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<blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 8199750" data-attributes="member: 52734">We do have some archtypes that we can hang on for fighter/wizards.D&amp;D has forever referenced itself with the elf fighter/wizard and the githyanki gish.&nbsp; Both strongly tie to the &quot;Swordmage&quot; with a sword in one hand, dressed in armor as they toss magic missiles or fireballs from the other.&nbsp; They use overt combat attack (and defense) and martial skill - magic with heavy leaning on the martial side.&nbsp; This self reference is HUGE in of itself, and enough to base the entire class simply on this.Gandalf, at times could be seen as a fighter/wizard, leaning heavily on the wizard side of the equation with Glamdring in hand.Jedi are clearly fighter/wizards and Star Wars has as much fantasy slant as it does sci-fi.&nbsp; It would be easy enough to incorporate the &quot;warrior monk&quot; nature of Jedi into D&amp;D without blinking an eye.Many of the Hong Kong wuxia films have fighter/wizards aplenty, though their magical skills are often more subdued or &quot;personal enhancement&quot; effects.There doesn't need to be one unifying vision of what a fighter/mage mix needs to be - you need enough of a skeleton to hang a frame on it, and then let the subclasses do the major lifting.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Stormonu, post: 8199750, member: 52734"] We do have some archtypes that we can hang on for fighter/wizards. D&D has forever referenced itself with the elf fighter/wizard and the githyanki gish. Both strongly tie to the "Swordmage" with a sword in one hand, dressed in armor as they toss magic missiles or fireballs from the other. They use overt combat attack (and defense) and martial skill - magic with heavy leaning on the martial side. This self reference is HUGE in of itself, and enough to base the entire class simply on this. Gandalf, at times could be seen as a fighter/wizard, leaning heavily on the wizard side of the equation with Glamdring in hand. Jedi are clearly fighter/wizards and Star Wars has as much fantasy slant as it does sci-fi. It would be easy enough to incorporate the "warrior monk" nature of Jedi into D&D without blinking an eye. Many of the Hong Kong wuxia films have fighter/wizards aplenty, though their magical skills are often more subdued or "personal enhancement" effects. There doesn't need to be one unifying vision of what a fighter/mage mix needs to be - you need enough of a skeleton to hang a frame on it, and then let the subclasses do the major lifting. [/QUOTE]

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