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((Honestly, I'd hire him if I were an HR person at an RPG company.

((Because you're familiar with his work. I highly doubt you'd find many Bay12ers working HR at WotC. The two pools are small enough that they're unlikely to overlap.))

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DR 20/magic

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Hint: When I directly reference D&D rules in my actions, there is a 99% chance I'm being facetious.

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the confirmed ability to cast any spell in 3.5 D&D?

Wot?

Alright...D&D stands for Dungeons and Dragons. It has gone through a number of editions--Basic Dungeons and Dragons, AD&D, 2nd Edition, 3rd Edition, 3.5, 4th Edition, and most recently D&D Next. 3.5 is the edition I'm most familiar with.

Gold dragons, which I based my character on, are from Dungeons and Dragons. Hence why he has abilities similar to them.
Spells are things spellcasters like wizards, clerics, bards, and druids cast. So do some monsters, including dragons. (Many more monsters--also including dragons--have "spell-like abilities," which work like spells except without the gestures and material components and stuff.)

My character's passive ability of I Am A Dragon includes the vague "uses magic" clause to cover the spells, spell-like abilities, and such dragons have. I was suggesting combining this with the new ability to formalize the general assumption that I would be able to cast any spell from 3.5 (within reason--I have no intention of spamming wish and miracle and power word kill. Or even using them, if no one else is bending the rules in their favor).

If it included third-party spells, it would be even worse.

Oh come on. What do you take me for?

((Assuming he has skills which look unique and attractive to the HR department.))

Piecewise would like more hours in the day, To be paid to work on RPG's, the ability to run 10 more games without dying, More hardsci anime besides PlanetES, which was really good but I can only watch it so many times, The ability to resurrect Heinlein and a few others, the ability to finish a love story and not feel wistful, a sequel to hammerfight and phantom dust, and...

Wait, you're talking about the lizard right?

Oh.

He would like a steak and to nibble on people's toes.

((Such a simple life. Would you accept "Be piecewise the lizard" as a second- or third-best thing?))

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"That worked well!"

Appreciate my non-jumping-into-fans-again success. Exit reactor. Look for something else to do.

((Or one of a number of potential weapons--Molotov cocktails, dynamite, maybe a grenade--that marks them as a renegade and is dangerous if badly used, but also has the potential to harm/kill multiple people at once?
Also, TIRUIN'S THE RENEGADE!!1))

"Well, clothing is less durable than objects of great value, you must realize."

"There is literally nowhere on what remains of their persons to put things of great value."

"And what if one of these poor, poor people was at the center of some kind of holy elven prophecy that involved them utilizing an ancient, powerful family heirloom to save a whole lot of people or trees or whatever it is that elves save, and now they're dead and can't do anything about it, leaving priceless or at least fetching elven artifacts lying around?"

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*smack*

"Besides, one of our fine companions seems to have found a really nifty bracelet in a bush of all places, so we also cannot discount the possibility of wonderful objects being located in a large mountain of corpses, either. It can't hurt to look, can it?"

"A pair of dice coming up twelve once doesn't guarantee it will happen next time."

"I'd like to examine how they were killed as well, which would work as a splendid bit of multitasking, yes?"

"Remarkably, trying to look for two things at once makes you less likely to find either."

"That is, unless it happens to be a trap, good fellow! Demons love nothing more than seeing you die with a stupid look on your face, don't you know. This is why Yagalians never investigate suspicious noises from unknown places! Especially not by themselves!"

*smack*
"There are at least two individuals investigating already. If you don't hurry, you will be the one left alone."

((I don't know what you're talking about. I mean, what could possibly go wrong? ))

*smack*

"Ah, but 'brutally murdered' is such a vague term. The methods of murder, when closely examined, reveal quite a bit about the murderer! If there was, say, a 12-foot demon made of poisonous tentacles roaming about here, I'd assume I'd be able to discover some signs of such a thing from the bodies of its victims. Really, I'm wondering if the beasties in the woods did this or some other, as of yet undiscovered party is the culprit!"

*smack*
"You are not a forensic postcognitive. I highly suspect you will be able to discern no specific information...and any of us can tell, for instance, that that individual was killed by ramming his femur through his chest. _{At least, I hope that's his own femur...} Anyways, what does that information tell you? That whoever did this was powerful and sadistic. Or powerful and insane. Probably numerous, too. You don't need to investigate the bodies to figure that out, and you can't figure anything else out."

((Volunteering for boarding party duty. Just saying.))

((Volunteering to not go on a boarding party.))

"I am fine with the plan and eager for the briefing."