Name for a prestige class just popped into my head.

[RangerWickett]

Who here would like to play a Kleptomancer? The word just popped into my head while reading Onna Daigaku, in which Japanese women were berated as being naturally inclined to all kinds of vices, including "kleptomaniacy."

 

[Drawmack]

could be a new school of magic with spells like

pick pockets, disguise item, hide item

 

[drnuncheon]

Since the '-mancy' suffix technically denotes a method of divination, I would love to see a kleptomancer be someone who can foretell future events based on the contents of someone else's pocket.

J

 

[333 Dave]

Since the '-mancy' suffix technically denotes a method of divination, I would love to see a kleptomancer be someone who can foretell future events based on the contents of someone else's pocket.

Since when? Necromancy, Pyromancy, Chronomancy, Cybermancy, Cryomancy, need I say more?

 

[maddman75]

Actually, this is correct. Necromancy was magic that fortold the future by speaking with the dead, pyromancy could look for signs in ashes.

But to the topic at hand, yeah kleptomancer is hella-cool. Either a wizard/rogue type or a mage that specializes in stealing magic from the minds of other wizards.

 

[Anti-Sean]

Sounds like a nice replacement for the rather generic 'Arcane Trickster' name...or perhaps a guild of said Tricksters...

 

[drnuncheon]

Since when? Necromancy, Pyromancy, Chronomancy, Cybermancy, Cryomancy, need I say more?

Divination by speaking with the spirits of the dead, divination by firegazing, and three words created by people who didn't know what '-mancy' really meant.



J

 

[Desdichado]

But to the topic at hand, yeah kleptomancer is hella-cool. Either a wizard/rogue type or a mage that specializes in stealing magic from the minds of other wizards.

Nothing like a good Mr. T reference to brighten anyone's day!

 

[333 Dave]

Bah, I was just pointing out that as far as the gaming world is concerned, divination is divination, -mancy has nothing to do with it. I guess my point is lost in people who seem to think they know more than me

 

[Simplicity]

In that case, I'm a Chronomancer, since it's not very hard to
see the future in the future.