All the World’s a Stage: So you want to be an Enchanter

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Filed under: Enchanting , Lore , RP , (Roleplaying) All the World’s a Stage This installment of All the World’s a Stage is the thirty-first in a series of roleplaying guides in which we find out all the background information you need to roleplay a particular race or class (or profession!) well, without embarrassing yourself. Enchanting cries out to be roleplayed. It could be a kind of magician’s engineering, or a more refined cousin of alchemy . Although you could certainly play an enchanter as another sort of magical mad-scientist, the profession actually lends itself well to a more gentlemanly (and sane) approach, where experiments are not so much about creating some sort of autonomous monster or mind-controling love potion of serene bliss, but rather altering the nature of things to do what they never would have done previously. Enchantments have a huge role in mythology and literature. Cinderella’s fairy godmother turned a pumpkin into a stage-coach with an enchantment, Hogwarts School’s ” Sorting Hat ” famously talks to students who wear it, and the One Ring even contains the soul of Middle Earth’s lord of evil personified. All these are enchantments in which ordinary items are magically enhanced so as to reflect some aspect of character development or plot in the story, and a roleplayer at the keys of an enchanter character can work similar magic in telling his own story. Continue reading All the World’s a Stage: So you want to be an Enchanter All the World’s a Stage: So you want to be an Enchanter originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sun, 03 May 2009 23:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink | Email this | Comments

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