Or mostly harmless ways to trick your players using common wizard spells.
- The wizard flies on a rug, his feet strapped down. After admonishing the party from afar, he will offer to sell the rug to them. The rug is mundane. The wizard has cast “Fly” on himself.
- The wizard invites you into his study, furnished with a big shag rug. Stepping on the rug causes you to fall into the pit it was concealing. The wizard has cast “Levitate” on all the furniture in the room.
- The wizard dips a dry brush into a palette as he finishes a painting. He offers to sell it for a discount. The canvas is real but the wizard has cast “Illusion” to mimic a painting.
- The wizard offers to race the party down an open corridor. The wizard has cast "invisibility" on a door half-way in the hallway and wants the party to run into it Wil-E-Coyote style.
- The wizard boasts of his great power. He is level 5 with 8 hit points and is extremely reckless. He carries nothing of value on him and is always prepared for a comedic death.
- You catch the wizard while he casts “Sending.” The recipient of the message? Your hot, single mom.
- The wizard frequently casts “Scrying” on your party and watches you like TV. He’s developed a parasocial relationship and will humorously quote your iconic phrases back at you when you meet.
- The wizard has cast “Continual Light” on a silver ball he hangs from the ceiling. He claims it is an ancient relic from the age of disco, (or the age of learning to scholars). By completing a ritualistic dance beneath its beams of light, the wizard can learn “soul” magic.
- The wizard likes to cast “Enlarge” on himself to always be the tallest in the room, though only by an inch or two.
- The wizard needs to get rid of a pesky monster/cursed artifact/experiment gone awry. He pretends to be dead and uses “Ventriloquism” to have the object he wants disposed of loudly declare its ill intentions in the hopes the party takes care of it.
- After bringing chili and beans for the potluck at your house, the wizard casts “Hold portal” on your bathroom door.
- The wizard sends letters in ancient tongues to the party, only discernible via “Read Languages.” The letters are ads for various language classes.
- The wizard casts a foul curse of poverty against you. The “curse” is just him casting “Locate Object” to find your treasure and steal it while you’re not looking.
- As above, but the wizard casts a curse of death. Using the money he stole, he hires a bunch of mercs to gank you. He also buys them cool Nazgul costumes to really sell the curse thing.
- The wizard will offer to swap spellbooks for mutual study. He casts “Erase” to destroy any spells he already knows and then offers to sell you those spells back from his own spellbook.
- When resting, the wizard insists on casting “Sleep” on himself to take a nap. Its area of effect will hit the party as well.
- The wizard has an “Unseen servant” or “Mage Hand” that pulls down your pants at the most inconvenient.
- The wizard challenges you to a game of dodgeball. He will cast “Invisibility” on the ball right before he throws it.
- The wizard casts “Fly” and soars above the party before pelting them with eggs. He’ll fly with the sun behind him so they can’t see who it is.
- The wizard bores of these japes and jaunts. He offers to apprentice a party member, for a “small” fee. The prank? Student debt. Alternatively, the wizard treats his apprentice like a graduate student, I think that’s another appropriate sick joke.
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