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In much of fantasy you have your warriors, the fighters, knights, huntsmen, barbarians, archers and more. You also get wizards, whether they're called mages, magi, warlocks, sorcerers, witches and the like. These are all well and good, the kinds of things you can imagine being used in-universe to describe them. But what do you call someone whose skilled at both mundane combat and magic? A gish, but aren't they githyanki? I'm just looking for a generic term to apply to them.

Spell-sword. Get it? Sell-sword? I'm so funny.

And 3.5 has an Arcane Archer.

Bladesinger!

A list of names just out of my mind:

Arcane or Eldritch Warrior
Warrior-Mage
War Wizard
Spellsword (as 3llense'g suggested)

You can also call them Fighter/Mage or Fighter/Magic-user and then assign in-game-names appropriate for each culture/civillization. Bladesinger is an example, for elven fighter/mages. Axe-Sorcerers could be a description of fighter/mages for a barbaric tribe and so on..

Warrior-Mage popped into my head too.

Though I like War wizard, it could denote just a badass single class magic user.

So we have bladesinger, axe-sorcerer, warrior-mage, war wizard, arcane/eldritch warrior and spell sword. There's also magic knight, occult assasin, mystic archer, perfected adept (magic and unarmed fighting), gun mage (spell and gun slinging), aetheric fist (sorcerery and focus on unarmed fighting) and hermetic fist (normal magic-user and unarmed fighter). More setting specific names would be Jedi, Sith, Chapter Librarian, Runepriest, Grey Knight and warden.

Edit: Just added gun mage.

Edit: added in both aetheric and hermetic fist.

What do you call a mix of wizards and warriors?

A great freakin' TV show from the early '80s!


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizards_and_Warriors_(TV_series)
http://www.wizardsandwarriors.org/

sniderman wins the thread!

Agrippa wrote:In much of fantasy you have your warriors, the fighters, knights, huntsmen, barbarians, archers and more. You also get wizards, whether they're called mages, magi, warlocks, sorcerers, witches and the like. These are all well and good, the kinds of things you can imagine being used in-universe to describe them. But what do you call someone whose skilled at both mundane combat and magic? A gish, but aren't they githyanki? I'm just looking for a generic term to apply to them.

Magus, Eldritch Knight, Warlock

redwullf wrote:

Agrippa wrote:In much of fantasy you have your warriors, the fighters, knights, huntsmen, barbarians, archers and more. You also get wizards, whether they're called mages, magi, warlocks, sorcerers, witches and the like. These are all well and good, the kinds of things you can imagine being used in-universe to describe them. But what do you call someone whose skilled at both mundane combat and magic? A gish, but aren't they githyanki? I'm just looking for a generic term to apply to them.

Magus, Eldritch Knight, Warlock

Those three could work.

Agrippa wrote:

redwullf wrote:Magus, Eldritch Knight, Warlock

Those three could work.

I'm sure the first two are Paizo and WotC intellectual property, respectively, so I recommend just using them...privately.