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Changelog
02-12-2011, 02:20 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-12-2011, 02:26 PM by theredknight_x.)
Explain how a Sorcerer can specialize in a school of magic then? Only wizards can specialize.
Your quote is right from the Red Wizard prestige class in the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, I know. Put the blame on WOTC for backwards logic. Problem is in that same section for the Red Wizard it *Requires* those who take it to specialize in a school of magic in order to take the Tattoo Focus feat, which is a requirement for the class. Which none can do but the wizard. It was likely just an oversight on the part of the writers because they broke their own logic in that. @_@ I can understand why anyone could be confused with it.
So if you go strictly by the rules of the server itself, red wizards must be specialized, by definition you can't be anything *but* a wizard.
If you go by the PnP requirements you need the Tattoo Focus feat, which requires you to be specialized, and thus you must be a wizard to specialize, to be a Red Wizard.
Trust me Jechal, I know the pain of reading that sentence. I don't know how many PnP games I've DM'ed where someone pointed that out to me. And every time I have to go through this ridiculous explanation that could have been avoided if whomever wrote the Prestige Class descriptions would have read the damn requirements for the prestige class.
*sighs to WOTC for not thinking that one through*
Your quote is right from the Red Wizard prestige class in the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, I know. Put the blame on WOTC for backwards logic. Problem is in that same section for the Red Wizard it *Requires* those who take it to specialize in a school of magic in order to take the Tattoo Focus feat, which is a requirement for the class. Which none can do but the wizard. It was likely just an oversight on the part of the writers because they broke their own logic in that. @_@ I can understand why anyone could be confused with it.
So if you go strictly by the rules of the server itself, red wizards must be specialized, by definition you can't be anything *but* a wizard.
If you go by the PnP requirements you need the Tattoo Focus feat, which requires you to be specialized, and thus you must be a wizard to specialize, to be a Red Wizard.
Trust me Jechal, I know the pain of reading that sentence. I don't know how many PnP games I've DM'ed where someone pointed that out to me. And every time I have to go through this ridiculous explanation that could have been avoided if whomever wrote the Prestige Class descriptions would have read the damn requirements for the prestige class.
*sighs to WOTC for not thinking that one through*
(02-12-2011, 10:27 AM)Jechal Wrote: Sorcerers can be red wizards,... but it is very rare and yes, they are disliked. But it is possible..... posible for Bards to be Red Wizards too... extremely rare but possible
in the link i posted a few posts up...
(10-31-2008, 11:12 AM)Jechal Wrote: While it is possible for a sorcerer or bard to become a Red Wizard, such misfits are ridiculed in their homeland and are incredibly rare.