So anyone can pick up a sword but not anyone can use magic?That isn't fair at allIf you can use magic, you should be chronically and permanently feeble and every time you pick up a martial weapon you feel nauseous. If you try to wear armor you sweat like crazy and stinks and it feels like a thousand needles touching your skin
>>98036724Anyone can learn magic, as wizards do, by studying. Not everyone can be a Druid, Warlock, Sorcerer, though. Warlock less so, but the patrons can decide not to empower someone, I guess. There are weapon and armor proficiency restrictions put on casters, also. The difference in levels of training are meant to manifest in the martial character's various other abilities, bonus attacks, etc. They're just kinda lame. Wizard can pick up a sword, but he can't do fancy maneuvers like some Fighters. Fighter can use a wand or scroll, but only certain subclasses actually have the option to learn spells.
>>98036724>So anyone can pick up a sword but not anyone can use magic?anyone can pick up a wand, but only a few people can become masters of wizardyanyone can pick up a sword, but few of them will become dragon slaying legendary warriorsalso, this is only tangentially related to /tg/
>>98036724>So anyone can pick up a sword but not anyone can use magic?>That isn't fair at allToo bad, life’s not fair. Get used to it, frog boy.
>>98036724The unfair thing is that frogs taste like chickens but people still eat more chickens than frogs
The Harrison Bergeron approach never works. Making martials and mages "equal" inevitably only makes them unequal, due to the inherent simplicity of just beating shit to death. They're not supposed to be equal, they're supposed to be solutions to different problems, or in a functional yet still flawed system, different solutions to the same problems.
>>98036724Magic is rare and hard to learn, so it's naturally gatekept. There's also a genetic component, presumably. So magic is probably quite rare. Most importantly, only fucking nerds become wizards. Do you know how many fantasy protagonists are wizards? Basically none.
>>98036860Harry Potter and his friendsRincewindThe chode from Name of the WindGedHarry DresdenPugI'd also throw Rand al'Thor in there, though he's more a sorcerer/fighter hybrid.
>>98036860Eh, Wizards got Harry Potter and Ged/Sparrowhawk from Earthsea, and Solomon from The Bible.Druids have a lot of also-ran entries, but also mythical giants like Mog Ruith.Bards have stronger traditions as authors than protagonists, so they are meta, Taliesin The Bard was said to have fought at the battle of Catreath.Paladins belong to a particular era of French high medieval literature."Rangers" are the mighty woodsmen of folktales.Clerics/Priests are represented best in historical fiction, and in shit like murder mysteries and modern dramas, but not in the "calling down powers from heaven" sense usually; in a fantasy roleplaying archetype sense, they are under represented as protagonists, but that's because their cultural role overshadows it; a priest is a community leader or a helpful side-character, or a horrible villain wearing a cloak of authority, if they aren't moonlighting as a detective solving a murder on a train.
>>98036724Anyone can use magic. Anyone IRL can learn differential equations.How many do?>if it were usefulDifferential equations let you win a fight once a day. World bending power requires being Einstein or Archimedes.
>>98036724Traditional games?
>>98036833No.
>>98037330Yes.
>>98036724Not sure it's anyone. People might need at least something like one functioning hand, foot, tentacle, prehensile tail, mouth, pair of mandibles, waldo, pseudopod, or tele- or psychokinetic power, and access to a sword that was in range and generally unrestrained permitting it to be picked up by one of the afr mentioned methods. It's far more complicated than you're implying. Then there's actually using that sword well as a weapon. That's usually much trickier than just picking up a sword but for some reason you left that bit off.
>>98036724>So anyone can pick up a sword but not anyone can use magic?what system?
>>98036996>Harry Potter and his friendsThey are all sorcerers
>>98036724>So anyone can pick up a sword but not anyone can use magic?In most systems where this happens, magic is considered a malevolent manifestation of dark forces, and wizard are feared and persecuted by normal people. In others, there are magic in everything and anyone can learn how to use it if he spends enough time. And of course there are stupid shit writen by woman like Harry Potter where wizards are born to be epic chads and muggles are stupid clueles chunguses or something.
>>98036724Anyone can learn magic, but most people never go further than a few useful cantrips for their daily life. You know, hygiene, contraception, mending wear and tear, flavoring mediocre dishes.
Hey baby, I'd sure like to bury myself up to the hilt in you.Hey baby, are you sure you're a Frost Brand, because you're way too hot for that.Hey baby, you look like you're about 58 - 62 on the Rockwell Hardness C Scale. Come back to my place and let's see how hard I get rocking you well.Hey baby, you might be a Flame Tongue but wait till you find out how hot my tongue makes you.Hey baby, stop hanging around with that short sword of quickness, I'm bigger and I'll take it slow.Hey baby, you look like you've had a hard day. Been beaten and drawn over hot coals? Come back to my place, I'll oil you up, wipe you down, practice my sword strokes and then I'll quench your desire.Hey baby, my gladius was made for your vagina.You plebs do appreciate the etymology of vagina.Hey baby, forget about the sword in the stone, I've got two big stones for you right here.Hey baby, you must be a sword of wounding because my heart would bleed to see you leave here with anyone but me tonight.How to pick up a sword 101, baby. Shagadelic.
>>98036724>That isn't fair at allSo?
>>98036769I feel like Sorcerers would be the rarest spellcaster over Warlocks. You can find ways to make pacts with Eldritch gods, but your bloodline has to be carefully cultivated.
>>98037551They have innate magical ability but 95% of the magic they use has been learned during their studies at Hogwarts. For what it's worth, they're also called wizards in-universe.
>>98036787Tell me more about the culinary merits of amphibians please.
>>98036724Anyone can pick up a component pouch, pull something out, waggle their fingers, and say a few misheard syllables. The result is akin to what happens if you pick up a sword without knowing how to use it properly: either you embarrass yourself or you hurt yourself.
>>98038125Yeah but it's not like they really learn the theory of magic, they practice it. Sorcerers don't gain all of their spells immediately too.
>>98038172They're children, anon. Presumably you were practicing algebra in primary school and not learning the theory behind it. And sorcerers do have to learn spells, but for them it's more learning how to manipulate their existing power in new ways. Harry Potter is learning spells by rote practice, as there is a prescribed somatic and verbal component of each spell in the setting that anyone who has the ability to cast magic can do. That's wizard shit.
>>98036724>If you can use magic, you should be chronically and permanently feeble and every time you pick up a martial weapon you feel nauseous. If you try to wear armor you sweat like crazy and stinks and it feels like a thousand needles touching your skin>Fighters need magic to be a mundane fighter cope
