hand-spell specialist name?

[messy]

a wizard who specializes in death spells is called a necromancer.

a wizard who specializes in illusion spells is called an illusionist.

a wizard who specializes in enchantment spells is called an enchanter.

what would a wizard who specializes in hand spells (interposing hand, for example) be called?

 

[Umbran]

Manumancer?

Bigby?

(I think the hand spells are all evocations - so the caster is probably an evoker, really)

I always wanted to have a variant, used for taunting, named "Bigby's Rude Gesture".

 

[Wednesday Boy]

I'd call them a bigbist.

 

[NerfedWizard]

If you're going to go with "-mancer" which I think has Greek origins, shouldn't you go with a Greek prefix?

So Cheiromancer meaning hand-mancer? [Ed. or Chiromancer?]

Bear in mind I don't speak Greek.

Then again, this is very silly. Why on earth would a spellcaster specialise in big hands? It's rather like driving a red sports car isn't it. It says something about... overcompensating for a certain something!

 

[Asmor]

Those spells are great for leading animals into traps, so I'd call someone who specialized in them a Master Baiter

 

[Umbran]

If you're going to go with "-mancer" which I think has Greek origins, shouldn't you go with a Greek prefix?

Does my game have Greeks or Romans? Technically "-mancy" only applies to divination - we're already abusing it, might as well go whole-hog.

This is English - a language that does not so much borrow words, as it does follow other languages down dark alleys, mug them, and rifle through their pockets for spare grammar. Propriety be darned!

Then again, this is very silly. Why on earth would a spellcaster specialise in big hands? It's rather like driving a red sports car isn't it. It says something about... overcompensating for a certain something!

"You know what they say about sorcerers with big hands..."

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Digimancer?

Phalangeomancer?

 

[Jhaelen]

So Cheiromancer meaning hand-mancer? [Ed. or Chiromancer?]

Yes, however,iirc, Cheiromancy is what hand-reading is called. It seems weird (to me) to call a wizard specializing in Bigby's spells like that. What are these 'hand' spells? They're all just variations of applying telekinetic force to targets - that they're hand-shaped is just cosmetic. So, I'd call the mage simply a telekineticist or possibly psychokineticist. Alternatively, call it a force mage. My Greek is a bit rusted, but according to Google, it's called dynamae, so you'd end up with something like a 'dynamancer'.

 

[NerfedWizard]

At some risk of confusion with the Dinomancer, whose signature spell is Summon Tarrasque...


... a spell feared above all not for the Tarrasque's actual attacks as statted in the MM, nor for its reflective carapace and 676 hit points, but because it can be summoned to appear 20' above the heads of your enemies, none of whom can run fast enough to cover the distance to get out of the way before it lands ...

 

[Celebrim]

what would a wizard who specializes in hand spells (interposing hand, for example) be called?

A prestidigitator.