Typhon
2017-03-24, 02:05 PM
So I keep seeing many people on the forums talking about the various spell casters and how they imagine them.
My question is simple and I am just trying to see what the consensus is, there is no right or wrong. I am just trying to ascertain what Playgrounders see as training for the role of an arcane spellcaster, divine spellcaster a monk and/or a mystic. I am also curious as to how others perceive their day to day life as such a spellcaster would be.
I bring this up mostly because I have noticed people who are prefer spellcasters seem to think that after attaining magical power, their character just doesn't care about the mundane anymore. Such as trying to avoid weapons over spells, avoiding practical armor over spells, and, well, trying to solve everything with magic. I get it, that is your fantasy belief and it is a good one. I just see it a little different.
To me, Clerics live to serve their Gods and Druids become at one with the spirits of nature. Theirs is a life of service and reverence to those that grant them their powers. Similar for a Paladin and Ranger, just more directly combative to the opposition. Magic is a blessing bestowed on them and one that can be just as easily removed.
Warlocks are the essential ritual casters as I see them gaining their powers from a ritual that bonded them in service/allowed them to steal a portion of power for a Greater Being. However they came to gain their powers, be it a chance deal or discovery during study, the power is their to control as long as they can. If they serve, they do so at their own risk and if they stole it is only as long as fortune favors them.
Sorcerers are born to their power, it is their blood and a defining part of who they are as much as what they are. No matter how it is that they became infused with it, the power simply is theirs to command and forge with purpose.
Bards are the harmony of the spirits of the world and the secrets of knowledge that hide in plain sight. They are a force that can heal the body and the soul, heedless of Gods and spirits. Yet their words and will can charge a mob into a fighting force to be reckoned with. Their power is gained with wit and play countering the oppressiveness of the worlds bleakness.
Wizards find their power in their study of ritual and knowledge. Theirs is power by determination to seek it out, and bring it to bear. Through long hours of study, labors of the body to show determination to persevere to a master or school, and the dangers of experimentation that may do harm to themselves or others. Wizards are flexible to a fault and that flexibility is where they must accept their powers having limitations.
Monks seek unity and perfection of self. Tempering the body to be the extension of the spirit. The spirit harnessed by the mind to empower the body. The monk seeks to rely on only her/himself and to live as one with their world. In doing so they may become more than mortal.
The Mystic seeks to bring forth the full power of their mind and use that power to bend reality. Their strength is not in muscle. Their dexterity is in thought and not flesh. For all the power they possess within their mind, their body is still mortal. Their meditations have sought out the darkest corners of their own minds and given them clarity into themselves.
But that is how I see them. Let me know what you think and if you would be so kind, let me know how you see the spellcasters.
My question is simple and I am just trying to see what the consensus is, there is no right or wrong. I am just trying to ascertain what Playgrounders see as training for the role of an arcane spellcaster, divine spellcaster a monk and/or a mystic. I am also curious as to how others perceive their day to day life as such a spellcaster would be.
I bring this up mostly because I have noticed people who are prefer spellcasters seem to think that after attaining magical power, their character just doesn't care about the mundane anymore. Such as trying to avoid weapons over spells, avoiding practical armor over spells, and, well, trying to solve everything with magic. I get it, that is your fantasy belief and it is a good one. I just see it a little different.
To me, Clerics live to serve their Gods and Druids become at one with the spirits of nature. Theirs is a life of service and reverence to those that grant them their powers. Similar for a Paladin and Ranger, just more directly combative to the opposition. Magic is a blessing bestowed on them and one that can be just as easily removed.
Warlocks are the essential ritual casters as I see them gaining their powers from a ritual that bonded them in service/allowed them to steal a portion of power for a Greater Being. However they came to gain their powers, be it a chance deal or discovery during study, the power is their to control as long as they can. If they serve, they do so at their own risk and if they stole it is only as long as fortune favors them.
Sorcerers are born to their power, it is their blood and a defining part of who they are as much as what they are. No matter how it is that they became infused with it, the power simply is theirs to command and forge with purpose.
Bards are the harmony of the spirits of the world and the secrets of knowledge that hide in plain sight. They are a force that can heal the body and the soul, heedless of Gods and spirits. Yet their words and will can charge a mob into a fighting force to be reckoned with. Their power is gained with wit and play countering the oppressiveness of the worlds bleakness.
Wizards find their power in their study of ritual and knowledge. Theirs is power by determination to seek it out, and bring it to bear. Through long hours of study, labors of the body to show determination to persevere to a master or school, and the dangers of experimentation that may do harm to themselves or others. Wizards are flexible to a fault and that flexibility is where they must accept their powers having limitations.
Monks seek unity and perfection of self. Tempering the body to be the extension of the spirit. The spirit harnessed by the mind to empower the body. The monk seeks to rely on only her/himself and to live as one with their world. In doing so they may become more than mortal.
The Mystic seeks to bring forth the full power of their mind and use that power to bend reality. Their strength is not in muscle. Their dexterity is in thought and not flesh. For all the power they possess within their mind, their body is still mortal. Their meditations have sought out the darkest corners of their own minds and given them clarity into themselves.
But that is how I see them. Let me know what you think and if you would be so kind, let me know how you see the spellcasters.