What's the best type of Wizard?

>>54345844
Whizzard

>>54345844
Muscle

>>54345844
A godlike being that everyone, including themselves, nonsensically pretends is just a wizard.

>>54345844
The one that dies and stay dead.

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>>54345844
Kung-fu wizards

>>54345844
MUSCLE WIZARD!

The one that's as powerful as a martial of the same level

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hobo

Halfling Diviner wizard with lucky feat, bountiful luck and all of that. He practically decides when to end the fight at this point.
>I cast mass hold person
>Don't worry about rolling DM, those 3 fail instantly and I'll use lucky to roll for the remaining 2...they also fail.

>>54345844

Any type with an identity beyond just 'does magic'. The generic wizard is bland and boring by this point.

>>54351184
> Undead are immune to that. What's your AC?

>>54351272
oh fugg. you got me there.

Arcane Trickster

>>54345899
Fizban/Zifnab

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One who's a fan of Ronnie James Dio.

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>>54354440

>>54345844
Swords&Sorcery baddies.

Crabby loners with a large toolbox, but who fallback on trickery, and who only interact with society as a whole at it's expense.
Bonus points if the moral implications of their actions never even cross their mind.

>>54345844
One that harnesses some source of power, rather than just studying incantations, which colors the magic they use.

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>>54354941
I had an urban shaman in SR and all of his summoned spirits had a particular aspect.

I don't remember all of them now, but I remember that one of them (probably the spirit of Man) was always Baron Samedi.

Necromancers

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>>54345844
One so indescribably strong that he no longer even bothers to stay connect to any social norms.

Picture very related.

>>54355994
That is one of my favorite wizard representations.

>>54345844
The Sword and Sorcery kind where most of the magic is just clever tricks and illusions.

Engineer wizards are the best. Fuck robes & a dainty wand or gnarly staff, get yourself some practical clothes & a magitek gauntlet or gun or a practical rod

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>>54345844
Detective

>>54345844
Dimention wizards, wizards that are expert in space/time magic.

>>54345844
One that uses a mix of chemistry, lies and genuine esoteric power.

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The true wizard is a mixture of priest, hermit, alchemist, madman, wanderer and wiseman. A wizard is sort of set apart from society, he lives in the stars, he lives deep below the earth and he lives in the far place no one has ever been to. I think being a wizard is a lifestyle, it's not a career or title or anything, at some point, you're just a wizard. It's as vague and and indefinable as magic itself.

My ideal wizard is tied into my ideal view of magic, which I'm not sure has ever been done the way I think of it. For one, I abhor the ideal of some central or unified energy source. It's not very magical. It's very scientific. If you try to make it 'unstable' or 'strange', you often find it's just introducing very material concepts like unstable particles or radiation or stuff, just with fantasy names. Magic is magical, it's why even wizards call it magic. It's supernatural, we have our natural world, but just under the surface of it, just out of vision's edge, is a whole totality of nature. It's out there where the wizard lives. We see just a fraction of it in our folklore, faith and superstitions.

To try and be less flowery, I wish there was some way to take a mythical approach to magic, where shit's weird and just works because it's magic. It all has its own rules, but they're mystical, symbolic and strange. Words of power, incantations filled with intent, ritual, strange ingredients, potent places and times of day and night. I'd love to somehow have a magic system that could incorporate everything and be truly magical and not just reduced to stats and level requirements.

>>54345844
Pointy hat, long beard

Everybody else is a goddamn poser

>>54357137
Fuck I should have thought that
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