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<blockquote data-quote="Al'Kelhar" data-source="post: 8164582" data-attributes="member: 7884">Wouldn't any hyper-intelligent wizard have already organised the worldwide destruction of any and all sorcerers?&nbsp; Why is this even an issue?&nbsp; Theocrafting some abstract builds and plonking them in a pocket dimension looking oddly like a white-painted room to cast spells at each other is just mental masturbation.&nbsp; A wizard is the archetype chessmaster villain with millennia-long planning horizons.&nbsp; No mortal sorcerer is even going to know that there's a wizard orchestrating world events to bring about his or her ultimate destruction.&nbsp; Assuming that anything with innate arcane ability survives more than a few hours after being born anyway.&nbsp; Cause, you know, every intelligent creature in the world already knows that such things need to be slain instantly, at risk of The Universe Itself being Utterly Destroyed.I mean, it's not like any of the all-powerful spellcasters that have been part of D&amp;D canon for the last 40 years have been sorcerers.&nbsp; Every uber-lich, demigod, or god-like spellcaster that is or was once a playable PC race is either a cleric (cause, you know, they have actual god(s) on their side) or a wizard.So, can we get back to how a Level 20 wizard might accomplish world domination, on the vain and unrealistic assumption we can even understand how such a person might think or behave?Cheers, Al'kelhar</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Al'Kelhar, post: 8164582, member: 7884"] Wouldn't any hyper-intelligent wizard have already organised the worldwide destruction of any and all sorcerers? Why is this even an issue? Theocrafting some abstract builds and plonking them in a pocket dimension looking oddly like a white-painted room to cast spells at each other is just mental masturbation. A wizard is the archetype chessmaster villain with millennia-long planning horizons. No mortal sorcerer is even going to know that there's a wizard orchestrating world events to bring about his or her ultimate destruction. Assuming that anything with innate arcane ability survives more than a few hours after being born anyway. Cause, you know, every intelligent creature in the world already knows that such things need to be slain instantly, at risk of The Universe Itself being Utterly Destroyed. I mean, it's not like any of the all-powerful spellcasters that have been part of D&D canon for the last 40 years have been sorcerers. Every uber-lich, demigod, or god-like spellcaster that is or was once a playable PC race is either a cleric (cause, you know, they have actual god(s) on their side) or a wizard. So, can we get back to how a Level 20 wizard might accomplish world domination, on the vain and unrealistic assumption we can even understand how such a person might think or behave? Cheers, Al'kelhar [/QUOTE]

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