@Gaagaagiins i probably could be killed by a foam swordâŠ
Show me the person who could not be killed by a foam sword
wizards in your area, blushing and acting all shy about going to hang out with someone as cool as Ana, discussing in the group chat whether they should wear swords to the arcade meetup or not
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Swordless, by far.
Raistlin didn't carry a sword, and he surely counts amongst the most unfuckable (with)
Another factor about a wizard strapped with a badass looking sword, they could be a skilled swordsman, but it could also be the case that theyâve got it because itâs some kinda legendary magic sword, and they're not carrying it for swordsman reasons but for unrelated wizard reasonsâŠ
Fear not the danger of the wizard who can use a sword against you, fear the wizard who carries a sword so that it may _not_ be used against you...
@Gaagaagiins we got these foam katanas from legoland when we were kids. i guess theyâd just launched the ninja range perhaps? anyway, the swords were lame for chopping but floppy enough that, if you whipped them, itâd really smart. that was fun.
they were stiff enough that you could kind of chop with them and not feel too silly, but the side-to-side floppiness was hilarious. legoland armed us with whips.
I think we should also factor the size of the sword, because if, letâs say, it is a Gutsâ sized sword whatâs gonna happen here is that Iâm going to start mistrusting the ability of the wizard for the actual magic-wielding. But at the same time, if itâs like an extremely tiny dagger it could also speak for the wizardâs lack of self-confidence.
If it's a regular sized sword, unadorned and not super fancy, it could potentially mean they mean business, and will use that for killing anything too annoying for actual magic casting.
Hmmmm not super intimidated by this
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if i see a wizard with a sword i wonder, is he a wizard or what? a wizard with a sword is either a bad wizard or a sword goof.
obv thereâs a market for it but idk why people go for magic user classes or whatever in games, itâs too fussy like micromanaging your chipotle order
Lots of people saying the swordless wizard is the toughest but the poll tells otherwise. I think wizard with sword has something to prove and will kill you at the first opportunity where the swordless wizard will find other ways. Like we're talking about ourselves here, I assume, not some seasoned battler going up against this wizard.
I think about it like this - if you put me in a situation with an aggro MMA enthusiast, the likelihood he's going to beat me up is very high. He's all roided up, he's probably drunk, he thinks I'm the guy that said something about his girlfriend even though we've never met, he's LOOKING for an excuse to fight.
Now the true martial arts master would easily dispatch this agro mma bro if forced, and all that sort of thing. But the true martial arts master, if put into a situation with me, is going to let me go along my merry way unless I force them into a situation where they have no choice. They're not looking for a fight, they just finish fights that others start, basically.
So I think at our collective character class (peasant) the wizard with the sword is the one who's unfuckablewith because he's trying to start stuff wherever he goes. The wizard without a sword is just like "how ya doin, how's the crops" and that's it.
a man walks into a character creator and orders a wizard without a sword but he gets an error message: this game is out of swords, would you like a wizard without knives?
Why is everyone seeing the sword as a compensatory display? Maybe the wizard is just a shy fencing enthusiast and the sword is a reliable icebreaker. âOh, this old thing?â
w/ sword only because 8 year old me loved roleplaying as a wizard in the woods but also loved swinging a stick around
@exodus So what youâre saying here is that we donât have any chance against any of the two options and I get it, but hear me out: the fact that we are all here carefully pondering this scenario proves that at the very least we are smart peasants.
So this could be a Asterix/Bacurau flavored scenario where the wizard with the sword comes to the IC village trying to start nonsense but we find a really clever way to gang up on him, perhaps inviting them to some donkey milk and stealing the sword when they're not looking, then putting some drugs on the milk and retrieving their magic wand or arcane magic tome or whatever. That would effectively turn the sword wielding magician from unfuckeablewith to actually fucked, so who's the peasant now is what I'm saying.
Guess Gandalf's got some rude dude attitude!
@Gaagaagiins ok fine.
@Gaagaagiins A sword is a known quantity, and magic is not. Wizard with no sword conjures more imagination and terror for me.