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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 5483245" data-attributes="member: 42582"><p>Ged in the Earthsea trilogy is pretty versatile and pretty powerful - illusions, mending, weather summoning, battle magic, shapechanging, healing, able to travel to the plane of death, etc.</p><p></p><p>That said, I think there could be a perfectly viable Earthsea RPG with both wizards and warriors. It just wouldn't use D&D mechanics.</p><p>Good observations. And I tend to agree that D&D is for a certain sort of gung ho fantasy, although items (other than enhancement bonuses, which are just part of the character build) don't yet loom that large in my 4e game.</p><p>In HeroWars/Quest you'd do this by having "fighters" load up on item descriptors while "wizards" load up on sorcerous descriptors.</p><p></p><p>In D&D you'd do it as you describe, and you'd have to get rid of anti-magic/disjunction as a routine magic-item purging device. And also be very wary of item-stealing events occurring.</p><p></p><p>Provided that they are items that the fighter applies <em>by way of being a fighter</em> (weapons, shields, boots of speed etc) then that's not a bug but a feature of the game being envisaged here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 5483245, member: 42582"] Ged in the Earthsea trilogy is pretty versatile and pretty powerful - illusions, mending, weather summoning, battle magic, shapechanging, healing, able to travel to the plane of death, etc. That said, I think there could be a perfectly viable Earthsea RPG with both wizards and warriors. It just wouldn't use D&D mechanics. Good observations. And I tend to agree that D&D is for a certain sort of gung ho fantasy, although items (other than enhancement bonuses, which are just part of the character build) don't yet loom that large in my 4e game. In HeroWars/Quest you'd do this by having "fighters" load up on item descriptors while "wizards" load up on sorcerous descriptors. In D&D you'd do it as you describe, and you'd have to get rid of anti-magic/disjunction as a routine magic-item purging device. And also be very wary of item-stealing events occurring. Provided that they are items that the fighter applies [I]by way of being a fighter[/I] (weapons, shields, boots of speed etc) then that's not a bug but a feature of the game being envisaged here. [/QUOTE]
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