Tiberius Christ posted:

only d4 hit dice, no thanks

SilvergunSuperman posted:

It's all very clear what the differences between a summoner vs necromancer vs diviner vs enchanter etc etc are, but can someone break down sorcerer vs wizard vs magician for me?

Ignatius M. Meen posted:

my outlook and faxes used to, but no longer, get along. I can still get into the faxes but in order to do so I must enact a ritual as well:

1. open the fax folder. Outlook will tell me there is nothing to see.
2. right click the fax folder and select Properties. Outlook will act as if it is working to do this, then die.
3. restart Outlook, and reopen the fax folder. Outlook will now do the computer program equivalent of rolling its eyes back in its head, twisting its neck until it's facing backwards, and so on
4. wait this out. eventually the folder will load in and actually display faxes. there will be a wait of at least 15-30 seconds before any of them open though while Outlook half-asses the demonic possession/overly dramatic baby routine again

fortunately I work in fedgov so even though I'm a call center rep generally nobody expects things to work smoothly anyway, and the overly dramatic baby routine never takes longer than it would have taken to get a fax in the first place

SilvergunSuperman posted:

It's all very clear what the differences between a summoner vs necromancer vs diviner vs enchanter etc etc are, but can someone break down sorcerer vs wizard vs magician for me?

SilvergunSuperman posted:

can someone break down sorcerer vs wizard vs magician for me?

Deki posted:

Wizard: Hopeless nerd who needs to rely on books and knowledge to cast magic. Probably all white haired and crusty.

Sorcerer: Your great grandfather was a dragon who had a human fetish. You don't need to know anything to cast the spell, you just loving do it. Not needing to sit in a library for decades means you have more time to actually enjoy being magical

Magician. Some rear end in a top hat with card tricks.

Blurry Gray Thing posted:

The Magi are Zoroastrians. Zoroastrianism was never a very big faith, so they're not the ones who wrote the things that had such a big influence on modern western society. So that means they're a very strange group of people with very strange traditions and secret knowledge they totally aren't sharing with the public. Magic. But also they never caused much trouble, so they're not necessarily bad. They gave Jesus some gold and incense.

SilvergunSuperman posted:

It's all very clear what the differences between a summoner vs necromancer vs diviner vs enchanter etc etc are, but can someone break down sorcerer vs wizard vs magician for me?

Rutibex posted:

i thought that was "Quantum Magic"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20ru6E3cuqc

maybe i should actually read some of these books i've pirated

Facebook Aunt posted:

Myomancy or bust

Asterite34 posted:

I will confess, lately at work one of the really really important machines has been loving up in a way no maintenance guy can justify (software glitch of some sort) and I have recently taken to doodling vaguely magical-looking sigils on post-it notes and slapping them on the POS when it's being especially uncooperative. As someone who is generally a fan of science and rational skepticism, it irritates me that, faced with a problem that defies any rational or scientific analysis or solution, that I find myself resorting to superstitious mysticism just for some peace of mind and reassuring ritual.

It irritates me even more when this process has a distressingly high success rate.

Ror posted:

sex magic AND bust

Noblesse Obliged posted:

I fixed robots for a number of years and I always found I had more success when I hurt myself and bled on it while doing it.

Of course they kept wanting more and more of it greedy bastards

Fur20 posted:

this is some gnarley technomancy dude you know most machines are just happy just to be TALKED to right

Rutibex posted:

lots of magical practitioners will call themselves magicians as a generic term. mostly because calling yourself a wizard makes you sound like a dork

Weka posted:

What if I just like pointy hats? What then, smart guy? Should I let my calling define my headwear? What else should I subsume to your ideas about what I should be? My very soul?



E: Mage?! I thought you said a maga.

quote:

In response, the Wizard described his ex-employees at Christchurch council as a “bunch of bureaucrats who have no imagination.”

The Wizard of New Zealand is being removed from the public payroll after over two decades providing “acts of wizardry and other wizard-like services” to Christchurch, at a cost of $368,000.

Christchurch Council’s decision to terminate their contract with the Wizard, Ian Brackenbury Channell, 88, brings a close to his 23-year employment, costing them $16,000 a year.

Council assistant chief executive Lynn McClelland told Stuff: “The council has met with The Wizard and sent him a letter thanking him for his services to Christchurch over the past decades, and informing him that we are bringing our formal contractual arrangement to a close.

Deki posted:

That's a steal for Wizarding services.

McGavin posted:

Mulaney Power Move posted:

Wizards vs. Sorcerer is simple. Wizards are masters of elemental magic. They only cast spells from those circles. Dvination, summoning, necromancy, etc. is the realm of a sorcerer, who are masters of spiritual magic.

A wizard hurls lightning bolts, can cause earthquakes, can imbue objects with elemental properties, etc. They use mana to control the elements. Apart from summoning which is high level sorcery, a sorcerer manipulates the flow of mana itself to influence the physical world around them. They basically have the power to use mana itself as a physical force.

They do have similar abilities. Both can teleport or cast similar defensive spells, they just do so through different means - elemental vs spiritual. Wizardly requires greater dexterity and wisdom whereas sorcery requires greater aura as well as wisdom.