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« Reply #15 on Oct 27, 2011, 10:47pm » | |
Fighting Mage (hyphenate to taste)
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« Reply #16 on Oct 28, 2011, 7:46am » | |
Warlock or Sorcerer both sound pretty cool.
Wizard sounds 100% magic. Funny how we take words that are similar in the English language and assign different mental images to them. Wizardry sound good but sorcery sounds evil to me. I always thought of a Warlock as a male witch.
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« Reply #17 on Oct 28, 2011, 8:34am » | |
What about "Warrior-Mage", taken from Rolemaster Companion II. 
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« Reply #18 on Oct 28, 2011, 8:54am » | |
Oct 27, 2011, 5:51pm, thorswulf wrote:| blademage or mage of the blade? |
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I'll second Blademage; that sounds cool to me.
Or you could just do a reworked version of the d20 Blackmoor Arcane Warrior
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« Reply #19 on Oct 28, 2011, 10:15am » | |
I'd call it Flamelord.
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« Reply #20 on Oct 28, 2011, 3:20pm » | |
Using terms that others have mentioned;
War Wizard (I use it in a BECMI/AD&D 2nd mash-up of rules)
Or, if you want to make the class available only to those that can "make it" thru the training (i.e. whose stats qualify them for the class) and you want to make it a singular order:
Mage Knights of the order of Spellswords
Or something along those lines...
Just my two cents!
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« Reply #21 on Oct 28, 2011, 7:17pm » | |
Oct 27, 2011, 4:58pm, waysoftheearth wrote:As already suggested by DoctorX, I use Warlock too.
It seems appropriate to me as War means all out fighting, and is also is the beginning of "warrior", but everyone knows a warlock is a magic-user. |
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Warlock is the term I use in my AS&SH RPG. In my system, it is a fighter subclass with some spell use (up to L3 spells), and medium weight armor limit; also, the XP progression is slow.
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« Reply #22 on Oct 28, 2011, 8:11pm » | |
Eldritch knights.
Arcane warriors
Theurgist swordsmen.
Swashbucking seers.
Honestly, the class name should be descriptive and banal. Fighting magic-users. Level titles as above.
Level 1: arcane veteran
Level 2: arcane warrior
Level 3: theurgist swordsman
Level 4: swashbucking seer
Level 9: elderitch knight
3e explosion of classes like "shadow blade" sound a mite uppity when you're talking about some guy with 4 hp and a thac0 of 20. I mean a 1+1hd veteran does go around calling himself demon hunter or dragonslayer or giant killer.
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« Reply #23 on Oct 28, 2011, 9:54pm » | |
I like Eldritch knights, I would not use warlock since it reeks of real world occult.
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« Reply #24 on Oct 28, 2011, 10:46pm » | |
For everyone's information neo pagans and Wiccans do NOT like the term warlock. It means "oath breaker" and is not used lightly. So you are right TPD, it is an occult term, and it has very negative conotations.
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« Reply #25 on Oct 29, 2011, 8:30am » | |
Oct 28, 2011, 10:46pm, thorswulf wrote:| For everyone's information neo pagans and Wiccans do NOT like the term warlock. It means "oath breaker" and is not used lightly. So you are right TPD, it is an occult term, and it has very negative conotations. |
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Yeah, I guess its a perception thing but Warlock to me conjures up an image of some barefoot balding guy in robes. The "male witch" meaning holds no association or imagry to a sword weilding warrior in my mind. I mean the "war" part of the name doesn't smack or warrior anymore than the "lock" part smacks of key maker.
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« Reply #26 on Oct 29, 2011, 11:36am » | |
We all have these images in our head that we associate with words. Here is one of my Warlock images, from when I was a kid, back when we went to the video store all the time. I loved looking at the horror movie covers, and I would always pass this movie called Warlock with this dude on the cover.
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« Reply #27 on Oct 29, 2011, 1:16pm » | |
Oct 28, 2011, 9:54pm, The Perilous Dreamer wrote:| I like Eldritch knights, I would not use warlock since it reeks of real world occult. |
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Not meaning to be smart-alecky, and I'm all for endorsing thorswulf and aldarron's comments, but...
It's D&D. That ship kinda sailed almost 40 years ago, even without bringing AD&D into the discussion. The spell lists contain numerous examples based upon real world occult practice.
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« Reply #28 on Oct 29, 2011, 1:59pm » | |
I like cooper's suggestion. I would probably just call the class fighter-mage, though maybe that's my 2E background bubbling up to the surface.
The 1-to-1 blending of the title names is inspired.
If you don't mind mining more recent games, 3E has the hexblade, and 4E has the swordmage, though I don't like either of those because they seem to be too tightly coupled to a particular weapon. It would be like renaming "fighting man" to "sword master" or something; just not general enough. That being said, I think hexblade has a really cool ring to it, and would totally consider using it for an in-campaign organization name: Hexblades of Whosamawhere (or whatever).
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« Reply #29 on Oct 29, 2011, 3:01pm » | |
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