Class Consciousness: The Wizard

“Sorcery is a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it.” ― George R.R. Martin On the surface, it would seem, it should be quite easy to replicate the structures of a class-based “magic-user” in a…
“Sorcery is a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it.” ― George R.R. Martin On the surface, it would seem, it should be quite easy to replicate the structures of a class-based “magic-user” in a…
“In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.” ― Patti Smith Of all the…
This thief was an artist of theft. Other thieves merely stole everything that was not nailed down, but this thief stole the nails as well.” ― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery As we discussed in the previous Class Consciousness entry on…
Every class, as a class, is almost sure to have more defects than qualities. As soon as you put men together, they somehow sink, corporatively, below the level of the worst of the individuals composing it. ― Aleister Crowley, Magick…
“The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.” — Grant Morrison Fantasy fiction — from the Connecticut Yankee to the D&D cartoon — is filled with tales of people from present-day mundane worlds being transported to different dimensions…
“Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.” – Miguel de Cervantes Living in the Weft, or even a prolonged visit, is not for the faint. There is no day or night, just the ever-present glow of the lava…
It would be interesting to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions.” ― Malcolm Gladwell We mentioned in a previous post that the race rules in The Fantasy…
“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” ― Pablo Picasso It should go without saying that writing an RPG makes you think a lot about rules. Is a rule fair? Is it…