11-23-2020, 08:31 PM | #1 |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Pacheco, California
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Top objective of the Wizards' Guild
In my setting the primary objective of the top wizards isn't gold or glory. They're not all that interested in devising new spells or enchantments for their own sake or for their practicality.
What they want above all else is to discover the underlying truths of magic and so they do basic magical research. As a result they learn really impractical spells and enchantments. So when you find their treasures don't expect these to be much use for a muggle.
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11-23-2020, 08:46 PM | #2 |
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Boston area
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Re: Top objective of the Wizards' Guild
So, they're like a modern day philosophy department. I'm good with that.
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11-24-2020, 06:46 AM | #4 |
Join Date: Jul 2018
Location: Hyattsville, Maryland
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Re: Top objective of the Wizards' Guild
There's also an aspect of wanting to keep an eye over how and where magic is being used (and making sure they are at the center of it), q.v., The Cheesemakers' Ball.
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11-24-2020, 10:24 AM | #5 |
Join Date: Dec 2017
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Re: Top objective of the Wizards' Guild
I like this, or anything else that presents institutions and NPCs in ways that make sense at a human level. Imagine you met someone at a party who had devoted their life to maximizing the chance of victory in a gladiatorial fight to the death. A marginally interesting brief conversation, perhaps, but you would likely conclude this person was a dangerous nut and wildly under-developed as an adult human. Most of us have a more complex set of motivations, wants and needs, and avoid things like dying in an arena by simply not stepping into one in the first place.
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11-24-2020, 11:22 AM | #6 |
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: New England
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Re: Top objective of the Wizards' Guild
Peanut Butter Amulet Allows the caster to mix a volume of peanut butter to an even consistency. Costs 1 ST/lb.
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11-24-2020, 02:44 PM | #7 | |
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Boston area
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Re: Top objective of the Wizards' Guild
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The whole creamy/crunchy thing could cause considerable strife in a Wizards' Guild, if not open warfare. I wouldn't introduce this item unless I was ready to make a story involving such a chaotic situation. |
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11-24-2020, 09:11 PM | #8 | |||
Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Re: Top objective of the Wizards' Guild
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And even if all aren't like this, they're people, and people have all sorts of degrees of interest in money, power, etc. To have one character think like this is cool. To say they all think like this makes them less people and more stereotypes. The Cidri concept of wizards as professional experts like lawyers and doctors strikes me as more likely than this idea of them all becoming monk-geeks. I'm not saying it's a bad thing to have this as a background, and there might be a good reason for it in story, but I wouldn't push it on believability grounds. Quote:
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11-24-2020, 09:14 PM | #9 |
Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Re: Top objective of the Wizards' Guild
In this region of Cidri peanuts weight about seventy to eight-five pounds each. Peanut butter factories require arrays of apprentices, who quickly come to hate the taste of peanut butter.
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11-24-2020, 09:21 PM | #10 |
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: New England
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Re: Top objective of the Wizards' Guild
It's worse than than that: nobody actually eats peanut butter on Cidri due to severe allergies being prevalent in the gene pool.
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