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Class Review: Wizard
NWN Definition: “Wizards are arcane spellcasters who depend on intensive study to create their magic. To wizards, magic is not a talent but a difficult, rewarding art. When they are prepared for battle, wizards can use their spells to devastating effect. When caught by surprise, they are vulnerable. The wizard's strength is her spells. Everything else is secondary. She learns new spells as she experiments and grows in experience, and she can also learn them from other wizards. In addition to learning new spells, a wizard can, over time, learn to manipulate her spells so they go farther, work better, or are improved in some other way. Some wizards prefer to specialize in a certain type of magic. Specialization makes a wizard more powerful in her chosen field, but it denies her access to some of the spells that lie outside that field.”
FRwiki Definition: “Wizards are a form of mage who learn the art of arcane spellcasting through research and learning. What wizards lack in combat prowess and armor they make up with a broad range of magical spells and abilities learned through years of practice and training. Through their spellcasting ability powerful wizards can control the battlefield, using spells that affect wide areas, often hindering enemies, while also learning to use powerful rituals of arcane power.”
http://www.sundren.org/wiki/index.php?title=Wizard
http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Wizard
MY VIEW
Wizards, either good or evil, are obsessed with arcane power. They have to be, as the only way to learn magic as a wizard does is to research it ALMOST to the exclusion of all else. Wizards have to put great emphasis on preparation, as to be caught unprepared is to be dead.
I do not claim not to be guilty of this, but wizards shouldn’t spew spells out frivolously. There should always be a reason, even if it is paranoid insanity.
There are no alignment restrictions for playing a wizard so trying to find a concrete way to RP them outside of the obsession for arcane power is pointless. The reasons can be many and varied.
Hooray for Zoidberg!!! We made it through to here without getting a thread locked. I enjoyed doing this and look forward to going through the PrC’s.
Keep it Clean, thanks.
NWN Definition: “Wizards are arcane spellcasters who depend on intensive study to create their magic. To wizards, magic is not a talent but a difficult, rewarding art. When they are prepared for battle, wizards can use their spells to devastating effect. When caught by surprise, they are vulnerable. The wizard's strength is her spells. Everything else is secondary. She learns new spells as she experiments and grows in experience, and she can also learn them from other wizards. In addition to learning new spells, a wizard can, over time, learn to manipulate her spells so they go farther, work better, or are improved in some other way. Some wizards prefer to specialize in a certain type of magic. Specialization makes a wizard more powerful in her chosen field, but it denies her access to some of the spells that lie outside that field.”
FRwiki Definition: “Wizards are a form of mage who learn the art of arcane spellcasting through research and learning. What wizards lack in combat prowess and armor they make up with a broad range of magical spells and abilities learned through years of practice and training. Through their spellcasting ability powerful wizards can control the battlefield, using spells that affect wide areas, often hindering enemies, while also learning to use powerful rituals of arcane power.”
http://www.sundren.org/wiki/index.php?title=Wizard
http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Wizard
MY VIEW
Wizards, either good or evil, are obsessed with arcane power. They have to be, as the only way to learn magic as a wizard does is to research it ALMOST to the exclusion of all else. Wizards have to put great emphasis on preparation, as to be caught unprepared is to be dead.
I do not claim not to be guilty of this, but wizards shouldn’t spew spells out frivolously. There should always be a reason, even if it is paranoid insanity.
There are no alignment restrictions for playing a wizard so trying to find a concrete way to RP them outside of the obsession for arcane power is pointless. The reasons can be many and varied.
Hooray for Zoidberg!!! We made it through to here without getting a thread locked. I enjoyed doing this and look forward to going through the PrC’s.
Keep it Clean, thanks.
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