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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rounser" data-source="post: 3746076" data-attributes="member: 1106">Never liked "paladin".  Code for "holy knight", as we all know, but see below.Magic-user was nice and non-gender-specific, but most of the magic-user terms aren't.  Pity it's even more dry and unfantastic than "fighter" is, so had to get changed when they were shaking things up with 2E.  It's like actor versus actress.  Wizard leaves no doubt what the class represents, even if it is gender specific, so it is a good name.  Witch, the flip gender version of either wizard or warlock (depending on who you ask), can be considered offensive, so it's never mentioned.Another stupid class name, code for "priest".  "Priest" is at least intelligible, even if it throws up problems of what the heck hero archetype is a priest, anyway?  That's probably why Gygax used "cleric", because like "paladin" it's a dusty term with not much meaning any more, ripe for redefinition.  Not so "warlord".  There's warlords in the world today.Cypher for "thief".  Rogue may be inappropriate, but less so than thief.  Conan and the Grey Mouser, with their archetypal examples of thief abilities, are much better described by the term "rogue" with perfect accuracy than they are by "thief"."Mystic" is an alternative, but again not a good one.  "Martial Artist" just sounds too modern.  Jury's still out on this one.Tolkien.I was under the impression that the druids were definitely religious (pagans had gods you know), but there's a lot of overlap between magic and worship.  The clear line delineated between divine and arcane magic is a D&Dism.  Consider Conan's nemesis whose name escapes me at the moment, the one with all the snakes and temple and magic and stuff.  Xandar Thrull?  Something like that.Not feeling it at all.  Has me reconsidering the judgement of the designers.  I think they need to go back to the thesaurus.</blockquote>

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