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Magic-Using Classes/Professions

Started by One Horse Town, September 09, 2013, 08:26:13 AM

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Added all suggestions so far and added a pile of my own.

Keep 'em coming if you got 'em.

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Quote from: One Horse Town;689870Added all suggestions so far and added a pile of my own.

Keep 'em coming if you got 'em.
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? Beholder mage - a beholder with some eyestalks replaced with 'spell stalks' to cast arcane spells.
Immortal magic - as used by the gods
Alienist - a wizard who deals with Lovecraftian entities/the Far Realm for power.
Ice mage
Cryptomancer - divination with words, secret signs, wards, runes

Shifter - magician specializing in changing their shape.

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Palmist/Palmreader: a diviner that focuses on getting the knowledge of past/present/future and advising of a present individual.

Gypsy: specialist in a variety of minor folk magic, especially curses and love potions.

Cosmic Mage: a specialist in Far Realm magic; spells tend to be weirdly horrific, and such mages are often insane.
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There are the D&D specialists you missed out


Alterationist - or Transmuter one specialising int eh modifiation and alteration of matter
Evocationist - one dealing with raw magical energy in various forms including pure "magical force" but also common energy forms (fire, Sound, lightning etc)
Abjurationist - one dealing with specialist protective magics


then you have

Augurer - thouse that predict the future through signs birds in flight, clouds, animal intestines etc
Cartomancer - someone that predicts the future through cards
Charmer  - variant of Enchanter (unless an enchanter is one that imbues mundane items with magical powers)
Clairvoyant - Some one that can see distant places (aka remote viewing)
Fortune-teller - someone that predicts the future of people (see also palmist, astrology, cartomancer)
Medium - Someoen that can connect to the spiritworld and commune with the dead
Occultist - someone who has studied the occult and has developed powers as a result perhaps
Palmist - someone that reads fortunes through examining the hand
Prestidigitators - those specialing in sleight of hand and small scale magics
Soothsayer - someone that predicts the future
Thaumaturge - from the Greek some one that perfomrs miracles, usually taken as a variant on Alterationist

Do you want Oriental ones (wu,shzhu,Onmyō, etc) Indian (yogis, gurus, etc) Arabic (marabouts, dervishes, sufis) or New Age ones (crystal healers, Theosophy, gnostics) what about Phrophets, saints, kabalists or numerologists

there are a lot of these guys ....
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One Horse Town

I've added 14 more of my own.

I'll edit in some more of the replies later.

One Horse Town

Fully updated.

Now we've got 118 entries!

Let's keep them coming.

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Quote from: jibbajibba;689970Do you want Oriental ones (wu,shzhu,Onmyō, etc) Indian (yogis, gurus, etc) Arabic (marabouts, dervishes, sufis) or New Age ones (crystal healers, Theosophy, gnostics) what about Phrophets, saints, kabalists or numerologists

there are a lot of these guys ....

We can start having other cultures' equivalents once we've got the western stuff out of the way.


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Quote from: BedrockBrendan;690021Cool list. Do you have anything for Mystic yet?

D'oh.

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Nega-mage: character with an innate immunity to magic

Physical adept: specialist in body-enhancing spells.

Sha'ir - spellcaster who uses genies to retrieve spells

Void Disciple - magic relating to nothingness or void (the 'fifth element')

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Added, although i've changed Nega-Mage to Null-Mage.

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Cheers!

I've added 7 more to the list.

I think we've still got some to come.

Edit: List now has 133 entries.

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