D&D General What To Call A Gish?

[Tales and Chronicles]

Spellbrand?

Spellbrandier?

Edge Mage?

Adept?

 

[TwoSix]

Obviously, fightmage.

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

Obviously, fightmage.

Magic-using-fighting-men

 

[TwoSix]

Magic-using-fighting-men

Elf?

 

[Aldarc]

Magic-using-fighting-men

Old School writing was so brilliant; you wouldn't understand.

 

[jmartkdr2]

Hot take: if we're already talking DnD, just call it a Gish. That's the class name. It's an established term within the community, and easy enough to explain. Certainly no harder to explain than "magus" or "dweonmerwright" (or druid or paladin back in the day)

Also comes with a built-in default flavor of being originally invented by Gith, and then spread around because in a high magic setting of course it would be.

(Or swordmage. People already know class names aren't definitions.)

 

[THEMNGMNT]

Why should something so simply be so hard? And yet it is. My preferred name is Spellblade, although I know not all gishes will use blades. But Spellblade sounds and looks cool.

 

[theCourier]

An Elf

 

[Fenris-77]

I wish to call the Gish a Fish. I put the Gish-Fish in a dish.

 

[Malmuria]

Jedi?