, casts shillelagh and spams booming blade. She's really fun to go from EB spam to beating people with an evil-looking beatstick.
Most DMs let you use a wand or crystal for spells as a focus. The focus lets you bypass the material components UNLESS the spell consumes something or has monetary components.
That's how I play - but as a sorcerer at level 8 with a heavy ice theme, I don't have any spells that consume components.
My dwarven war wizard used a cracked orb, worn like an amulet, as his focus. He had the soldier background, and it was a trophy taken from a wizard he'd killed on his first mission out. You might not keep a damaged focus, but the mission did not go well and the victory was hard won, so he kept the trophy as a reminder of the cost of failure.
Plus, it was easy to flavor missed attack rolls or enemies' successful spell saves as my wizard being unable to control the spell properly with a damaged focus.
Honestly I like the flavor of using components and describing how the component is used when casting the spell. In one campaign we flavored magic as advance technology. My spellbook was a clear slab similar to a tablet but allowed me to record information and I would flavor certain spells as coming through my tablet. Like knock was overriding security doors.
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I'm starting a new campaign and looking into ideas for an arcane focus for my Shadarkai warlock of the Raven Queen. They are a gothicesq 17year old street urchin with a fascination for food, particularly eating it, so my thought was a wooden spork!? Thought it'd be somewhat useful yet comical...
At first, I was going to offer a staff, as it can act as a perch for a raven familiar, but if food is what's on your mind, pact of the blade's improved pact weapon from XGtE can let a dagger (steak knife) work RAW. Or you can reflavor a wand as a spork.
I'm running a character based off one from the game Food Fantasy. She has a giant spoon as both her quarterstaff and arcane focus.
I had an idea for a mountain dwarf illusionist wizard that tries to mask the fact that he is dwarf wizard as much as possible; He wears medium armor, he intentionally burned the bottom half of his face so that he can no longer grow a beard and covers the scars with a bandanna. His focus is a rod, shaped to be vaguely blade-like and made out of a grey wood, which he keeps inside of his "scabbard", which in actuality is a scroll with a locking mechanism that takes a knowledge of dwarven, halfling, and abyssal to unlock. He also walks with a chipper gait and lost a lot of weight so that he could reasonably pass for a taller-than-average halfling.
It's ok Ranger, you'll always be cool to me.. Unless druid gets another use for its wild shape charges.