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What’s the difference between sorcerers, warlocks, and wizards?
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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9741878" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p>The big thing to me is the story elements.</p><p></p><p>Sorcerers are inborn natural magicians doing a few things but doing them with power and some natural bending to make those things go different ways. This works also conceptually as the same concept as monsters with inborn magic like dragons.</p><p></p><p>The wizards have always been the scientists, learning replicable actions, researching new ones, creating a vast library of specific effects, and needing to set up specific things in advance. Takes years of study, requires apprenticeship or actual college, but don't need to be born with it. Wizardry seems in world to be originally based off of studying sorcery and then expanding into a hundred new areas.</p><p></p><p>Warlocks are the different type of magic people, an out there different tradition of magic making pacts with beings. Sort of like clerics and druids but tapping a different (arcane not divine) power source. Very much a variant cleric caster.</p><p></p><p>I also noticed 24 did a bit of spell list tuning over 14, sorcerers can do things like cast earthquake now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 9741878, member: 2209"] The big thing to me is the story elements. Sorcerers are inborn natural magicians doing a few things but doing them with power and some natural bending to make those things go different ways. This works also conceptually as the same concept as monsters with inborn magic like dragons. The wizards have always been the scientists, learning replicable actions, researching new ones, creating a vast library of specific effects, and needing to set up specific things in advance. Takes years of study, requires apprenticeship or actual college, but don't need to be born with it. Wizardry seems in world to be originally based off of studying sorcery and then expanding into a hundred new areas. Warlocks are the different type of magic people, an out there different tradition of magic making pacts with beings. Sort of like clerics and druids but tapping a different (arcane not divine) power source. Very much a variant cleric caster. I also noticed 24 did a bit of spell list tuning over 14, sorcerers can do things like cast earthquake now. [/QUOTE]
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