Let's get something straight

[I'm A Banana]

....Witchcraft is the expression of a malign power in a person's body. Especially, what is labeled witchcraft is often seen as a consuming force. The witch eats the life power of the victim.
....Sorcery is the use of a magical craft or knowledge to harm or benefit others.


This insight brought to you by my 666 class: THE OCCULT EXPERIENCe.

.......I have yet to see a d20 class that represents magical power as being a malign force that consumes you and your victim. I think I have to go make one now....

 

[Crothian]

Aren't Witchcraft and Sorcery seperate RPG games??

 

[BiggusGeekus]

....Witchcraft is the expression of a malign power in a person's body. Especially, what is labeled witchcraft is often seen as a consuming force. The witch eats the life power of the victim.

There are about fifty million wiccans who are totally going to hex you, dude.

.......I have yet to see a d20 class that represents magical power as being a malign force that consumes you and your victim. I think I have to go make one now....

What about Unearthed Arcana? Tainted classes? Insanity? C'mon man!

 

[driver8]

....Witchcraft is the expression of a malign power in a person's body. Especially, what is labeled witchcraft is often seen as a consuming force. The witch eats the life power of the victim.
....Sorcery is the use of a magical craft or knowledge to harm or benefit others.


This insight brought to you by my 666 class: THE OCCULT EXPERIENCe.

.......I have yet to see a d20 class that represents magical power as being a malign force that consumes you and your victim. I think I have to go make one now....

Doesnt the Conan RPG portray sorcery as a dark, taxing, and consuming power? Just asking..Ive never really played it.

 

[Olive]

.......I have yet to see a d20 class that represents magical power as being a malign force that consumes you and your victim. I think I have to go make one now....

The OA taint spellcasting class does this. Can't remember the name.

 

[ThirdWizard]

One word: Defilers.

 

[I'm A Banana]

Odly, by these definitions, wizards and sorcerers are both sorcerers, but psionicists are arguably witches.

 

[Ds Da Man]

WFRP! Use it, you could lose it!

 

[gizmo33]

....Witchcraft is the expression of a malign power in a person's body. Especially, what is labeled witchcraft is often seen as a consuming force. The witch eats the life power of the victim.
....Sorcery is the use of a magical craft or knowledge to harm or benefit others.

Yea, what Geekus said. Given the number of folks who self-apply the label of witch, and probably read these boards, I guess it won't be long before we find out the truth of your definitions. Let us know Kamikaze Midget (appropriately named), and thanks for submitting yourself to experimentation in the name of roleplaying. A detailed description of how it feels to have your life power consumed would help us all with our roleplaying. Thanks for taking one for the team!

One could argue that your definitions of witch and sorcerer and not universal, but I suspect I'd understand better if I understood this:

This insight brought to you by my 666 class: THE OCCULT EXPERIENCe.

Are there 666 character classes in your game? What did you mean?

.......I have yet to see a d20 class that represents magical power as being a malign force that consumes you and your victim. I think I have to go make one now....

Who would play that class!? Have you seen the threads on which feat is the best? There are people out there that don't even want to pay an XP cost to create magic items. Who in the world would want their Tenser's Floating Disc to consume them?

 

[der_kluge]

Well, I'm not sure I agree with your definitions, but I do agree that I can't recall a class resembling a malign force as a force within the caster. That's an interesting concept.

And no, I'm not sure Defiler (Dark Sun) is it, since they pull magic from an external force, and drain the land.

The closest might be something from Blight Magic.