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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lyxen" data-source="post: 8515916" data-attributes="member: 7032025">How has he been recognised as one ? Because he has a sword ? Because he knows how to fight ? Because he has armor ? How does this make him mandatorily a fighter ? He might be a multiclass, it's not tattooed on his forehead.Can a wizard cast a bard's spell ? Not all of them for sure. If there are other schools of teaching magic, there is no guarantee that a character should be able to cast all of them. It's not even the case for various PC classes.I don't think that any of the standard characters excect Gandalf could ever evolve into Sauron, they simply don't have the blood and the heritage. This is a common fantasy trope, there are inherent limits to what one can do or become.Actually no, there are areas of magic in which she is weak, and no proof that she could improve them, quite the contrary in fact.And therefore, there might be innate abilities related to spellcasting that allow a NPC to do things with spells that a PC could not. It's exactly the same thing/And a NPC might be born from a specific blood or a specifc omen that allows him to have innate abilities that a PC will never be able to duplicate.And it might not be a Time Stop, it might be a "Temporal Interrupt" that looks almost the same but with variations, granted because the NPC (and no PC) was born at a moment where time had stopped and is therefore granted special powers over time by the Lord of Time, and even if a PC could cast Time Stop, it would not be exactly the same.That is slightly different, in my example just above, if the PCs figure out the NPC back story, they might understand why he has powers over time that they will never be able to duplicate. What is interesting though, is that they still understand, and might also find weaknesses that they can exploit, etc.True, but it still does not mean that any wizard's feat might be duplicated by any other wizard. They have inherent strengths and weaknesses, and for example although some could learn to become Animagi, they could still transform into only specific animals. They could not all decide to transform into bears or powerful animals. And note that, from the PC perspective, it's a purely NPC ability.Honestly, it's not a very consistent magic system. Have a look at those developed by Brandon Sanderson, they are way more adaptable as they are designed with balance in mind (although it's novel-type balance and quite different from RPG-balance, at least there is some balance of some kind).</blockquote>

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