Anything where magic/psychic abilities are in born and magic users are feared.
Wheel of time comes to mind. There is the Tower which teaches skill but the power is just in certain people and not others to start. The White Cloaks hunt down those with the power.
So some versions of Merlin are he...
The last time I used charm person as a good PC I used it to interrogate bad guys instead of intimidation. I was really sick of threats of torture coming from other (not good) PCs.
I remember using it on a guard and taking him out to lunch/buy drinks at a bar off duty to get him to chat and...
The drawback of temporarily licensed titles.
I always wanted the old DC Magic, Watchmen, and Whos Who sourcebooks.
I would like to get PDFs of old Doctor Who, MERP, The Willow Sourcebook, Thieves World, and others as well.
I think it is going to vary a lot based on the actual cosmology, the specific magics available, the specific gods involved, and the history of the world and its cultures.
D&D afterlife varies - in 4e the gods of knowledge and death do not know what happens to souls after they leave their period...
I've done the reverse. :)
I played a (pathfinder 1e) sorcerer with the stars (mythos) bloodline where his noble family generations earlier had engineered a mythos encounter/event thing in their ancestral hall to develop a sorcerous bloodline among them.
It doesn't give you magical knowledge, it gives you magical power. Anybody can make a pact, it does not require any study or learning or work the way wizardry does.
Anybody can make a pact, not everybody is born with magical power.
You could narratively say a pact was how you gained sorcerous...
The big thing to me is the story elements.
Sorcerers are inborn natural magicians doing a few things but doing them with power and some natural bending to make those things go different ways. This works also conceptually as the same concept as monsters with inborn magic like dragons.
The...
Gygax did provide a sort of example 1e shop that sells curing potions in the Temple of Elemental Evil. In the ne'er do well town of Nulb there is Mother Screng's Herb shop which has three jars of Keoghtum's ointment she will explicitly sell to good parties after they prove themselves going into...