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McGondy

Posted: Tue, May 28 2013, 8:26 AM

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Joined: 13 Apr 2013
Location: Victoria, Australia +10GMT

Hi. I have just been reading some spell descriptions and I have a question:
Who is this 'Bigby' fellow and did he have 'small hand syndrome' or something?

Oh and Isaac and his missile storms! Is it possible to play a mage named Isaac (or Bigby) and only use these spells?

Cerpin Taxt

Posted: Tue, May 28 2013, 8:43 AM

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Joined: 20 Aug 2010

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyhawk

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ainjyll

Posted: Sat, Jun 08 2013, 18:52 PM

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Joined: 14 Jun 2006
Location: wilmington, nc

McGondy wrote:

Is it possible to play a mage named Isaac (or Bigby) and only use these spells?

You would probably be treading dangerously close to breaking this rule, I'd ask a DM before doing it.

Rules wrote:

No famous names from literature, movies, PC games or any other source. If a DM spots the name as being a copyright infringement, as in being exactly like a name such as "Gollum", "Pippi Longstocking", or "Darth Maul", it will be changed.

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IronAngel

Posted: Sun, Jun 09 2013, 11:01 AM

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Joined: 29 Sep 2005
Location: Helsinki, Finland

If these NPCs are celebrities in the setting (though I'm not sure why the Greyhawk wizards are so well-known in Realmspace), I would be surprised if there weren't thousands of people named after them (or whoever older figure they were named after). I'm sure there are several Elminsters and Eltargrims in the Amian NPC population alone, just like there are many Johns, Pauls and Marys among our players. That rule ought to refer only to out-of-setting names.

But I'm not sure what storytelling purpose would be served by such a gimmick. A wizard who just felt like specializing in the spells because he was the creator's namesake? Possible but kind of weird. Wizardry generally requires so much dedication and forethought that such an impractical and whimsical decision seems psychologically implausible, wouldn't you say?

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Dunecat

Posted: Sun, Jun 09 2013, 12:12 PM

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Joined: 18 Aug 2012
Location: +3 GMT

IronAngel wrote:

...though I'm not sure why the Greyhawk wizards are so well-known in Realmspace...

For reasons entirely unrelated to in-universe happenings, I believe. An overtly extended homage to early gaming groups of Gygax.

IronAngel wrote:

But I'm not sure what storytelling purpose would be served by such a gimmick. A wizard who just felt like specializing in the spells because he was the creator's namesake? Possible but kind of weird. Wizardry generally requires so much dedication and forethought that such an impractical and whimsical decision seems psychologically implausible, wouldn't you say?

Possible solution would be personalizing all of your spells, which I can imagine some magicians would do.

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