https://www.dandwiki.com/w/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=155.42.194.12&feedformat=atomD&D Wiki - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T08:37:06ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.35.8https://www.dandwiki.com/w/index.php?title=SRD_Talk:Wizard&diff=220628SRD Talk:Wizard2008-02-02T15:30:09Z<p>155.42.194.12: New section: Correction</p>
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<div>== Wording ==<br />
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Why are all the third person forms in the feminine? This is most unorthodox.[[User:Indikun Zeo|Indikun Zeo]] 00:47, 12 July 2007 (MDT)<br />
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:Nah, it's a recent trend in the gaming industry. Somebody thought using she instead of he sometimes would lure more women into the hobby. Actually, handing out free soap (and a shower how-to) with every PHB would help more, as would be a short FAQ on what kind of remarks drive women from the table. ("You game? But you're fe.. fe.. fe.. female!") What's even worse, a sizable part of the demographic doesn't even *want* more women in the hobby. This seems especially bad with D&D, other games like Vampire never seemed to have that problem. --[[User:Mkill|Mkill]] 02:10, 12 July 2007 (MDT)<br />
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::Can we change it? Women don't need this, and it only makes us look stupid. [[User:Indikun Zeo|Indikun Zeo]] 17:05, 12 July 2007 (MDT)<br />
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:::Short answer: No. --[[User:Mkill|Mkill]] 05:50, 13 July 2007 (MDT)<br />
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::::I don't know about trying to lure women to play, but I do know that the genders used in all the base classes correspond with the genders of D&D's primary iconic character for each class: Krusk, Gimble, Jozan, Regdar, Soveliss, and Hennet are male, and respectively the classes [[barbarian]], [[bard]], [[cleric]], [[fighter]], [[ranger]], and [[sorcerer]] use masculine pronouns. Vadania, Ember, Alhandra, Lidda, and Mialee are female, and so predicably the classes [[druid]], [[monk]], [[paladin]], [[rogue]], and [[wizard]] use feminine pronouns.<br />
::::Among the splatbooks, those classes that have sample characters use the pronouns that correspond to the gender of the sample character. —[[User:Sledged|Sledged]] ([[User talk:Sledged|talk]]) 09:41, 13 July 2007 (MDT)<br />
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:::::Whoa, what's a splatbook? What's an "iconic character?" And what's happened to this game? Suppose that's what I get for not playing for almost twenty years. Hope you don't mind educating me.[[User:Indikun Zeo|Indikun Zeo]] 00:47, 14 July 2007 (MDT)<br />
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::::::splatbook: Any book that's not a core book and that mainly consists of new classes, feats and other stuff to power up your character. Don't ask me what the etymology is.<br />
::::::iconic character: For every character class the designers introduced an example character, and there's even novels about them.<br />
::::::What happened to the game: ... A lot? --[[User:Mkill|Mkill]] 00:53, 14 July 2007 (MDT)<br />
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:::::::Some play on '''s'''up'''pl'''emen'''t''', I'd guess. That's what these used to be called.[[User:Indikun Zeo|Indikun Zeo]] 01:21, 16 August 2007 (MDT)<br />
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::::::::They're still called that, too. Having not played in almost twenty years, you're fortunate that you missed most of the years when TSR was being run a woman who, according to Gygax, held gamers in contempt, and considered them socially beneath her. During that time the market was flooded with D&D products, a number of times producing more than sixty products in a given year (not including novels). This may not be from where the term "splatbook" came, or even when it was first applied to D&D supplements, but there was never a better time when the term applied. —[[User:Sledged|Sledged]] ([[User talk:Sledged|talk]]) 11:05, 16 August 2007 (MDT)<br />
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== Wizards ==<br />
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:''Discussion moved to [[Talk:J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (DnD Campaign Setting)#LotR and the SRD Wizard?]]&nbsp;<small>It pertains to LotR, not the SRD wizard&nbsp;--[[User:Green Dragon|Green Dragon]] 13:37, 24 December 2007 (MST)</small>''<br />
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== Correction ==<br />
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Text says:<br />
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"The wizard must choose whether to specialize and, if she does so, choose her specialty at 1st level. At this time, she must also give up two other schools of magic (unless she chooses to specialize in divination; see below), which become her prohibited schools. <br />
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A wizard can never give up '''divination''' to fulfill this requirement."<br />
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Text should say:<br />
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The wizard must choose whether to specialize and, if she does so, choose her specialty at 1st level. At this time, she must also give up two other schools of magic (unless she chooses to specialize in divination; see below), which become her prohibited schools. <br />
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A wizard can never give up '''universal''' to fulfill this requirement.</div>155.42.194.12