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D&D Sunday morning quiz: Magic!
Written by Yax - Published on February 23, 2008

DNDSMQ 02-24-08

All that talk about dragons flying magically (here and here) got me thinking about spells! This quiz might be tougher on all the fighter types out there.

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This week’s quiz - Magic!

What’s the range of a magic missile?

  • 100 ft. + 10 ft./level
  • Line of sight
  • Both

What are the material components Fireball

  • A bit of fur and an amber, crystal, or glass rod.
  • A tiny ball of bat guano and sulfur.
  • A bit of tallow, a pinch of brimstone, and a dusting of powdered iron.
  • A wizard and a monster

A 5th level fighter, a 7th level sorcerer, and a 12th level wizard walk into an empty bar. The sorcerer and wizard both cast mirror image. How many spellcasters does the fighter see?

  • 2d4+4
  • 2d4+6
  • 2d4+8
  • 2d4+10

Are there enough people in the bar to party?

  • No. There’s really only 3 guys in there.
  • No. I don’t party with wizards.
  • No. Mirror image only lasts 1 minute per level.
  • Yes. I drink by myself all the time anyway.

How much are you going to spend on components if you want to cast Identify

  • At least 100gp
  • At least 500gp
  • At least 1000gp

What’s the prerequisite of Shadow Walk

  • You must be in the Plane of Shadow.
  • You must be in an area of shadowy illumination.
  • You must turn the light off.
  • You must have a shadow monster under you.

Implosion allows a spellcaster to kill 1 corporeal creature per level (fortitude negates). What’s the level of the spell?

  • Cleric 9
  • Druid 9
  • Wizard 9
  • Awesome 9

IMPOSSIBLE QUESTION - Name one spell in the Air Domain (Not case sensitive. Be careful - a single typo will result in a wrong answer)

How would you like the fake cross-bred spell Antipathy Field (Antimagic Field / Antipathy) to behave?

  • Everyone in a 10ft. radius is pissed off by the caster
  • Everyone in a 10ft. radius dislikes everyone else in the area of effect.
  • Everyone in a 10ft. radius feels an urge to go away
  • What kind of a question is this?

How great is Dungeon Mastering?

  • It’s just great.
  • It’s awesome.
  • It’s uber-awesome.
  • It’s red-dragon-awesome.

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  1. Maikl
    3:59 am on February 23rd, 2008

    67%. Not that bad.

  2. Graham
    4:37 am on February 23rd, 2008

    Hmm…

    Your score before profiling: 110 / 100
    Your psycholigical profiling modifier: -19
    YOUR SCORE: 91%

    How is my score before the random modifier above 100%?

    Edit: Yay! Editing!

  3. Michael
    7:22 am on February 23rd, 2008

    That was fun. 93%

    I’m relieved. I haven’t played for so long, I was worried I would have forgotten everything.

    I mispelled Air Walk (as one word) and thought mirror image was 1d4+3.

  4. Wonx
    8:10 am on February 23rd, 2008

    Your score before profiling: 100 / 100
    Your psycholigical profiling modifier: 6
    YOUR SCORE: 106%

    More than perfect! Impressive! Are you under the effect of an Omniscience spell?

    D&D - the only thing I can give more then 100% to . . .

  5. FireRaven
    8:45 am on February 23rd, 2008

    “Your score before profiling: 84 / 100
    Your psycholigical profiling modifier: 16
    YOUR SCORE: 100%”
    have been playing for 14 years doing poorly would have been emparassing!

  6. Peo
    9:29 am on February 23rd, 2008

    I got a good score but the stupid profiling lowered my note

    Your score before profiling: 90 / 100
    Your psycholigical profiling modifier: -27
    YOUR SCORE: 63%

    I’m not going on this blog anymore. I think everybody should boycot dungeonmastering.com On top of that the admin is a bad looser!!!

  7. Jamie
    9:38 am on February 23rd, 2008

    “Your score before profiling: 100 / 100
    Your psycholigical profiling modifier: -6
    YOUR SCORE: 94%”

    So, on the last quiz, I had over 100, plus a positive profiling modifier…and on this one I had exactly 100, plus a negative profiling modifier…is the modifier just random?

    (Note to admin: “psychological” is spelled incorrectly in the results.)

  8. The DM
    9:58 am on February 23rd, 2008

    Thought I’sa doing well until I checked the comments:

    Your score before profiling: 80 / 100
    Your psycholigical profiling modifier: 8
    YOUR SCORE: 88%

    :(

    Damn you, Yax. Damn you all to hell!

  9. Duran Duran
    10:07 am on February 23rd, 2008

    My “Psycholigical” modifier is a -12, but my “Psychological” modifier is a +10,000. So there.

  10. Arashi
    12:22 pm on February 23rd, 2008

    I too thought I was doing alright until I saw the comments, heh

    Your score before profiling: 85 / 100
    Your psycholigical profiling modifier: -6
    YOUR SCORE: 79%

  11. Dave T. Game
    12:33 pm on February 23rd, 2008

    A lot of negative psychological profiling going on in this one! Yax must hate spell-casters :)

  12. Kili
    1:55 pm on February 23rd, 2008

    “Your score before profiling: 87 / 100
    Your psycholigical profiling modifier: 9
    YOUR SCORE: 96%

    Astounding! Almost perfect! You’re a wizard, right?”

    No I’m not a wizard, I’m a Ranger with Wizards as my favored enemy. Know thy enemy.

  13. Reverend Mike
    2:08 pm on February 23rd, 2008

    Your score before profiling: 110 / 100
    Your psycholigical profiling modifier: 11
    YOUR SCORE: 121%

    Never played a caster, much less a wizard…just have an encyclopedic knowledge of the core books…

  14. Francois B
    2:16 pm on February 23rd, 2008

    Your score before profiling: 95 / 100
    Your psycholigical profiling modifier: 8
    YOUR SCORE: 103%

    !!
    http://www.d20srd.org/index.htm

  15. Ben
    2:57 pm on February 23rd, 2008

    Your score before profiling: 110 / 100
    Your psycholigical profiling modifier: 29
    YOUR SCORE: 139%

    Really! Wow! I guess the last six years were for something.

  16. Saragon
    3:02 pm on February 23rd, 2008

    110%! Without research, too. Kinda scary.

  17. niggle
    3:10 pm on February 23rd, 2008

    Your score before profiling: 100 / 100
    Your psychological profiling modifier: 6
    YOUR SCORE: 106%

    More than perfect! Impressive! Are you under the effect of an Omniscience spell?
    :)

  18. valerette
    3:27 pm on February 23rd, 2008

    Your score before profiling: 100 / 100
    Your psycholigical profiling modifier: -6
    YOUR SCORE: 94%

    ok, so despite my negative modifier (must…not….make fun..) it shows that I really like playing wizards.

  19. Sandrinnad
    4:56 pm on February 23rd, 2008

    Your score before profiling: 72 / 100
    Your psycholigical profiling modifier: -11
    YOUR SCORE: 61%

    fun :D kinda surprised at what I knew though!

    editing….cool, thanks for adding it Yax!

  20. Yax
    5:22 pm on February 23rd, 2008

    Looks like everyone except Peo is enjoying the quiz. :p

    And by the way, I know how to spell “psychological”. I just made a tyop.

  21. Adalore
    10:15 pm on February 23rd, 2008

    Your score before profiling: 95 / 100
    Your psycholigical profiling modifier: -11
    YOUR SCORE: 84%

    Congratulations! You are quite knowledgeable! You should be a wizard, or at least a bard.

    Feel free to share your score by leaving a comment below.

    Hahaha, the only one that threw me off was mirror image.
    Although I have no sticken clue whats with the “Psycholigical” profiling… >_>
    is it with the last question with the How good is Dungeonmastering…
    Tell usss!!!!

    CHAIN LIGHTNING!!!!!

  22. Yax
    12:19 am on February 24th, 2008

    The psychological profiling is a state-of-the-art semi-scientific way of changing quiz scores for no valid reasons. Do you like red dragons? Do you enjoy gnome-punting? It’s somehow all taken into account.

  23. argokirby
    1:05 am on February 24th, 2008

    Haha, 68%. That’s almost passing! My players say the same thing about my DMing.

    Side note, Yax, you should do an article on the proper way to write DMing or is it Dming, or is it DM-ing. You know, get the important stuff out there!

    I edited just for fun… Also, you miss spelled typo!

  24. HolyYakker
    2:36 pm on February 24th, 2008

    112% Only thing I got wrong was the caster level for Implosion (never even HEARD of that spell) other than that, great job. :) (and the site liked me today +15).

  25. Brenton
    9:26 pm on February 24th, 2008

    Your score before profiling: 110 / 100
    Your psycholigical profiling modifier: 22
    YOUR SCORE: 132%

    Damn, that’s the first positive modifier I’ve gotten.

  26. nw_meyer
    10:56 am on February 25th, 2008

    Just thought I’d point out that Implosion is not one creature/level, it’s one creature/round of concentration, up to four rounds, maxing out at 4 affected creatures (assuming they fail the save).

    101%, the line of site thing got me.

  27. Roleplay
    11:53 am on February 25th, 2008

    These quizzes give me headaches.

  28. Yax
    12:08 pm on February 25th, 2008

    @nw_meyer:
    Yep, I indeed messed up implosion slightly. It’s still Awesome 9 though.

    @Roleplay:
    Thank you?

  29. kmullera
    12:23 pm on February 26th, 2008

    Your score before profiling: 102 / 100
    Your psycholigical profiling modifier: 18
    YOUR SCORE: 120%

    More than perfect! Impressive! Are you under the effect of an Omniscience spell?

  30. kmullera
    12:30 pm on April 17th, 2008

    Your score before profiling: 99 / 100
    Your psycholigical profiling modifier: -23
    YOUR SCORE: 76%

    Im not bad at all!!!
    cool

  31. Michelle
    5:58 pm on May 15th, 2008

    Your score before profiling: 80 / 100
    Your psycholigical profiling modifier: -14
    YOUR SCORE: 66%

    Congratulations! You are quite knowledgeable! You should be a wizard, or at least a bard.

    how is feather fall not in the air domain???? ugh….

  32. Issac
    12:49 pm on May 21st, 2008

    Gud Gawds you people are major magic minded smarties, I need to study more spells.

  33. LEONIDOS
    6:03 pm on June 24th, 2008

    51 PANTS

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