Breathe life into your smartest casters by considering the smartest people.
Wizards are pretty incredible, what with their dazzling array of cosmic powers and daunting intellect. They can, however, be challenging to role play due to said intellect, and it's easy to rely on classic archetypes when you aren't sure where to go. That's why in this episode we try to get into the minds of the real life wizards that have blown away our perceptions of reality throughout history, known as scientists, and create our best wizards yet.
Building those incredible characters comes from exploring that initial idea and giving them just enough detail to be able to step into them at the table.
That's why we go to Kinship Camp to run the idea of a scientific wizard through our Character Planner, coming out the other side with some pretty exciting characters. We draw from the scientific idols of Lise Meitner, who cracked nuclear fission, and Nikola Tesla, who figured out alternating current.
Then we go to Grandma B's Schoolhouse to talk more about Tesla, because he was an actual Wizard, and we couldn't get enough. Part of why he was so interesting was because he had a lot of traits that didn't fall into the classic vision of a scientist, like being a socialite and loving pigeons. Borrowing simple unexpected traits like these at the table makes characters very real very quickly.