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<blockquote data-quote="Joshua Randall" data-source="post: 9579111" data-attributes="member: 7737">Thayne wears &quot;supple russet doeskin&quot; and has the &quot;sinewy and hard&quot; arms of &quot;a fighter as well as a woodland sorcerer.&quot;According to this book's introduction, Thayne is a &quot;ranger-wizard&quot;. That is not a valid multi-class combination per the AD&amp;D PH (pp. 32-33). The closest valid combination is the classic Fighter/Magic-User, which as Gygax writes &quot;obviously&quot; combines excellent armor and weaponry with spells.Ranger is a subclass of fighter so we can accept that the first part of &quot;ranger-wizard&quot; could be shorthand for the first part of &quot;fighter/magic-user&quot;. Or, this could be a reference to Ranger the Level Title for a 9th level Ranger. (9th level generally being &quot;name level&quot; for most classes.)Wizard in AD&amp;D is not a character class but rather the Level Title for an 11th level Magic-User. (And Sorcerer, as in Thayne being a &quot;woodland sorcerer&quot;, is the Name Level Title at 9th level.)So Thayne as &quot;ranger-wizard&quot; is either a 9th level Ranger / 11th level Magic-User… or it's just flavorful writing and I should stop nit-picking it.Pfft! As if I will ever stop nit-picking.---Thayne studies us and states that &quot;half a decade has made you a man… but a pale one.&quot;This implies that we haven’t seen Thayne since the events of the first book, five (or six) years ago. Why not?I will also object that the passage of time has made Carr a man. He may be physically 22 years old, but he's still a child.---Thayne &quot;quaffs a long draught of black Kandian mead from his earthenware mug&quot;....That's an oddly specific detail to include. I wonder what it could mean? (cue mysterious music)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Joshua Randall, post: 9579111, member: 7737"] [B][I]Thayne wears "supple russet doeskin" and has the "sinewy and hard" arms of "a fighter as well as a woodland sorcerer."[/I][/B] According to this book's introduction, Thayne is a "ranger-wizard". That is not a valid multi-class combination per the AD&D PH (pp. 32-33). The closest valid combination is the classic Fighter/Magic-User, which as Gygax writes "obviously" combines excellent armor and weaponry with spells. Ranger is a subclass of fighter so we can accept that the first part of "ranger-wizard" could be shorthand for the first part of "fighter/magic-user". Or, this could be a reference to Ranger the Level Title for a 9th level Ranger. (9th level generally being "name level" for most classes.) Wizard in AD&D is not a character class but rather the Level Title for an 11th level Magic-User. (And Sorcerer, as in Thayne being a "woodland sorcerer", is the Name Level Title at 9th level.) So Thayne as "ranger-wizard" is either a 9th level Ranger / 11th level Magic-User… or it's just flavorful writing and I should stop nit-picking it. Pfft! As if I will ever stop nit-picking. --- [B][I]Thayne studies us and states that "half a decade has made you a man… but a pale one."[/I][/B] This implies that we haven’t seen Thayne since the events of the first book, five (or six) years ago. Why not? I will also object that the passage of time has made Carr a man. He may be physically 22 years old, but he's still a child. --- [B][I]Thayne "quaffs a long draught of black Kandian mead from his earthenware mug"....[/I][/B] That's an oddly specific detail to include. I wonder what it could mean? (cue mysterious music) [/QUOTE]

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