Proper Roleplay of Magic

[dragonfire9000]

I am totally rolling up "Blackstaff"'s neighbor when I get back this weekend. Heck. Yes. Anyways, thank you for discussing this so thoroughly. I now definitely have my answer, and a good deal of humor to boot.

Basically: Hick from the sticks is awed by Daze.

Normal adventurer is a bit more cynical, but gets shocked when you take out the sixth-circle stuff.

Beware wizards, as they are a tricky bunch and will cast summon I for three quests and then go all PhK on yo punk ass.

Da?

[Sternhund]

My two cents.

Cars are amazing! Just walk around. It sucks to walk, right? But cars man. They're amazing! Like... MAGIC! But I live in a big city, so... cars are everywhere. In fact, anyone can get a car. Rich people have cars. Stupid people have cars too. Well, cars are still cool, but I don't have an epiphany every time I see a car. So... cars are like magic.

I'm tired and goofy, but I hope you understand my point!

[Thomas_Not_very_wise]

Wut about Clerical Magic?

[dragonfire9000]

Say, another question that vaguely fits the bill of my original post:

How does a mage properly role-play his abilities? Is it a question of individuality, or is there a set method? For example, most wizards chant and wave their arms about, resulting in a flaming circle of death or some such. Sorcerors, on the other hand, will play it out as an X-menlike flick of the wrist, and there's fire, ice, or what have you in their hand. My current character likes to walk around with an icy mist surrounding his left hand, concentrated around his ring finger.

So, concensus?

[Zip]

http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/prestidigitation.htm

[Goblin Butcher]

Say, another question that vaguely fits the bill of my original post:

How does a mage properly role-play his abilities? Is it a question of individuality, or is there a set method? For example, most wizards chant and wave their arms about, resulting in a flaming circle of death or some such. Sorcerors, on the other hand, will play it out as an X-menlike flick of the wrist, and there's fire, ice, or what have you in their hand. My current character likes to walk around with an icy mist surrounding his left hand, concentrated around his ring finger.

So, concensus?

Both cast spells in the exact same wavey, wordy fashion, since the way you move your hands and the words you speak are components of the spell itself, not something unique!

[kanrath]

Butcher is right, no mage, less they have the feats still spell or innate still spell tiers 1-9 can cast spells without motion in NwN unless they are , as byBlackstaff, Blackcloak, Elminister or so on. Though I guess some fudging the rules might be allowed, after all sorcerers are able to learn by immitation in only minutes or hours. While on the other hand  wizards are supposed to learn by days of study from scrolls and books. So the fact meming a scroll takes seconds while sorcerers have to wait till next lvl for more spells is sort of messed up.

[AClockworkMelon]

sorcerers are able to learn by immitation in only minutes or hours. While on the other hand  wizards are supposed to learn by days of study from scrolls and books.

Wizards require years of study and training to become what they are, but they don't take days to learn a spell when they have access to a spell book or scroll.

So the fact meming a scroll takes seconds while sorcerers have to wait till next lvl for more spells is sort of messed up.

Wizards can read a scroll like reading a blueprint and know what's required to cast the spell. Sorcerers don't work that way, having to wait for their bodies and minds to become able to use the magic on its own.

[kanrath]

Yea they can in nwn, but in 3.0 and 3.5 it requires one day of study and a spellcraft check of dc 15+ spell lvl with +2 to the roll results for school specialty. And when I say days I mean in the way if a wizard gets 4 new scrolls and as long as he makes the checks he can learn them all in 1-2 minutes


Enough on learning from scrolls.


You know what would be cool for wizards, if for each shool specilization, there was a seperate list of spells,though that would take numerous custom spells