cross ofth carpenter
First Post
Where in the Nine Hells are you getting this from? Not all wizards are Raistlin Majere, you know.
You might as well say that all high level fighters are ax crazy, mass murdering psychopaths who seek to conquer the world in a manner which would shame Genghis Khan and make Hitler weep. Or do you think it healthy to be a member of a profession that involves killing people for a living, and which requires you to kill a great deal of people to reach high levels?
While all wizards might not be the archetypical wizard
who has delusions of power and grandeur,
I would they their class as a whole has a tendency towards
such a thing.
Particularly as they gain in level and therefore
believe that they can bend reality to their will
and see other people as instruments created
to fulfill their purposes and goals.
Not to mention the tendency towards isolation
particularly from society which manifests itself
in the wizard profession as a result of the nature of
the class itself (requiring much study in a library or so)
and also from the general mistrust towards magic-users
which does to some extent exist in the society of a D&D
world.
Not to mention that this distrust by society is further
reinforced by the tendency to see wizards as holding
the common man (considered to be most members of society) in contempt and being skeptical of and not adhering to the religion of the society.