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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
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.
Mending, open a phone repair business. People would just think I’m really good at my job!
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.
Astral Projection head to America set up an evangelic church
Not very experienced, but I’d probably True Polymorph dirt/Steve Huffman into some gold and sell it.
Suggestion. And then go to Wall Street :)
oh I like you.
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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
that one works so well now, and without any magic.
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Charm, Modify Memory, Illusions, Disguise Self
Always make yourself look way richer and important than you are, the smaller millionaires and celebs will flock to you and the bigger fishes will try to use you but they can’t because… repeat from the start.
At a high enough level, I’d use creation on either gold or diamond. Might be hard to sell a 5x5 block if either but you’d make good money if you could. Or just become a human 3D printer and sell off the things you make.
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.
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:
Time stop 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.
Chaotic Good:
Time stop, extort billionaires, become drunk Tony Stark.
Lawful Evil:
Meteor Swarm: Hold cities hostage for ransom.
Chaotic Evil:
True Polymorph: I’m going to start turning politicians into lizards.
But the politicians are already lizard people. You can’t turn them into lizards if they’re already lizards!
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.
Edit because I forgot about the money half way through.
It’s not about the money, it’s about sending a lizard.
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.
Prestidigitation, and a residency in Las Vegas. David Copperfield was able to buy a private island, imagine what I could do with real magic!
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!
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.
Fabricate would work fantastically, and I think you’re underestimating the amount of money you can make with some craftsman stuff.
People will pay a lot for well done custom made stuff. Knives, swords, furniture… all of it is worth a sizable amount once you have any kind of reputation and start taking commissions. I mean thousand dollar chandeliers and multiple thousand dollar tables.
You also can’t use it to create items that ordinarily require a high degree of craftsmanship, such as jewelry, weapons, glass, or armor, unless you have proficiency with the type of artisan’s tools used to craft such objects.
So you’d need to be half-decent at making a thing the hard way, before you can bang one out in ten minutes from a flawless slab of raw metal.
… no, hang on. You only need to be half-decent at using the relevant tools that would make a thing the hard way. So if you take a shop class you can make aerospace-grade parts. Or, less likely to be audited, and making use of the five-foot-cube limits, you can make some lovely garden sculptures for upper-middle-class schmucks.
Stone Shape, same idea. Especially if you use the “up to two hinges and a latch” to make them really, really rude.
