Not the richest fastest but probably nice and discreet: electronics repair shop using mending.
Mending is so good, and as a Cantrip you don’t even need to be a practiced caster.
You can’t mend to fix magic smoke problems. Though it would be awesome to run your finger along a cracked screen to repair it
5 minute $10 screen repairs?
Would have lines around the block.
I think you would be able to
You can fix constructs and magical items with it, you can’t put magic back into it though
Why not?
Mend can’t fix magic.
This spell can physically repair a magic item or construct, but the spell can’t restore magic to such an object.
Magic smoke is magic smoke.
Something something simple repairs… DM said no
They’re making a joke, riffing off the “you let the magic smoke out” joke used in hardware repair. The “magic smoke” is when the chip fries and needs to be replaced, and mending can only physically repair magic items.
Why stop at electronics. I would think just going to a scrapyard and repairing machinery or vehicles back to working condition would be massive.
Take 20$ in scrap and turn into hundreds of dollars by repairing.
It’s got a volume restriction iirc. Like 3ft cube
Can you just do it in segments then?
I never took that cantrip, so not familiar.
Lawful Good:
Foresight to convince the smart, powerful people that they’re making bad decisions, influence them to make better decisions for the world, only use it for enough personal gain to sustain a decent living.
Neutral Good:
Mass Suggestion Convince the dumb powerful people I’m a divine being and they better do as I say, use this power to force positive change amongst the easiest to control masses. Collection plates at churches now go to me.
Chaotic Good:
Gate, Use teleportation to extort billionaires by witnessing their depravity and threatening them with exposure, also portal tech. become Rick Sanchez. Rob swiss banks for fun and profit.
Lawful Evil:
Meteor Swarm: Hold cities hostage for ransom.
Chaotic Evil:
True Polymorph: I’m going to start turning politicians into lizards. For cash I’ll turn random shit into itself but but made out of a different material and auction if off, passing myself off as a great artist of incredible talent.
Edit because I forgot about the money half way through.
I like how as you descend into evil and madness you increasingly discard the “don’t draw attention to yourself” part and with chaotic evil the wealth generation aspect is pretty much forgotten. The progression feels right.
You mixed up ‘chaotic evil’ and ‘chaotic good’
I’m torn between targeting just the worst world leaders or targeting them at random. The end goal would be making every politician understand that a mysterious force WILL turn you into a lizard if you displease it. There will be no indication of what displeases the mysterious force.
If you do it randomly they will all understand that the problem is ‘world leaders’ if you do it based on a ranking system you will have ones who think they are one of the ‘good ones’ and so safe.
But the politicians are already lizard people. You can’t turn them into lizards if they’re already lizards!
To maximise staying under the radar, probably fabricate. You’d not be amazingly rich, but you could establish a decent living with a lot of free time. If you want to be amazingly rich and you squint hard enough at fabricate and what tool proficiency count mean in the modern world you can probably make some bank with a bit of study of chemistry or engineering. Being able to magically create complex drugs or something is going to draw attention though.
Fabricate would work fantastically, and I think you’re underestimating the amount of money you can make with some craftsman stuff.
People will pay a lot for well done custom made stuff. Knives, swords, furniture… all of it is worth a sizable amount once you have any kind of reputation and start taking commissions. I mean thousand dollar chandeliers and multiple thousand dollar tables.
Fireball
The answer is always fireball.
Something my buddy always says is “Fireball isn’t the answer. It’s the question. And the answer is always ‘Yes’.” Wise words, i’d figure.
Step 1. Cast foresight
Step 2. Go to Vegas
Step 3. Profit- Get booted from every casino after making a mild amount of money
FTFY
Not super creative, but distort value would work pretty well. People would think you’re just a really good salesperson.
Until you try to overthrow the kingdom and people start to pay attention to your actual finances and you’re looking at 90+ felonies.
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I won’t try to overthrow the kingdom?
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I sold everything legit. Just because people overpaid doesn’t mean I did anything illegal.
[Edit: I don’t get this reference apparently]
[Edit: oh]
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I get this reference!
I don’t, what is this a reference to?
Trump, if that wasn’t a WHOOSH
Okay yeah I see it now thanks.
Teleport from children’s hospital to children’s hospital casting heal.
DM says no
Fine raise the dead.
There are no healing/resurrection spells on wizard’s spell list
I did not say resurrect did I.
Raise dead is a resurrection spell in dnd
Raise, Animate. At this point it’s all hell broken lose.
Clone. Doesn’t work post-mortem, but if they can last for ~120 days… and if they can’t, there’s always Imprisonment or True Polymorph to keep them alive until the clone body matures.
bro what. they really always had none how could I have missed this.
Mage hand and offer ghost handjobs for $1000 per person per handjob
Doesn’t really sound like it wouldn’t draw attention
Who would want to admit that they used their services?
Me. I would. Sounds dope.
(Hi, yes, it’s been 5 months and I felt compelled to write this.)
Phantasmal Killer, assassin for hire.
Polymorph, make an only fans.
Move Earth, get a job in construction.
Animate Dead, free labor
Magic Missile never misses
Summon monster (fire elemental) free clean power generation
I could go on all day. Having wizard spells would literally make you stupidly rich.
Dude, if I could shape shift for an Onlyfans, I’d give myself a zipper. I’d look sexy and hot, but with a zipper right down my back. i’d ignore all questions about my zipper. I’d use throwaway accounts to drum up drama about the sexy lady zipper. Saying it’s an implant, or that I’m an alien. I wouldn’t even tell the people I’m filming with what the zipper is for, and if they tried to pull it, it would be stuck, and filming would end then. Then one day I’d be Livestreaming to my Simps and my zipper would get caught on something and unzip. I’d come out as a gnome. Not even a cool gnome, like an annoying keebler elf sort of lawn Ignome. My simps would loose their minds realizing that they’ve been jerking off to a gnome in a slut suit. Then I’d go offline that day and start a new account with some other crazy antic.
This is sooo funny I’m adding it to my modern campaign by yesterday
So the first one then, to get rid of the competition?
Prestidigitation, and a residency in Las Vegas. David Copperfield was able to buy a private island, imagine what I could do with real magic!
True Polymorph is the easiest if we just wanna accrue wealth quickly
Buy some live feeder mice (a small animal that doesn’t involve killing someone’s pet) and transform them into jewelry. True Polymorph has none of the restrictions of Fabricate, so we can create fine jewelry without skill. Turn a mouse into a gold ring or necklace, with a large gemstone embedded into it. Sell it at a pawn shop. Repeat, use different pawn shops, and use Dominate Person with Modify Memory afterwards if theres some law about needing an ID. The dominated person can use theirs, and then you remove the interaction from their memories.
Sell fine jewelry made from mice all you want. Use that cash to buy cows or other massive animals, turn them into gold. We don’t have to worry about how to pass the gold off though, the goal was to accumulate wealth. Use Fabricate to make the cow-gold into rough coins, build a secret dragon’s den.
Of course, if we’re willing to be a little less subtle, True Polymorph is also great for doing some light faith healing, restoring blindness due to injury by transforming them into another person that’s basically identical, or we could make people look like their ideal selves. Not in the bounds of the question though.
Suggestion. And then go to Wall Street :)
oh I like you.
Eldritch blast + spell sniper for no particular reason
Eldritch Blast + Eldritch Spear + Spell Sniper + Distant Spell = 1200ft distance that ignores most cover.
Add Subtle Spell and no one will be the wiser.
Foresight and gambling
Nah win too much and you get kicked out and banned. No matter if you cheated to win or not
Typically when you win a lot and they don’t suspect cheating, they give you a swanky room so you stick around and try to double your winnings.
You have to be doing some losing in that as well, can’t just win all the time or your theo is all fucked
It’s not my theory, but did you have a stroke?
Autocorrect has taken to changing words for other words lately and I don’t always catch it lol
They can ban me as long as I’m paid
All it takes is one big win on their jackpot machine. Nothing sus about that.
Big win on a slot is a couple hundred grand pre-tax. Not that great, even hitting the major companies until banned from all will get you in the low millions pre-tax
Not lifelong money there
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The big casinos (with the big jackpots) are owned by one of a half dozen companies. You’ll get banned nationwide real quick from each if you get blacklisted. They also coordinate a bit so you cause a big enough stir and you’re done at all.
Then you’re stuck running your scheme at little tribal shops and strip mall gambling halls not worth the effort
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Fireba- Oh wait, without drawing attention? Invisibility and Dimension Door to steal riches.
Look, I didn’t ask about the size of the room. I said fireball.
