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Computer science terms that sound like fantasy RPG abilities
I’ll start:
- Firewall
- Virtual Memory
- Single source of truth
- Lossless Compression (this one sounds really powerful for some reason)
Your turn
Hard mode: Try not to include closer to domain-specific things like javascript library names
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Boot Loop - ties someone’s shoelaces together
Boot Loops, when you can’t afford Fruit Loops.
I could actually see this being a cantrip for a bard or arcane trickster. It’s almost innocent in its mischief but would be a worthwhile hindrance on the battlefield.
For shoes without laces and creatures without shoes it could simply loop magical string around them.
Prob just a cut to movement with a dex save at the start of every move (like once per turn but they can avoid it by choosing not to move). Doesn’t need to be a high save, but if they fail, they trip.
Since it’s a cantrip they can remove the string with an action, and they last a number of turns equal to caster level.
I’d also love to see a DM be creative with how much it effects certain creatures. Centipede? Probably a little pissed but not too hindered by stumbling on one pair of legs. 1 legged Pete? Completely unaffected as he jumps at you with his 1 leg.
Scroll lock. To protect your scrolls.
Or prevent an opposing caster from using one or more scrolls
Think that’s that wizards get when they’re having trouble studying.
There’s an infamous tech support tale dating back to the Windows 95 days of a very religious lady who wanted all of the wizards removed from her computer. Similar for an individual who absolutely did not want any mice around their computer
Happy cake day!
Huh, no shit! It’s been a year already.
I think that means I’m getting old.
Heartbleed
a list of named vulnerabilities would be a great starter
I cast CVE-2014-0160… at the darkness
I cast CVE-2015-0565 at the goblin horde.
I am a level 17 Install Wizard.
Roll for intelligence… 16. The progress of the one hit BEG killing spell is 33%
<many turns later>
Roll for intelligence… 3. The progress of the one hit BEG killing spell is 96%. That’s the only action you can take on your turn. You better hope the party can stop the army from hitting the power source of this spell before it finishes.
Roll for intelligence… 5. Since that would be more than 100 the progress of the spell rolls back to 91%.
Installation Wizard - A wizard hired to protect a specific building or location.
alternatively just an HVAC technician who casts enchantments
“For the last time i am NOT an ‘installation wizard’, i am an engineer! I didn’t spend 5 years studying enchantments just for people to compare me to bedsheet-wearing dementia-addled codgers!”
The Wizard requests permission to edit the Registry.
Polymorphism
The orc becomes a pile of gelatin, quivering, you now must choose what it will become.
Roll for…
… seduction
You roll a 1.
This causes an unauthorized access exception and a giant bouncer rapidly approaches, screaming in fury.
I love your username
Encapsulation kinda sounds like it could be a spell too. That’s 2/3 pillars of OOP.
The last one was atomization, right? Gets a bit out of fantasy, but can definitely sound magical
I cast atomization on the giant. (9th level warlock spell)
On a failed save the targets head evaporates killing them outright.
On a success roll a d4 (or higher for higher number of limbs) and the limb clockwise from the head evaporates. Dealing either 25% or 150HP which ever is higher damage.
Asynchronous Threads
Port Forward (this one just sounds like a dope place)
Remote Host
Domain Controller
Immutable Type
Terminal escape
Privilege escalation
Command injection
World wide web would be an OP spell
A crack forms below you… and suddenly a tunnel collapses inward beneath your feet.
After a short while your fall is arrested. You are now snagged in a web, in the dim light lit from where you fell you can see this web goes on, all around you, seemingly forever.
Zero Trust: curse. You become suspicious of your allies.
PowerShell
Get-Date
Read-Host
Remove-Alias
Remove-Event
Sort-Object
Remove Event: 5th level spell, cast as a reaction. Instantly negates the previous action. Spell DC wisdom check.
Deep magic, black art, heavy wizardry, almost feels like cheating.
I don’t even know computer stuff, just picked these up via osmosis.
EDIT: blue screen of death is a very powerful abjuration spell
Gateway Interplanetary filesystem Netmask Daemon Shadow copy Avatar
Doesn’t ipfs stand for interplenary file system?
Now that’s a final boss
- Brute Force Attack
- Markov Chain
- Singular Matrix
- Pow
- map
- bind
- variable name (thief’s favorite)
- Ballmer Peak
- Fourier Transformation (2nd level: FFT)
- Gaussian Elimination
- Double
Variable name - 7th level wizard spell.
For the next 24hours; nothing about the targets identity may be discovered by magical or mundane means. Anyone inquiring about the target has a plausible and consistent story placed in their mind instead; it doesn’t matter what the target tells them or what they see.
Someone with the Truesight ability; will know that there is magical concealment active, but will be unable to discern any details about the target.
Some fun ones here you guys can help me think of their purpose
Print spool MAC address System Time IPV4 and IPV6 Air gap Random Access Memory OS Kernal Memory Contoller South bridge North Bridge Corruption Device Manager Encryption SALT API Key System Services Device Drivers
Rust - rusts metal. When miscast, makes the target a crab of some sort
Go - Same as “command” spell
Regular Expression - makes any cryptic message understandable in a language you know
Transfer Protocol - allows the teleportation of one packet to a willing host
Read Only - cast on a book, scroll or any other thing with written words. Ensures no further words can be written. No scribbles or any sort of artwork will stick either. The object can still be destroyed
Icon - For a short period, the target of the spell becomes a beloved, or hated, icon of a subject. IE: beloved icon of beauty, hated icon of music.
Master Boot Record - this magical list contains all the master level boots ever created and their current whereabouts
Partition Table - allows any object with at least 2 flat sides to be cut into any shape
I love that Master Boot Record, implies that at some point a group of Artificer-Cobblers created the “Master Boots”; a set of legendary items so powerful that a magical record was also created to track their whereabouts, lest they fall into the wrong hands.
