Titles for casters: wizard of..., mage, sorceror, what else?

tieran said:
Kiefer-

Shh!

There's no religion in this game.
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Of course not. We certainly never have plots that revolve around having to placate nigh-omnipotent beings in order that the natural cycles continue as planned.
 
Exactly.

So, shh.

Jeez, guy.
 
What about the great goblin god, Shai Neez? They sing his praises so often I assume he's a benevolent diety.
 
That's different.

And, shh!
 
Telokh_Amdo said:
Both Witch and Warlock should be avoided for religious reasons.
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Especially warlocks. Considering the word warlock means oath breaker. And witch. Well we have history of what was done to people with that label. Not that I have ever labeled myself as such. But those two names should be avoided.
 
Telokh_Amdo said:
"Shaman" is a word specific to an indiginous culture that most likely will not encounter our game.
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Um, you know somebody who is on our staff IS a shaman, right?
 
Ezri said:
Telokh_Amdo said:
"Shaman" is a word specific to an indiginous culture that most likely will not encounter our game.
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Um, you know somebody who is on our staff IS a shaman, right?
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As a matter of fact, yes. I was referring to the Tungus indigenous culture where the word "shaman" originates. It expanded from there to a wider anthropological usage.
 
I'm generally okay with using most words that people get cranky about. I'm okay with "shaman", "sin", "lord" and all those other funky phrases. To steal Carlin's line, there are no bad words. It's all about context.
 
I always thought "lord" was a reference to a King or other nobility rank and using it to refer to God was just an extrapolation from that.
 
Telokh_Amdo said:
I always thought "lord" was a reference to a King or other nobility rank and using it to refer to God was just an extrapolation from that.
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The sounds themselves derive from a germanic phrase meaning "bread-ward". The idea of a deity referred to simultaneously as a ruler predates that (for instance, see Adonai which refers to, secularly, a superior, but religiously reflects the Hebrew god. As I said, context is everything. Calling someone a shaman in Alliance to refer to a healer or magician is fine, IMO, while calling someone a shaman to refer to a religious leader is verbotten. Notice our easy acceptance of templars to refer to scholar-fighters, yet you would be hard-pressed to find a secular reference to such a term in the real world.
 
I just think it silly to worry about offending someone with this game. Becasue when it comes down to it, thats what this is, a game. We are hear to have fun, and I doubt anything should be taken so seriously as to actualy offend someone's religion. If so, perhapes this isnt the right game for them. Like people who get all bent outa shape over D & D. Or when the pope wrote a letter saying harry potter was "erroding the very fundementals of christianity". Complete nonsence.
--bill
 
Its less worrying about people who play the game being offended, and more worrying about the people that we rent campsites from being offended.
 
Silly or not, it's part of the rules that there be no religion in this game. I'd have to agree with jpariury, though, that it's all about context, so I would find nothing wrong with e.g. witch, as long as it's not used in a religious way. We would soon run out of meaningful words if we eliminated all words that mean something religious to a specific group.

More on-topic, I've always been a fan of enchantress for a female spellcaster.
 
Enchantress rocks, as long as you pair her up with a Rabid Wombat scavvie.

;)
 
from thesaurus.com with a search on magician. Choose what you like, ignore what is silly.

charlatan, charmer, conjurer, enchanter, entertainer, fortuneteller, genie, houdini, illusionist, juggler, mage, magus, mandrake, medium, merlin, necromancer, prestidigitator, shaman, sorcerer, thaumaturge, thaumaturgist, warlock, witch, wizard
 
Not to be overlooked are kooky made-up titles. Because when you're that powerful, you've fought hard for your eccentricities. As a bored clerk in a medical facility, here's what I've been cooking. It also never hurts to fall back on the classic "noun-verbing."

Arcanist
Catalyst
Eldermage
Ensorcellor
Geomancer (or really any cool greek/roman root word next to mancer)
Leywalker
Noun-Verber (anything sufficiently cool)
Spellweaver
Suzerain

I don't want to get too over-the-top, but it's so easy.
 
Lol.

I'm still stuck on some of the earlier ones in this thread.

Call one of these Female Ritual casters a Crone or a Hag.....I Dare you.

But wait, :lol: I wanna be there when you do it.
 
As far as titles go, use your own common sense and discretion. I don't think its necessary to start creating rules for which to call or not call people by...

As an aside, I was always a fan of "Arcanist"
 
That almost sounds like an "archavist" :D

Ah the millions of classes from D&D 3.5...
 
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