These comprised a system for warriors, wizards and various monsters of non-human races drawn from the works of Tolkien and other sources.

In many works of high fantasy, this conflict marks a deep concern with moral issues ; in other works, the conflict is a power struggle, with, for instance, wizards behaving irresponsibly whether they are " good " or " evil ".

The idea of magic in Mage is broadly inclusive of diverse ideas about mystical practices as well as other belief systems, such as science and religion, so that most mages do not resemble typical fantasy wizards.

It includes the Thyatian Empire, which could be compared to Byzantine Empire ; the Grand Duchy of Karameikos ( which includes the town of Threshold, the default setting of many classic D & D adventures ), comparable to medieval southeastern Europe ; the Principalities of Glantri, which is similar to medieval western Europe, ruled by wizard-princes ; the Ethengar Khanate, a Mongol-like society ; the merchant-run Republic of Darokin, which is based somewhat loosely on the mercantile states of Medieval Italy ; the Emirates of Ylaruam which have an Arabic flavor ; the Heldannic Territories, ruled by an order of religious Knights devoted to the Immortal Vanya, similar to the Teutonic Knights ; the Atruaghin Clans, which have an Amerindian feel ; the nation of Sind, based on India during the rule of the Mughals ; the Northern Reaches Kingdoms of Ostland, Vestland, the Soderfjord Jarldoms, based on Scandinavian kingdoms at various periods of history ; the Dwarven nation of Rockhome ; the elven Kingdom of Alfheim ; the Halfling lands of the Five Shires ; and the Alphatian Empire, ruled by wizards and other spellcasters.

Even in The Lord of the Rings, Gandalf was not tall ; shorter, for example, than Elrond or the other wizards.

Toth, however, was unavailable to continue working on the show, so most of the wizards and other villains and secondary characters that appear on the show were designed by Kirby.

He is a barbarian that was once a slave to Sabian until he was freed by Princess Ariel and given the Sunsword which he uses as a weapon in his fight against evil wizards and other villains.

The Archchancellor of the UU is considered the leader of all wizards on the Disc ( by those at the UU ), the first among equals ( i. e. the other eighth-level wizards ).

Since wizards ' favourite sports traditionally are things like Competitive Eating and Extreme Napping other wizards find him very tiring to be around.

They believe wizards are, as a genealogy book within the story phrases it, " Nature's Nobility "; other magical creatures and the non-magical are inferior and should be subjugated.

Only wizards and other dragons are capable of defeating a dragon.

The other wizards leave the tower as Rincewind rushes forward into the fire, grabbing the child and sending both of them to the Dungeon Dimensions.

* A gown worn in fantasy literature and role-playing games by wizards and other magical characters.

Another variant was used by T. H. White in The Sword in the Stone, where Merlin and Madam Mim fought a wizards ' duel, in which the duelists would endlessly transform until one was in a form that could destroy the other.

In preparation for the invasion, Urza creates the Tolarian academy, a research and development laboratory-school in which he and other mighty wizards train mages for the upcoming invasion and experiment on weaponry development, time-travel and genetic manipulation in hopes of creating a defensive army.

There are also fantasy and science fiction games with attendant wizards, spacecraft and other genres.

Mihaly became a wizard on BatMUD, but was banned for making a room that trapped and disabled other wizards.

In addition to combating Igthorn's ambition, the Gummis regularly encounter other evil humans and magical beings ranging from wizards to gods, all the while attempting to hide their existence from the world at large.

Rather than join the others, Ommadon instead offers to take control of the world himself ; whereupon the other wizards decide to seize and destroy Ommadon's crown, the source of his powers.

Old dragons can cast draconic magic which is a special form of D & D magic ; dragons can cast spells with just a few words, rather than a sometimes long and complex ritual involving words, gestures and preparations like other D & D wizards.

Since the 1st edition, the Player's Handbook has contained tables and rules for creating characters, lists of the abilities of the different character classes, the properties and costs of equipment, descriptions of spells that magic-using character classes ( such as wizards or clerics ) can cast, and numerous other rules governing gameplay.

There were three other men within this prison whom Barton would have liked to liberate, but they were in other cell blocks.

Their product had been endorsed by Good Housekeeping, the A.M.A., and the Veterinary Journal, among other repositories of higher wisdom, and before much longer if you didn't have a cake of their soap in the john, even your best friends would think you didn't bathe.

Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

Among Bourbons the racial issue may have less to do with their remaining unreconstructed than other factors.

That any sort of duty was owed by his nation to other nations would have astonished a nineteenth-century statesman.

Thus, to cite but one example, the Pax Britannica of the nineteenth century, whether with the British navy ruling the seas or with the City of London ruling world finance, was strictly national in motivation, however much other nations ( e.g., the United States ) may have incidentally benefited.

The one apparent connection between the two is a score of buildings which somehow or other have survived and which naturally enough are called `` historical monuments ''.

The lives so many of them gave, to forestall what they believed would be a fatal encroachment by the Union on the powers reserved to their states have continued ever since to safeguard all Americans against freedom's other foe.

This and other fears of the solar system have disappeared gradually, first, with the Ptolemaic system and its built-in concept of periodicity and then, more firmly, with the Newtonian innovation of an universal force that could account quantitatively for both terrestial and celestial motions.

He seems, by some unconscious division of labor, to have given them that one function and no other, leaving communication to the rest of the face.

We showed them to each other and said `` Would you have guessed ''??

In any social system in which communications have an importance comparable with that of production and other human factors, a point like f in Figure 2 would ( other things being equal ) be the dwelling place for the community leader, while e and h would house the next most important citizens.

In any other man this reassurance to the electorate would have caused us a profound moral shock.

They tell us, sir, that we are free, because we have in one hand a ballot, and in the other a stock certificate.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

Hanoverian agents assisted in promoting circulation, said to have reached 40,000, and if one may judge by the reaction of Swift and other government writers, the work must have had considerable impact.

When he remembered that he might have not signed the check, Mercer made out another for the same amount, instructing the bank to destroy the other -- especially if he had happened to have absent-mindedly signed both of them.

As for the paid Hessians from other states, we are here to instruct the Indiana Democracy in their duty, I have nothing but contempt.

His personal familiarity with the scenes of action undoubtedly contributed much to the final result, but familiarity alone would not have been enough without other qualities.

But because the governor was determined that friendship should not influence him one way or the other, he looked for a printer with a knowledge of the law ( which Woodruff did not have ), and awarded the contract to a lawyer named John Steele who had started a newspaper in Helena the year before.

Although he questions the extent and nature of the alleged revival of religion and the alleged increase in conformity, and thinks that `` hedonistic '' present-time orientation does not have the meaning usually attributed to it, he does conclude that Americans increasingly enjoy leisure without guilt, do not stress achievement so much as formerly, are more accepting of group harmony as a goal, more tolerant of diversity and aware of other cultures.