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From: agranok@udenva.UUCP
Newsgroups: rec.games.frp,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: What to call a female wizard?
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Date: Fri, 8-May-87 15:14:27 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  8 15:14:27 1987
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Reply-To: agranok@udenva.UUCP (Alexander Granok)
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Summary: Sorceress and titles in general

Are you looking for an actual name for a female wizard or for the generic
term for a female wizard?  If you're looking for the latter (which I assume
you are since anyone can think of a name for the former), how about a...

                                SORCERESS 

Now, I don't want to hear from those title buffs that say, "But a wizard and
a sorcerer are two different things!"  Only in D&D, which decided to use
titles so that people could call their characters something other than
"seventh level magic-user."  In my book, mage, sorcerer, wizard, warlock are
all really just different names for the same thing.  Who cares if someone
calls their first level character a sorcerer?  "No, you're not a sorcerer, 
you're a prestidigitator!"  C'mon, give me a break.
-- 
                                           
Alex Granok 
hao!udenva!agranok

"A slow sort of country!"  said the Queen.  "Now, here, you see, it takes
 all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.  If you want to get
 somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"