stevemangames

This thread gets posted time and time again on /tg/ about what terms do you use for various magic-users and the like so I thought I'd sit down and right out the variety of jargons for mages in my own pulp-fantasy worldbuilding project (the one run with 10D6/dungeonpunk, not BX D&D). And if you're one of those loons who shits on worldbuilding all the time as a distraction, suck eggs. You're wrong and your games are bad. Magic-User Anyone who uses magic as their trade. If you use magic, you are a magic-user. Mage A term magic-users use to refer to themselves in a casual sense, often prefixed or suffixed with a description of what they do. Life mages are magical physicians, Fire mages throw fireballs, Death mages futz with the powers of life and death, magewrights make minor magical trinkets. The only exception is Potion-makers, they don't identify as mages normally. Specialties Abjurer, Pyromancer, Necromancer, Artificers, etc. Within the academic circles of sorcery,