Roleplaying a wizard

[Quickleaf]

How do you role-play a wizard in a unique way?
I'm trying to create a character with a different perspective on the world, a character who truly feels magical in their personality/attitude alone.
One idea I have is that the wizard's mind is full of symbolism. Whenever someone mentions a word (e.g. "West"), the wizard hears both the normal meaning (cardinal direction) and a symbolic meaning (death, grief, watery nature of life, feelings, dreams, etc). Thus the wizard might always talk in symbolism. Any ideas?

 

[Jdvn1]

Hm, like a Diviner? Looking for meaning in all things? High Wis, probably.

I like non-standard Wizards -- I could play the bookworm type, but the game seems to call for an adventuring-see-the-world type of character. I don't take a lot of knowledges, but maybe some Survival or Use Rope instead. Kind of like a Swashbuckler Wizard.

 

[Harmon]

Presently my favorite character is a wizard. He is very smart- analytical and book wise. When he started he had no “real world” experience beyond a completely &*%)ed up childhood (town drunk father and town whore mother) and the books he studied to have his magical abilities.

He loves magic the way some people love cars, or sports, he talks about magic with everyone, debates and informs (none magic users would have a good excuse to buy Kwn Arcane or Spellcraft).

As far as being a symbolist, I think that it would almost make him (your character) look a little nuts (crazy, I mean).

Good luck with it, and I hope you can pull it off it sounds very interesting and way cool.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

In the end I role-play uniquely a wizard the same way I do for any other character: I try and come up with a concept, a reason for him or her to to see the world in a particular way and to stick with it. My current wizard, with a couple of levels of rogue started out as a street kid. He was taken in by a wizard who taught him. The result is a character who has a strong loyalty to people whom he feels respect him and care about him, but he has power and will use it to be sure he never has to want for things like he did when he was living on the streets. Basically he is a bit of a punk, a bit too smart for his own good and who is really loyal to his "gang," the party.

 

[JoeBlank]

I'm currently playing a gnome sorcerer who uses magic for everything possible. It is not that he is lazy, just that magic is a part of his being, not just a tool he uses. For instance, he is regarded as an excellent cook, but actually has very little skill in the area. Instead, he has a cantrip (Enchanting Flavor, I think from Joe's Book of Enchantment) that makes food taste better.

From level 4 to level 11, I can count on one hand the number of times he has used a weapon, as he prefers to use spells for everything. When the party was faced with anti-magic zones, he almost refused to go. Even then, he held his familiar tight and ran thru. He couldn't stand to have such a significant part of his being suppressed.

 

[Michael Dean]

Your suggestion sounds like what I think a far eastern wizard would be like. Always using a lot of confucian-type sayings in his speech; looking for the sub-text of everything being said around him/her.

 

[punkorange]

I really like the idea of a wizard who talkes about magic like a car, or sports. I would relate to him how I talk about what little programming I know to people. I love programming, thats what im going to school for and it excites me. You would think that there would be more wizards who talk about their latest spells the same way college programming students talk about their latest software, but thats a fairly unique concept in my experience.

 

[Sir ThornCrest]

several ideas

1) The Braggart, a showoff exebitionist look at how great I am. Now this guy can be fun interacting with the party, teasing hazing etc. Make him charismatic handsome lifes just great kinda guy.

2) The soon to be Arcane Trickster. A city rat rogue that got taken in by town wizard and trained....you tried to rip him off maybe`...he noticed potential in you and walla. You still have the pilfering in your blood.

3)Hell bent on revenge a serious minded if not angry wizard who sole reason for learning magic is to blow the crap out of his enemies, probably a evocation specailist. Do to some childhood event this guy is definately blood thirsty vs....?

Thorncrest

 

[Driddle]

go tantric