Patrucio
12-13-2003, 07:39 PM
Heya all.
I've been working on trying to start up another BR game, and have been thinking about incorporating one of my favorite house rules involving magic, namely the elf/human split on magic. I wanted to throw it up on here to see what you all thought about it. Basically, the split is based upon the distinction between the Sorcerer and Wizard class. Elves are always Sorcerers and can't access necromantic spells, humans are always wizards, and must specialize in one school of magic.
I've always liked the idea of the Schools of Magic, and feel that they have never been played up as much as they should. Dividing magic up into schools definitely seems like a human, Anuirean in particular, idea to me. Anuirean society lends itself to lawfulness, and so I believe that lawful inclination would tend to push Anuireans into trying to catagorize, define, and label meibhaigl. Different theories on how magic works would lead to different approaches to casting spells. It seems only natural that these different theories would produce certain effects better than others, thus lending a wizard towards specialization. Anuireans being Anuireans, there would naturally be competition between these schools, particularly after the College of Sorcery was founded and the different Schools began competing for the most promising students. (As an aside, I have an image of the College of Sorcery being a lot like Hogwarts from the Harry Potter books, but that is another discussion entirely.)
The question I have for you all is whether you think a) mandatory specializing for human wizards would handicap them too much and B) do the realm spells slant the choice too heavily towards one or two schools.
I've been working on trying to start up another BR game, and have been thinking about incorporating one of my favorite house rules involving magic, namely the elf/human split on magic. I wanted to throw it up on here to see what you all thought about it. Basically, the split is based upon the distinction between the Sorcerer and Wizard class. Elves are always Sorcerers and can't access necromantic spells, humans are always wizards, and must specialize in one school of magic.
I've always liked the idea of the Schools of Magic, and feel that they have never been played up as much as they should. Dividing magic up into schools definitely seems like a human, Anuirean in particular, idea to me. Anuirean society lends itself to lawfulness, and so I believe that lawful inclination would tend to push Anuireans into trying to catagorize, define, and label meibhaigl. Different theories on how magic works would lead to different approaches to casting spells. It seems only natural that these different theories would produce certain effects better than others, thus lending a wizard towards specialization. Anuireans being Anuireans, there would naturally be competition between these schools, particularly after the College of Sorcery was founded and the different Schools began competing for the most promising students. (As an aside, I have an image of the College of Sorcery being a lot like Hogwarts from the Harry Potter books, but that is another discussion entirely.)
The question I have for you all is whether you think a) mandatory specializing for human wizards would handicap them too much and B) do the realm spells slant the choice too heavily towards one or two schools.