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What is the difference between sorcerer and wizard ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between sorcerer and wizard ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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It depends on the media and definition you give them. Realistically they're the same thing.
I usually see them based on the dungeons and dragons definitions:
a wizard is (usually) a nerd with a book. They are someone who learns spells, and uses their intelligence to apply them. They're very smart, and if not they're a pretty bad wizard.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/classes/wizard
A sorcerer is someone who naturally has the ability to cast magic, they don't have to learn spells yet innately are able to use them, and as they refine their magic, they become able to do more things. In dnd they use their charisma to cast magic.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/classes/sorcerer
and on the topic of dnd, I can throw in another word that literally means the same thing, warlock.
In dnd, a warlock is someone who gains magic from a patron, someone they do something/give something in return that the patron loans them their magic.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/classes/warlock
However, as I said, all these words mean the same thing, and these definitions are from a very specific medium. They are all users of magic, and you can add whatever differences you want to them.
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It depends on the media and definition you give them. Realistically they're the same thing.
I usually see them based on the dungeons and dragons definitions:
a wizard is (usually) a nerd with a book. They are someone who learns spells, and uses their intelligence to apply them. They're very smart, and if not they're a pretty bad wizard.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/classes/wizard
A sorcerer is someone who naturally has the ability to cast magic, they don't have to learn spells yet innately are able to use them, and as they refine their magic, they become able to do more things. In dnd they use their charisma to cast magic.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/classes/sorcerer
and on the topic of dnd, I can throw in another word that literally means the same thing, warlock.
In dnd, a warlock is someone who gains magic from a patron, someone they do something/give something in return that the patron loans them their magic.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/classes/warlock
However, as I said, all these words mean the same thing, and these definitions are from a very specific medium. They are all users of magic, and you can add whatever differences you want to them.
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