Re: Dwarves and Elves

At 04:21 PM 6/6/97 -0400, you wrote:
>At 09:02 AM 6/6/97 -0500, you wrote:
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>>>I'm a bit leery of allowing dwarven mages. It brings to mind those
>>>absolutely shitty GH novels by Rose Estes where one of the supporting
>>>characters is a dwarven *archmage*!! Actually there are several dwarven
>>>mages throughout her GH books.
>>>
>>I think it is a good idea to have Dwarven mages. Of coarse it will be a
>>challange to play a Dwarven Mage given the magic resistance of Dwarves.
>>>But this is what role playing is all about.
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>There was a major discussion, I believe, in the FR listserv about dwarven
>mages.  I would think that a Dwarven mage would have to worry about magical
>resistance in regards to items that he/she uses mostly.  If I were to allow
>dwarven mages IMOC, IMHO I would allow them to be some type of "special"
>kind of dwarf that was allowed by some god or another to access the weave to
>cast spells.  I would probably limit their abilities in some way other than
>just mag. resistance in regards to items but I will have to think about it
>and get back to you.  Remember, it's your campaign and especially when
>dealing with Space Dwarves in an outdated gaming system(I SHALL NEVER COUNT
>PLANESCAPE AS A VIABILE OPTION IMHO), certain rules may be bent, or even
>broken.  Try out some variations and see if it makes the class too powerful
>or not powerful enough.  Try to gain a balance within.  One thing I would
>think of adding also is to make it so that a PC class dwarven mage could not
>multi-class, make them a bit more frail than the other Dwarves in some way.
>Have the ridicule from the other dwarves about the PC help build a
>background for his/her magical studies...
>http://www.intercom.net/user/trose
>Cloud and Star---Things of the Heavens
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At least in DL, there is dwarven mages. The most degenerage of the dwarves
(I can't find my book to look this up) had savants who were spellcasters.
This is from the Dwarves boxed set for Krynn. They didn't really have ANY
rules on it, not even things like level limits and multiclass options, and
they were really meant for NPC's. This could be very interesting if the
party was going into a evil Dwarven citadel and found all of a sudden these
dwarves could cast spells. If I were going to have dwarven mages, I would
make them from a different sphere or after some magical calamity, and
probably remove their magic resistance.
David Starner - deos@????.net
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