Personally a fan of the Sonic Screwdriver, because I like my drinks like I like my ladies: sweet, bubbly, geeky as hell, and able to knock my ass out.

2 parts Sprite

2 parts orange juice

1 part vanilla vodka

1 part Blue Curaçao

Combine and serve in a highball glass on the rocks.

Which is a bit fucking overkill given that the level cap in game is 12.

That’s been your thing since 3e, ya damn whippersnappers! 👴-old Wizards

The Gamers (the original one) made the same joke. Also, available for free on YouTube.

You might be interested in “rolling with emphasis”, a house rule by Brandon Lee Mulligan. Rather than rolling twice and taking the best/worst result, you take the result furthest from 10. Designed for actions that can only end really well or really badly.

I’ve best heard it described as “a rogue and a bard who can only seem to roll Nat 20s and Nat 1s”.

Played by Khary Patyon, aka the voice of Cyborg for the last two decades.

What I mean is that remembering stuff (like what someone casting a fireball looks like) is what 3rd edition would call a Free Action, like talking. You can do it as much as you like (that can reasonably fit into six seconds) at any time during the turn, and it doesn’t take up any resources (like your reaction). Even though you’re rolling a check, it isn’t using part of your turn.

If it did take a reaction to identify a spell as it’s being cast, that would mean that remembering something would take the same about of time and energy as an opportunity attack.

Recalling information never requires an action, the check is just there to determine if you know something or not.

If the spell is on a pc’s class’s spell list and it has components (verbal, somatic, or material), they know if the spell is being cast (e.g. if the wizard sees someone casting Fireball, they recognize it from the arm movements, magic words, and the smell of guano and sulfur). If it isn’t, giving the player a DC (10 + level of the spell) Intelligence (Arcana) check to identify it would also be fair.

From a post on the forums for Order of the Stick:

“Calling a wizard a sorcerer is like telling a college graduate that they only passed because they were naturally gifted.”

“Calling a wizard a warlock is like telling a college graduate that they only passed because they gave the dean a BJ behind the Arby’s.”

For anyone not aware, TFS did a bunch of scenes from the Buu saga to help TotallyNotMark’s review of said arc. There’s a compilation on their main channel.

“Your fucking moral compass is a roulette wheel!”

I’d have gone with “fantasy improv with dice”.