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marycatelli) wrote2022-12-30 11:54 pm
marycatelli) wrote2022-12-30 11:54 pm
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exclusive magic
Knights are more powerful but much more focused in the magic they can perform than wizards are, and also it's a one and done enchantment, but it has to suit them.
Wizards can cast a lot more variety of spells, including some they find antithetical to their natures but more weakly, and they have to study.
If true, that means that if you want to duplicate something a knight can do, you can throw enough wizards at it. If you want to make a piece of magic world-shaking not only for what it can do, but for what knights will refuse to do with it, these rules do not suffice. It's all very well for a truth-determining knight to insist on applying the magic to the master's favorites as well as those he wishes to railroad, but a wizard would be willing to do it.
In order to produce those kinds of changes, I will either have to make wizards much weaker, or say that knights are the only ones who can do them.
Hmmm -- perhaps they accidentally produced that kind of knight when they didn't realize the character of the person they were knighting, and have yet to reverse engineer the magic. A knight with a strong enough will can override the will of the wizard. . . .
Wizards can cast a lot more variety of spells, including some they find antithetical to their natures but more weakly, and they have to study.
If true, that means that if you want to duplicate something a knight can do, you can throw enough wizards at it. If you want to make a piece of magic world-shaking not only for what it can do, but for what knights will refuse to do with it, these rules do not suffice. It's all very well for a truth-determining knight to insist on applying the magic to the master's favorites as well as those he wishes to railroad, but a wizard would be willing to do it.
In order to produce those kinds of changes, I will either have to make wizards much weaker, or say that knights are the only ones who can do them.
Hmmm -- perhaps they accidentally produced that kind of knight when they didn't realize the character of the person they were knighting, and have yet to reverse engineer the magic. A knight with a strong enough will can override the will of the wizard. . . .