At 12.02 14/05/99 -0400, you wrote:
>From: "Alan Charity" <acharity@...>
Roleplay is a great thing and with it you can play any class as hindered it
is but...?
>Roleplaying is an art, I am sorry to say that a quite a few of the players I
>have met have not given serious thought to their character or the history.
>The last thing I want to hear from another player is "Cool".
>
>I choose a Human Wizard it fits my style and therefore makes it easy to
>roleplay.
>
>My wizard tends to keep to himself and in a group they almost always forget
>I'm there, up until combat and my spells start going off. I group because I
>must to get what I need to advance my skill. I will help people I meet along
>the way, race is not an issue if it advances my knowledge. My goal as a
>character is to learn all there is to learn, Knowledge is Power and Power is
>Good.
>
>Aljernon, Karana
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ziffnab MageStorm [mailto:eq_ziffnab@...]
>Sent: Friday, May 14, 1999 11:26 AM
>To: eq_wizards@onelist.com
>Subject: Re: [eq_wizards] Ice Comet
>
>
>From: Ziffnab MageStorm <eq_ziffnab@...>
>
>Wizards, by trade alone, are a selfish group. Now before you rant and
>flame me...hear me out. I am a 19th wizard. From our early lives we
>study magic, alone in arcane colleges. We concentrate on being our
>best, to better our mind and intelligence. This means little time for
>socialization (at most arcane arts schools). So yes, we do not
>concentrate on buffering other players, we concentrate on causing as
>much damage in as little time as possible. This leaves only us to
>think about in the way of shielding.
>
>(roleplay the thoughts folks...its easy...)
>
>My school was a serious school and one which I enjoyed my time at,
>however I enjoyed flirting with the other students and frequently dated
>the young lady clerics in the guild across the street and partaking in
>good elven wines and ale. I am much older now (145 years old) and
>still am looking at by the high elven wizards as somewhat of an outcast
>by their standards...but they never question my power and skill. Maybe
>they are just jealous. Good looks (yeah a little gray hair, but for
>145, close to middle age for me, that nnot bad), powerful magic...i do
>ok.
>
>I guess I am sort of a Rogue Wizard. I never liked their rules and
>strict policy. I decided to make my own policy and rules which led to
>my dismissal from the school early in my education of arcane arts. A
>wizard hermit in the area of felwithe approached me and offered to
>train me. He said I reminded him of himself when he was young. This
>old mage turned out to be my father whom I thought killed by Emperor
>Crush, long ago. He trained me well and polished my skills and told me
>of my true lineage in the "MageStorm" family.
>
>* that brings us up to now.
>
>-Ziffnab Magestorm, Xegony
>
>--- Simon Hinshelwood <iktome@...> wrote:
>> From: Simon Hinshelwood <iktome@...>
>>
>> Dear Ken,
>>
>> Firstly, I agree with the root duration indicator,
>> that relly would save
>> a lot of our fellow wizards life. Secondly, I dont
>> agree with us getting
>> buffing spells like SOW, that really belongs to the
>> Shamans, it's one of
>> the spells that makes them what they are, we need
>> other unique buffers
>> like magic resistence and in particular AE defense
>> spells.
>
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