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...To suggest the learning a mage would have, let's go with something Greek: Xanthippe, the name of Socrates' shrewish wife from The Republic. She was the bread- ==Chapter 1==

==Chapter 22== ...g under their feet. Just outside the gateway at the bottom of the stairs, Xanthippe looked around. A few columns, made of either gray stone or some strange me

==Chapter 14== ...nothing out of the ordinary. Any stowaways couldn't be very powerful, as Xanthippe could sense no magic, so they probably wouldn't be in any danger.

==Chapter 33== ...r an amulet which bestows +2 to your magical skills, having abandoned the +1 amulet you wore before. Is this not so?"

==Chapter 23== ==Chapter 24==

==Chapter 38== ...rybody else was there too. It must be a really slow night. "Hey, fuzzy?" Xanthippe asked Mizor. "Duck your head or something. Some of us can't see."

...that Jab was the only skill worth using. (This was in the hoary days of v. 1.0, of course.) Much later, I tried a Javazon, and had the opposite problem ==Chapter 1==

==Chapter 12== ...r girl is hot. Hey, weren't you running the betting pool on me beating up Xanthippe?"

==Chapter 8== ==Chapter 9==

...don't have much fun with it. My first Barbarian, way back in the days of 1.00, was a polearm whirlwinder. He was powerful, VERY powerful... so powerf ==Chapter 1==

...won't be much fun at parties, but being more mature and less profane than Xanthippe isn't a bad thing. My weapons of choice will be hammers (even the war scept ==Chapter 1==

==Chapter 8== ==Chapter 9==