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Fact Mix: SHE Spells Doom
SHE Spells Doom takes us through a stellar selection of tripped-out drum workouts. Wamya Tembo has been making visceral club music as SHE Spells Doom for over a decade, iterating on his ’80s sci-fi soundtrack-infused formula with puzzle box drum programming and intuitive feeling for atmosphere. The alias serves as the culmination of a life […]
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Best Elden Ring spells, incantations, and sorceries
Want to know what the best Elden Ring spells are? Magic in Elden Ring comes in two main categories: sorceries and incantations. Sorceries require investment into the intelligence attribute, while incantations use faith. Sometimes you may find a spell that requires points in arcane. This is usually a secondary requirement that doesn’t affect the spell’s damage.
Several useful spells are available early on in one of the best PC games. However, you can only learn more specialised Elden Ring sorceries and incantations by gathering scrolls and prayerbooks. By handing these items over to compatible vendors, you can discover the best Elden Ring spells, including devastating projectiles and powerful short-term buffs for the best Elden Ring weapons. With all the magic you’re flinging around, you need all of the upgrades you can get your hands on. Therefore, we highly recommend that you check out our guides on where to find Elden Ring talismans, Elden Ring crystal tears, and Elden Ring Ashes of War to give yourself as much mana as possible and upgrade your spellcaster into a magical marvel.
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‘Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’ directors explain why Edgin doesn’t cast any bard spells
As someone who’s currently playing a bard in a Dungeons & Dragons campaign, one of the biggest questions I had while watching Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves was “Why isn’t Edgin using any magic?”
With his lute and his smooth-talking ways, Edgin (Chris Pine) is the bard of Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves‘ adventuring party. By game standards, this means he’s a full caster. Bards can cast iconic spells like Vicious Mockery, as well as magically inspire fellow players with Bardic Inspiration. But while Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves brings several classic game spells to life, such as Speak With Dead, it leaves many others — including those associated with bards — behind.
The limited magic use also extends to druid Doric (Sophia Lillis), who frequently shapeshifts using Wild Shape but otherwise doesn’t cast spells. Really, the main caster of the party is sorcerer Simon (Justice Smith), who has his own journey of self-discovery related to magic use.
Given that Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves features several casting classes who never cast spells, I asked directors Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley how they chose which aspects of certain classes to bring to life in the film, especially when it came to magic.
“It was primarily dictated by the story,” Goldstein said in a Zoom interview. “Magic is so powerful and can solve so many problems that we decided we really wanted to limit it to certain characters, because then it forces them to find other ways through.”
Adding to that idea of problem-solving is the fact that Dungeons & Dragons spells aren’t always a surefire way to get out of a jam. In the film, Simon complains about how everyone believes that magic is an easy fix to every solution. As the sorceror points out repeatedly (and as the film shows), magic has its limits.
“That’s baked into Dungeons & Dragons, that limitation,” added Goldstein. “The game would be too easy if you could just cast a spell for everything.”
However, just because we don’t see Edgin directly casting anything doesn’t mean he doesn’t have special abilities of his own.
“We also liked the idea that Edgin’s only real magical power was being able to convince people to carry out his ridiculous plans,” said Daley. “And the fact that he’s able to charm people and get people on board is a little bit less obvious of a power, but certainly something that makes him stand out in the group.”
Hey, that high Charisma modifier always comes in handy!
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is now in theaters.
Casting spells with my voice in Hogwarts Legacy is very silly, kinda cool
All Hogwarts Legacy spells list and the best ones for combat
Wondering which Hogwarts Legacy spells you can cast in the halls of the famous school? Spellcasting is, of course, one of the biggest draws of attending Hogwarts – that and getting into magical mischief – so which spells will we be able to use in Hogwarts legacy, and how will spellcasting and combat work?
Counting all of the contextual spells, there are 31 learnable Hogwarts Legacy spells in total. Of these 31 spells, you can allocate 23 to up to four different spell slots, which you can get by unlocking the relevant Hogwarts Legacy talents with points earned by leveling up to the max level cap. As for learning the spells in the open-world game, this will happen either by attending class, as a reward for completing assignments or learned during main story missions. Here is everything you need to know about them.
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The Last Spell’s magic ruined the world, and I’m so here for it
Too many spells in games are just variations on the old reliable fireball. Wizard sends projectile towards target. Target dies. Perhaps they deviate a little in how quickly they die, or how large the area of effect is. Maybe instead of a fireball it’s a thunderbolt, or a poisonous gas, or a beam of light. Pish, I say. Pish! Where’s the real magic? Where are the cataclysmic spells that take days or weeks of preparation, and then change the world with a single fateful ritual?
These games could learn something from The Last Spell, a roguelite turn-based tactics game about defending your village each night from hordes of mutant beasts that emerge from the purple fog surrounding the entire world. Whenever I start a new game in The Last Spell, I always rewatch the excellent opening sequence, which succinctly sets a harrowing scene of magic pushed further than we’re used to seeing in most fiction in general, let alone games.