D&D General What To Call A Gish?

[Baron Opal II]

Witchblade

 

[Thunderfoot]

Fun historical fact...Dragoon was originally mounted infantry. Ride to battle, dismount and fight. Later the term just meant light mounted cavalry. Not that you can't use the term, just a fun fact.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Swordcerer

Macegician

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Fun historical fact...Dragoon was originally mounted infantry. Ride to battle, dismount and fight. Later the term just meant light mounted cavalry. Not that you can't use the term, just a fun fact.

Well, light mounted cavalry archers, and then riflemen. It also became a bit of a distinction of rank in France, at least. The Marquis de Lafeyette was first a musketeer, and then a dragoon, before leaving France and visiting America .

 

[Minigiant]

adept

 

[Jack Daniel]

That's a good option too. In addition to implying breadth of competence (I can easily picture a red mage type being called an "adept"), "adept" has something else going for it in terms of the fantasy literary tradition — in Baum's Oz novels, it's one of five types of studied magic-user on par with wizard, witch, and sorcerer (the fifth being a transformation specialist with a goofy-sounding name that Baum invented).

 

[doctorbadwolf]

That's a good option too. In addition to implying breadth of competence (I can easily picture a red mage type being called an "adept"), "adept" has something else going for it in terms of the fantasy literary tradition — in Baum's Oz novels, it's one of five types of studied magic-user on par with wizard, witch, and sorcerer (the fifth being a transformation specialist with a goofy-sounding name that Baum invented).

Adept ain’t bad. I think I don’t go wild for it just because it doesn’t suggest, to me, mysticism, or esoteric knowledge.

Part of the point of my particular “swordmage” build is to portray members of mystical and esoteric warrior traditions. Ya know, the class the shoalin monk should have been a subclass of, along with European hermetic swordmasters like Thibault, and fantasy examples like the Bladesinger and Shadow Dancer, Final Fantasy Dragoon Knight, or the loosely RL inspired fantasy dervish.

Doing it well will require revision and research and further revision, both for capturing the flavor and for doing so respectfully.

 

[Aldarc]

Adept ain’t bad. I think I don’t go wild for it just because it doesn’t suggest, to me, mysticism, or esoteric knowledge.

Part of the point of my particular “swordmage” build is to portray members of mystical and esoteric warrior traditions. Ya know, the class the shoalin monk should have been a subclass of, along with European hermetic swordmasters like Thibault, and fantasy examples like the Bladesinger and Shadow Dancer, Final Fantasy Dragoon Knight, or the loosely RL inspired fantasy dervish.

Doing it well will require revision and research and further revision, both for capturing the flavor and for doing so respectfully.

Swordsage?

 

[Cap'n Kobold]

Weaveblade (If your world uses the Weave as its basis for magic. - Also denoting the user's motions.)

Kinesthete (As a student of motion and how ic can both generate magic and simply cut.)

Most of the other ideas; Praxic Geometrist for example would be multiple words.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

You can call him anything you like...

He has already cast Silence on you.