Supposedly "Versatile Mages"

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by Cainehill:
Anyone else occasionally chuckle because the description of some of the Pretenders is so far offbase?

I think the problem is probably the language barrier. I often find that when Im dealing with people overseas who learned english. They seem to be using the dictionary definition of "versatile" rather than what the common english speaker thinks it means. Sometimes when Im talking to someone that I know has learned english I have to look words up to get what was meant.

In this case, being able to be equally magical in a couple of categories seems to make them versatile. Equal as compared with most pretenders that have a couple of magic channels aleady selected and their cost tends to force that you say in those. I dont think its meant to reflect that its a good chassis for a rainbow god.

[Firebreath]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
I think the problem is probably the language barrier.

Aye, its too bad they don't teach non native english speakers about sarcasm, bitter irony, dry humour, nonchalance and anglophilic understatemens...

Or maybe that's just because english people like to communicate in their own language without other english speakers being able to understand them correctly, without the fuss of having to put on a silly accent.