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[–] zikzak025@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Wizards are the only ones who actually had to work for their magical abilities. Everyone else just inherited it or were gifted it by a higher power. Wizards are otherwise normal people who realized that they can figure it out on their own. And yet they're somehow always considered the haughty, elitist ones.

[–] Derpykat5@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's probably because whenever spellcasters are being compared, a Wizard comes in and says something like "we're the only ones who had to work for our magic", as if finding a powerful entity and convincing it to make a not horribly skewed bargain, learning to commune with the land itself, or following the orders given by a deity isn't "work".

And don't Bards also have to study their magic?

[–] zikzak025@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bards are just Wizards with arts degrees

[–] popekingjoe@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

I hate how much sense this makes.

Yeah druids, wizards, and bards are all "learned" spellcasters.

[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 9 points 1 week ago

Wooing and banging everything that moves is hard work

[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I would argue that a bard has to work at it since they had to take the years to learn a musical instrument and then put it to use as an adventuring tool.

[–] MouseKeyboard@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 week ago

Silly bards. Barbarians can easily use instruments as adventuring "tools".

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I make absolutely sure to talk shit at wizards every time I play a sorcerer. It's the way.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

My warlock: "I made a wish upon a star.

... And that dark, dark star answered in a long forgotten, forbidden tongue, and a pact was made."

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 6 points 1 week ago

Yeah, we had a warlock meet his patron. It was not a good time.

[–] lemonbun@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

D&D 5e (a kind of Pen and paper RPG) has a magic class that the source of their power is basically an I-O-U (I owe you) with a powerful entity, usually their patron.

It is not straight away clear what their patron wants, but it tends to be ominous, they might receive a "gift" now and then, or they may even be punished.

In any case, I find it funny that all the other classes put the work to learn magic, while warlocks just went to ask the worst guy in the neighborhood.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Sorcerer: Oh this? ::manipulating unimaginable energies with casual grace::

IDK, my blood just does that. I think I got it from my dad.

[–] AbsolutelyNotSpez@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

My vengeance Paladin: spite and malice

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Read Magic is fun-da-mental!