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Scroll lock. To protect your scrolls.
Think that's that wizards get when they're having trouble studying.
Or prevent an opposing caster from using one or more scrolls
Polymorphism
World wide web would be an OP spell
A crack forms below you… and suddenly a tunnel collapses inward beneath your feet.
After a short while your fall is arrested. You are now snagged in a web, in the dim light lit from where you fell you can see this web goes on, all around you, seemingly forever.
I am a level 17 Install Wizard.
Installation Wizard - A wizard hired to protect a specific building or location.
alternatively just an HVAC technician who casts enchantments
"For the last time i am NOT an 'installation wizard', i am an engineer! I didn't spend 5 years studying enchantments just for people to compare me to bedsheet-wearing dementia-addled codgers!"
Roll for intelligence.. 16. The progress of the one hit BEG killing spell is 33%
<many turns later>
Roll for intelligence.. 3. The progress of the one hit BEG killing spell is 96%. That’s the only action you can take on your turn. You better hope the party can stop the army from hitting the power source of this spell before it finishes.
Roll for intelligence… 5. Since that would be more than 100 the progress of the spell rolls back to 91%.
Unstable Ram
One of those fucked me up real bad in Elden Ring
Memory Leak
That one would also be a good name for an EDM group
Halt and Catch Fire
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Default Gateway
Split Horizon
Routing Overhead
Broadcast Storm
edit:fkn markdown
Split Horizon sounds really high-level.
Split Horizon with Poison Reverse
Terminal escape
Privilege escalation
Command injection
Dependency injection
i cast insulin
I had a bit too much fun with these :)
Transmission Control Protocol - Modifies teleportation and summoning to be very specific.
Universal Datagram Protocol - see "Shout"
UDP - See "shout"
I give you credit, not much causes me to actually laugh out loud... like a good, hearty belly laugh. This did, thank you for that.
Can you tell what's my job?
I target you and cast polymorphism.
Power word (sudo) Kill!
Embedded systems?
We have a winner!
Curiously Recurring Template Pattern (basically crop circles)
They're also as mysterious as crop circles in programming. I know how it works but I'm not going to explain to the next poor sap. Such an antipattern. It's in the name, don't do this sort of shit. Stop being clever. Your code should be dumb as fuck
DevOps or Sys Admin?
The Privilege Escalation hits hard
Asynchronous Threads
Port Forward (this one just sounds like a dope place)
Remote Host
Domain Controller
Immutable Type
rainbow table
You win the thread. That is straight up out the old school Player's Handbook.
Ethernet
kill all children
reap children
The Bard I played with last campaign did that by casting gravity well next to the exterior wall of an orphanage. He succeeded with your spell.
I see you play Star Wars ttrpg
It's the lower level spell to use when someone's been hit with Disintegrate. Much cheaper than True Res.
Sanity check
Wildcard
Merge
Bash
Overwrite memory
Key binding
Class inheritance
Merge Bash Overwrite memory
That's not an ability, that's an entire encounter and I love it.
Memory leak
Destructor
Dynamic dispatch
Execute
Variable name - 7th level wizard spell.
For the next 24hours; nothing about the targets identity may be discovered by magical or mundane means. Anyone inquiring about the target has a plausible and consistent story placed in their mind instead; it doesn't matter what the target tells them or what they see.
Someone with the Truesight ability; will know that there is magical concealment active, but will be unable to discern any details about the target.
Disconnect Peripheral: Removes someone's limb.
Critical Vulnerability: Increases critical hit rate.
Memory buffer: Allows you yo remember things better.
Artificers use assembly language to cast their spells.
1st level wild shape ability byte.
4th level wild shape ability megabyte.
8th level wild shape ability gigabyte.
9th level wild shape ability terabyte
Bonus 0th level ability: nibble
Race condition is ranger ability after level 3, 5, 9, and 11.
The druid version is "Create Shortcut".
A horde of COBOLs run out screaming, wielding short swords and round shields.
Everyone remembers their first monster, the COBOL!
Fortran!
Rust - rusts metal. When miscast, makes the target a crab of some sort
Go - Same as "command" spell
Regular Expression - makes any cryptic message understandable in a language you know
Transfer Protocol - allows the teleportation of one packet to a willing host
Read Only - cast on a book, scroll or any other thing with written words. Ensures no further words can be written. No scribbles or any sort of artwork will stick either. The object can still be destroyed
Icon - For a short period, the target of the spell becomes a beloved, or hated, icon of a subject. IE: beloved icon of beauty, hated icon of music.
Master Boot Record - this magical list contains all the master level boots ever created and their current whereabouts
Partition Table - allows any object with at least 2 flat sides to be cut into any shape
I love that Master Boot Record, implies that at some point a group of Artificer-Cobblers created the "Master Boots"; a set of legendary items so powerful that a magical record was also created to track their whereabouts, lest they fall into the wrong hands.
Kernel Space - banishes the target to a plane of existence filled with corn
B Tree - an AOE summon of a permanent swarm of bees in the targeted area until the bees all die or leave naturally
Monad - device that transmutes one set of spell components into another. These can be strung together to form very complex things.
Extended Backus-Naur Form - Allows one to transform into a memetic form to be carried in the mind of another; also extends to your clothing and any carried items.
Agile Method
Kill
Clone
Daemon Process
Clone always struck me as something that shouldn't be a spell but is.
Zero Trust: curse. You become suspicious of your allies.
Ping of death
Bash
Vim (clearly a buff)
Vim (clearly a buff)
That's some grand wizard who's made some named spells. Vim's Inescapable Hut being the most known one.
The instructions are helpfully printed on the scroll.
Trapped wizard: "... how the fuck do I pronounce :q!?"
LUT - A table appears 10ft above your target and falls on it dealing 1d6 bludgeoning.
"LOOK! UP! TABLE!"
By pure coincidence it's also the sounds it makes when dropping on you
Beautiful! It's also a bonus action reaction cantrip.
Deadlock
Priority inversion
Debugging
Source compilation
Priority inversion sounds frighteningly subtle. You might not notice you’re under the effects of the spell because it manipulates priorities rather than bends will directly.
It still feels like your intent, but you’ve been rendered massively ineffective and it may take ages for someone to suspect magical involvement.
That's also exactly how it works in computer science
Deadlock is now a game by Valve
Y’all might be interested in the book series by Charles Stross starting with The Atrocity Archives.
Nice thanks
Python runtime. Time for you to run from these pythons removed.
BSOD. Pretty self-explanatory
Agile development. Raises Dex everytime a new enemy enters vision.
Agile development would be a killer monk ability
Boot Loop - ties someone's shoelaces together
I could actually see this being a cantrip for a bard or arcane trickster. It's almost innocent in its mischief but would be a worthwhile hindrance on the battlefield.
For shoes without laces and creatures without shoes it could simply loop magical string around them.
Prob just a cut to movement with a dex save at the start of every move (like once per turn but they can avoid it by choosing not to move). Doesn't need to be a high save, but if they fail, they trip.
Since it's a cantrip they can remove the string with an action, and they last a number of turns equal to caster level.
I'd also love to see a DM be creative with how much it effects certain creatures. Centipede? Probably a little pissed but not too hindered by stumbling on one pair of legs. 1 legged Pete? Completely unaffected as he jumps at you with his 1 leg.
Boot Loops, when you can't afford Fruit Loops.
Reroot tree: Tree digs itself out of the ground, walks to another location and takes root, as if it's always been there.
Heap sort: More advanced technique for which Reroot tree is a prerequisite for some reason. Arranges assortments of things into neat piles with only one kind of object per pile. Very useful when looking for things in treasure chambers.
"I cast heap sort on the owlbear."
"..."
"The owlbear is sorted into neat piles, the first containing hair/nails/claws/beaks, the second feathers, the third bone, the fourth meat, the fifth blood.."
Null pointer – sends the victim on a quest they can never fulfill.
spawn daemon
scrum master
More like scrotum master, LMAO GOTTEM
This sounds like fantasy indeed
This one’s not quite CS but oh well. Spell check - After a series of unfortunate accidents at the magical university, all novel spells must be submitted to the administration in writing to ensure their safety before first casting.
Root access - Access to the Underdark druid communication network, which is transmitted through a continent-wide system of interconnected tree roots.
Command: Line - A creative use of the command spell that forces an affected creature to spend their turn forming or waiting in an orderly line.
Neural net - The system of control used by an elder brain to control and coordinate illithids under its influence.
Power word: Infinite Recursion
Not necessarily PC related, but:
Uninterrupted Power Supply
I think a trap in a procedurally generated dungeon I recently ran for my group. It was a magical lightning trap, self resetting
UPS ≈ permanence
Looks exactly like the cursed item - Unreliable Power Source!
Force Merge
I don't know what kind of spells these would be but I fear the wizard who knows them.
