Lawful Good:
Foresight to convince the smart, powerful people that they’re making bad decisions, influence them to make better decisions for the world, only use it for enough personal gain to sustain a decent living.
Neutral Good:
Mass Suggestion Convince the dumb powerful people I’m a divine being and they better do as I say, use this power to force positive change amongst the easiest to control masses. Collection plates at churches now go to me.
Chaotic Good:
Gate, Use teleportation to extort billionaires by witnessing their depravity and threatening them with exposure, also portal tech. become Rick Sanchez. Rob swiss banks for fun and profit.
Lawful Evil:
Meteor Swarm: Hold cities hostage for ransom.
Chaotic Evil:
True Polymorph: I’m going to start turning politicians into lizards. For cash I’ll turn random shit into itself but but made out of a different material and auction if off, passing myself off as a great artist of incredible talent.
Edit because I forgot about the money half way through.
I like how as you descend into evil and madness you increasingly discard the “don’t draw attention to yourself” part and with chaotic evil the wealth generation aspect is pretty much forgotten. The progression feels right.
You mixed up ‘chaotic evil’ and ‘chaotic good’
I’m torn between targeting just the worst world leaders or targeting them at random. The end goal would be making every politician understand that a mysterious force WILL turn you into a lizard if you displease it. There will be no indication of what displeases the mysterious force.
If you do it randomly they will all understand that the problem is ‘world leaders’ if you do it based on a ranking system you will have ones who think they are one of the ‘good ones’ and so safe.
Prestidigitation, and a residency in Las Vegas. David Copperfield was able to buy a private island, imagine what I could do with real magic!
Wish is an easy one, since it can be used to cast most of the other spells talked about here
Clone, immortality without any of the normal downsides (I can choose to die still and don’t need souls or any bs like that)
Identify and go pawn shop hunting and the like
Really most divination spells would be solid for stock market manipulation
Enchantment spells for manipulating the corporate ladder, or getting into politics or something (mass suggestion in the really any political nexus, geus for more targeted things, modify memory, etc).
Healing and revivification spells and sell my services to the elite, bring back the dead, speak to loved ones, etc. Clone works well here too, especially since it has age manipulation.
Mending, open a phone repair business. People would just think I’m really good at my job!
Also: Borrowed Knowledge + Fabricate
So does nobody read the spell description for Mending, or…
This spell repairs a single break or tear in an object you touch, such as broken chain link, two halves of a broken key
How many people are neatly snapping their phone into two halves?
A single broken solder joint on a board sounds like it qualifies.
Fireba- Oh wait, without drawing attention? Invisibility and Dimension Door to steal riches.
Look, I didn’t ask about the size of the room. I said fireball.
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Step 1. Cast foresight
Step 2. Go to Vegas
Step 3. Profit- Get booted from every casino after making a mild amount of money
FTFY
Plan 1: Raulothim’s Psychic Lance. By the time I get to take that spell, I must have had at least one ASI so I’ll just take metamagic adept for subtle spell. I just have to know the name of the target and be within 120 feet of them (240 if the second metamagic option I take is distant spell), and it’s pretty close to a guaranteed kill vs. a commoner, no murder weapon, and nothing showing that I was there.
Plan 2: Clone. Claim that it’s some revolutionary stem cell rejuvenation therapy and sell it to the super-rich. (Though I might make it fail accidentally if it’s someone like Murdoch or Kissinger. Payment in advance, no guarantees, and I’ll do it on international waters.)
Use Augury to slightly improve my odds in online poker. My winnings are legal and legitimate, I don’t have to leave the house so no one can tell I’m doing magic, and there’s nothing to notice other than I’m unusually good at the game.
EDIT: On second thought, online sports betting is a thing now. I’m changing my answer to that.
Fireball
The answer is always fireball.
Something my buddy always says is “Fireball isn’t the answer. It’s the question. And the answer is always ‘Yes’.” Wise words, i’d figure.
You could get some great use out of fabricate and proficiency in something related to computer architecture.
Legend Lore could equally grant you valuable knowledge to sell, and similarly half the divination spells could make you a very successful gambler.
To maximise staying under the radar, probably fabricate. You’d not be amazingly rich, but you could establish a decent living with a lot of free time. If you want to be amazingly rich and you squint hard enough at fabricate and what tool proficiency count mean in the modern world you can probably make some bank with a bit of study of chemistry or engineering. Being able to magically create complex drugs or something is going to draw attention though.
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Learn charm
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Use it to get hired as the pastor of a megachurch
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Use it on the congregation
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Mage hand and offer ghost handjobs for $1000 per person per handjob
Doesn’t really sound like it wouldn’t draw attention
Who would want to admit that they used their services?
Me. I would. Sounds dope.
(Hi, yes, it’s been 5 months and I felt compelled to write this.)
Eldritch blast + spell sniper for no particular reason
Don’t forget to go metamagic adept so you can cast them without any indication that it is you twice a day! Or multiclass into sorcerer!
