An artificer can make a still camera, but not a video camera, with Magical Tinkering. But you only get a few shots before your images are overwritten, so then you'd have to draw them to make them permanent.
Just use illusion magic to show the 'recordings' - as in memories. Otherwise, you wind up with the problem of having a VHS camera, when no one has a VHS player. No fun in that.
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Blanket disclaimer: I only ever state opinion. But I can sound terribly dogmatic - so if you feel I'm trying to tell you what to think, I'm really not, I swear. I'm telling you what I think, that's all.
Second Edition was really the last time that D&D had "record video" type spells, back when TSR was busy filling splatbooks and Dragon Magazine issues with whatever ridiculous stuff they wanted rather than looking at things with an eye for whether or not it would actually be something a player character would actually want.
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Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Play a lore bard, get wind walk, mind blank, encode thoughts and programmed illusion. Use wind walk to fly and be faster than any of your party and be resistant to weapon damage, mind blank to avoid any detection from magical sources, protection from mental insanity from looking at eldritch horrors and charms from Archfeys. Encode thoughts after recording to take out all your memories as tapes. Finally, hold all the tapes while casting programmed illusion to send out all of what you saw as a I-Max illusion.
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An artificer can make a still camera, but not a video camera, with Magical Tinkering. But you only get a few shots before your images are overwritten, so then you'd have to draw them to make them permanent.
Just use illusion magic to show the 'recordings' - as in memories. Otherwise, you wind up with the problem of having a VHS camera, when no one has a VHS player. No fun in that.
Blanket disclaimer: I only ever state opinion. But I can sound terribly dogmatic - so if you feel I'm trying to tell you what to think, I'm really not, I swear. I'm telling you what I think, that's all.
Second Edition was really the last time that D&D had "record video" type spells, back when TSR was busy filling splatbooks and Dragon Magazine issues with whatever ridiculous stuff they wanted rather than looking at things with an eye for whether or not it would actually be something a player character would actually want.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Play a lore bard, get wind walk, mind blank, encode thoughts and programmed illusion. Use wind walk to fly and be faster than any of your party and be resistant to weapon damage, mind blank to avoid any detection from magical sources, protection from mental insanity from looking at eldritch horrors and charms from Archfeys. Encode thoughts after recording to take out all your memories as tapes. Finally, hold all the tapes while casting programmed illusion to send out all of what you saw as a I-Max illusion.