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Plane shift can drop you up to five hundred miles from your intended destination.
This time they land in some woods, at sunset, near a remarkably flat and smooth path that looks like a lava flow or something.
osirians
"I think it's very rare for people who test smart enough to be a wizard to have a hard time learning any magic, though some can never learn more than a couple easy spells."
seeing-is-suspecting
"Even that would be super cool! And useful! Okay - you guys are going over what their spells are, right, we should finish taking notes on that - "
The highest level of spell he can cast is third, and he usually prepares Channel Vigor, Bestow Curse, Prayer and in his domain slot Protection from Energy. Sometimes instead of Prayer he'll get Locate Object or Daylight depending what they're expecting to run into. He explains all of these.
known-the-dragon
They take lots of notes. Occasionally one or the other of them flips through one of the books and says 'that's so weird' and then the other one agrees that it is very weird.
seeing-is-suspecting
"The spell lists have overlap, but a bunch of things have been changed in ways that don't even especially make it a better game or make it more plausible with existing narratives? But they're close enough that it's clear it's talking about the same spell? They're just - really puzzling changes, sometimes."
known-the-dragon
"We should see if the other stuff about the world matches. Like - oh, Hagan, could you draw us, like, a map or something? Regional or world or whatever you can do, if you know how anything's shaped - "
the-snake's-name-is-snake
He can sketch a world map and then a more detailed map of the region he's from!
seeing-is-suspecting
"No. It's like he took a bunch of mechanics and organizational stuff that their world uses, and then, like, transplanted it onto a different world and then radically reworked the spells for some reason?"
known-the-dragon
" - that's not that weird, we do that with D&D all the time. Like, we don't rework the spells, but kind of because it'd be effort to balance the game if we did."
"It's also possible he visited or had information from a different world in the same plane. One assumes there are lots."
seeing-is-suspecting
"Oh, yeah, I guess, if you have a bunch of planets. It would be kind of weird if they had basically the same spread of races and classes and stuff, but I guess - weirder things have happened, right?"
