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<blockquote data-quote="Steven K" data-source="post: 8537096" data-attributes="member: 7034837">As for literary examples, I'm pretty sure there were swordmages in the Wheel of Time series, and of course at the extreme end of the scale there's Gandalf. More important to your son's generation, anime like Naruto and Bleach just accept the idea of magically empowered martials as a given. In Naruto, the main characters start off as a girl who starts off with 'weak' physical skills but very high Int, a boy who has high skill all round and can create elemental fire ranged attacks, and Naruto, who is a dumbass but knows a single highly advanced technique (shadow clones), plus their teacher who has elemental damage attacks, summoning, illusion magic, plus all the normal 'ninja' stuff the kids can do as well like short range 'teleporting', casting disguise self at will, and having a high stealth score. Yet the world is very much a martial, hand to hand or weapon attack predominant setting.As for Bleach, the main character is a pure fighter with a single ranged energy slash option which he can spam if he wants to, but everyone else who matters is a samurai who can switch to magical spells at will by chanting a few phrases of nonsense poetry. In Avatar: the last Airbender martial arts are equated with the control elements cantrips of D&amp;D. That's just how the setting works. Each style resonates with a different element, so they can use them in their attacks.I could go on, but I think the point is made.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Steven K, post: 8537096, member: 7034837"] As for literary examples, I'm pretty sure there were swordmages in the Wheel of Time series, and of course at the extreme end of the scale there's Gandalf. More important to your son's generation, anime like Naruto and Bleach just accept the idea of magically empowered martials as a given. In Naruto, the main characters start off as a girl who starts off with 'weak' physical skills but very high Int, a boy who has high skill all round and can create elemental fire ranged attacks, and Naruto, who is a dumbass but knows a single highly advanced technique (shadow clones), plus their teacher who has elemental damage attacks, summoning, illusion magic, plus all the normal 'ninja' stuff the kids can do as well like short range 'teleporting', casting disguise self at will, and having a high stealth score. Yet the world is very much a martial, hand to hand or weapon attack predominant setting. As for Bleach, the main character is a pure fighter with a single ranged energy slash option which he can spam if he wants to, but everyone else who matters is a samurai who can switch to magical spells at will by chanting a few phrases of nonsense poetry. In Avatar: the last Airbender martial arts are equated with the control elements cantrips of D&D. That's just how the setting works. Each style resonates with a different element, so they can use them in their attacks. I could go on, but I think the point is made. [/QUOTE]

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