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<blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 5796369" data-attributes="member: 9037">I am a huge fantasy fan have been since I read my first fantasy in 1976 which was the Narnia books. I did not read Tolkein until after the movies came out. I didn't go into DnD thinking Gandalf was the prime example of a wizard. As much as I was a huge Arthurian fan I never saw Merlin as the DnD style wizard either mainly because the other classes really didn't mirror any of the people in the Arthurian legend very well.&nbsp; I had read Vance and was oh yeah.My son who was born in 1978 grew up on Dragonlance and David Eddings , Raymond Feist not Tolkein and he has never though that the wizards of DnD should mirror Gandalf. Right now I am reading Jim Butcher's Codex Alera and the powerful furycrafters can fly , and throw fireballs, command powerful earth elementals. To say that DnD wizards don't mirror most fantasy wizards because they don't look like Gandalf or Merlin is simply not true.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Elf Witch, post: 5796369, member: 9037"] I am a huge fantasy fan have been since I read my first fantasy in 1976 which was the Narnia books. I did not read Tolkein until after the movies came out. I didn't go into DnD thinking Gandalf was the prime example of a wizard. As much as I was a huge Arthurian fan I never saw Merlin as the DnD style wizard either mainly because the other classes really didn't mirror any of the people in the Arthurian legend very well. I had read Vance and was oh yeah. My son who was born in 1978 grew up on Dragonlance and David Eddings , Raymond Feist not Tolkein and he has never though that the wizards of DnD should mirror Gandalf. Right now I am reading Jim Butcher's Codex Alera and the powerful furycrafters can fly , and throw fireballs, command powerful earth elementals. To say that DnD wizards don't mirror most fantasy wizards because they don't look like Gandalf or Merlin is simply not true. [/QUOTE]

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