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Old 08-22-2001, 12:05 PM   #1
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Could anyone tell me the different between an archmage and a mage?

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Old 08-22-2001, 01:09 PM   #2
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Think of an archmage as a older (wiser) mage who knows tons of kick-ass spells and isn't afraid to use them
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Old 08-22-2001, 01:13 PM   #3
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Think of an archmage as a older (wiser) mage who knows tons of kick-ass spells and isn't afraid to use them


That is right.
I believe I also heard/read somewhere that an archmage is usually about 100yrs. old...being that they have used spells to slow down the aging process.
I do not know the origin of this claim, though.
Maybe a link that Memnoch provided me with long ago.


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Old 08-22-2001, 01:19 PM   #4
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Theres a female red wizard with a amulet that makes her in here 30's but shes really in her 80's.

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Old 08-22-2001, 01:53 PM   #5
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IN AD&D terms a Archmage is a mage past a certain level, I think it is somewhere beyond 12th but I need to verify that with my old Players Handbook.
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Old 08-22-2001, 02:10 PM   #6
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IN AD&D terms a Archmage is a mage past a certain level, I think it is somewhere beyond 12th but I need to verify that with my old Players Handbook.
thats pretty much it

the mage school of ... (shit, forgot the name, it is a country on east coast of Faerun, it had a similar name to elven nation, and its ended with "thyr")

anyway, archmages are the ones past most of the tests, and became school masters. lvl 12 is a very close guess
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Old 08-22-2001, 02:12 PM   #7
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So if archmages are mages past level 12. Than technically everyone who's played through TOB had an archmage. Cool!

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Old 08-22-2001, 02:14 PM   #8
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So if archmages are mages past level 12. Than technically everyone who's played through TOB had an archmage. Cool!

BGII is not AD&D, in sense of its structure and interactions
it is screwed up version of CRPG
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Old 08-22-2001, 04:00 PM   #9
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The reason I asked is:
*SPOILER*

In ToB, Imoen had a conversation with the NEW NPC, where he calls her weak or something. And then she treatening him, saying "I am an archmage now" or something.

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Old 08-22-2001, 04:47 PM   #10
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The level that dictates a mage becoming an archmage is different for each campaign world.

For example, in Dragonlance there can be only one archmage of each order (orders = good, neutral, evil.) I believe the Good archmage must reach level 18, Neutral must reach level 16 and evil must reach level 13 (evil gains power faster.)

In most other campaigns, unless specified differently, a mage is definetely an archmage by level 18. You will never see a young archmage as it takes many, many years to gain such power.

I consider any mage 16th level or above an archmage, and only if their intelligence is 18 or higher.

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