The more I get into WoD, the more I'm Jesse to my friend's Walt
Granted, Entropy 4 can just give someone a disease, so Jesse is overcomplicating the matter and I really don't think this oculd be anything but Vulgar Magic, but....
Had a similar argument someone wanting to use heat metal to make and impromptu fireball using metal powder, I don't think any one agreed with the guy that it wasn't pushing things a bit too hard
Hey, now. I feel attacked. 🤣🤌🏼
Having run both MTAs and MTAw, I prefer not having so many spheres to achieve a relatively simple goal. Like in this case, you are looking to use three spheres at reasonably high ratings to just remove a guard. In MTAw you could use any one Arcana at 3 or 4 to accomplish the same task.
Time 4: The guard is transported a day into the future.
Forces 2: Render your group invisible and soundless.
Life 4: The guard is turned into a rat or whatever.
Mind 2: The guard forgets the group was there, or any higher rank to just mind control the guard in various ways (MTAs can also do this with the single sphere)
Prime 4: The guard is forced to look into the Supernal and his eyes are burned out in the process. Dick move.
Space 4: The guard is teleported away.
Spirit 4: Chuck the guard across the gauntlet.
And if you just want to kill or incapacitate the guard any single Arcana can do that at 3 (bashing) or 4 (lethal) all by itself.
TBF, this is clearly an intern-level slinger gettin' sweaty and blithely careening toward oblivion at record speed. I give 'em two sessions tops before they're rolling up a new character. 🤣
Ehat is mta?
World of Darkness is a setting that includes Mage: The Ascension which OP is referencing. (MTAs)
The same publisher released a later gameline now referred to as Chronicles of Darkness which includes Mage: The Awakening (MTAw) with a similar dynamic magic system.
I was in a band called Vulgar Magic. We were dreadful but charming.
I don't pressume I could listen to your songs anywhere?
If you can change water into air:
Step 1 has prereqs beyond the capacity of this noob mage, and Step 2'd more likely result in them tipping into the bottomless well within. 😅
Use the Catapult spell to throw one of the following: A javelin at a target 3d8 bludgeoning plus, if you can try to get the DM to let you roll a d20 to see if the pointy end stuck in for an extra d6 piercing. At level 3, upcast this and launch a greatsword instead for an extra 2d6 and likely destroying the sword.
If the DM is being a stickler: Get someone in the group to roll 2 levels of Artificer(potentially you as the wizard) get the alchemy jug infusion at level 2. Every day, provided the gang doesn't find out it can make a lot of wine or beer, you can make two vials of acid. Sell one per day to recoup cost of empty vials. Catapult vial at target, 3d8 bludgeoning and 2d6 acid on hit.
I’d argue you need correspondence to cast it to a place you can’t see, but that’s just how I run it, every table is different.