Re: Self-sustained vessels?

I think if the wizards sat around all day eating lotus, or smoking heroin,
or whatever, he's not going to get much research done.  He's just going to
vegetate, and when some huge scavver comes by he's going to stare blindly at
it with drool coming out his mouth while it takes a chunk out of his hide.

And besides, isn't the reason these wizards go off alone in thier own
isolated ships to conduct research?  I thought they wanted to get away from
all distractions (which is all entertainment is, after all - a distraction)
so they could put all their energies into their research.  To the type of
wizard that would shun everything and go off alone into space, research
itself is entertaining, research is ejoyable.

I guess you coud also have hermit hippies or something that have their own
ships where they can float off alone and get stoned, but these would not be
the wizards this thread was about, and I really doubt they'd survive very
long, either.  Drugs affect your desire to protect yourself.

But then again, you have the hallucinogens.  The Aztecs were fascinated by
this type of drug, and had a whole class of magic built around it.  Maybe a
chaotic wizard doing a lot of mushrooms or an LSD type of drug, to study
wild magic or something like that.  He'd end up a psycho, though.  Could be
an interesting NPC to dungeon master.  The mad hermit/mage, with the insane
control over wild magic, drifting alone in the depths of space near the
chaos nebula, where wildmagic storms abound.  Some say he is realy a Slaad,
others a demon, but even he does not know, for he is stark, raving mad!  One
day he thinks he's a mouse and the next he is a dragon, and he even
pysically changes into what he thinks he is sometimes!  Could be kewl.

- Coyote, the Desert Dog

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