Auroris wrote:
This is mainly an issue of putting core 5e stuff into Arcanis with the Primer. In core 5e, sorcerers have some heritage that grants them their abilities; either a draconic ancestor, a fey creature, or something else that makes them able to wield magic.
In Arcanis, it doesn't really work like that. Almost anyone can be born with the gift for arcane magic, and with further training even those with a small natural talent can improve their abilities.
What the Primer is really trying to say is that if you want to play a human wielding arcane magic, you need to play a wizard. Humans in Arcanis don't fit any of the sorcerous origins from the core.
All of this will become clear once the Arcanis 5e book is released.
I understand this and will be fine with whatever is decided. The problem, I guess, from my perspective is that Arcanis doesn't have much of a tradition of people who gain magic through study (i.e. wizards). In most core material it seems that most people need to be born with a spark to be able to use arcane magic, which I generally take to be a sorcerer. The only two classes of casters I can see being wizards are sorcerer-priests (who study like priests but learn arcane) and maybe the elder casters who spend thousands of years studying. Oddly, in the current primer both of these can be sorcerers (though elorii can be either sorcerers or wizards).
The main problem I see is a story-problem of the threat posed by Ymandragore. The Ymandrakes are the boogey men who can come and steal your babies. But according to the new rules, they only steal Val babies, since they are the only ones to be born with the spark. That significantly changes the nature of the threat by removing it from all humans. It makes the Ymandrakes only a threat to the nobles of society, and should dramatically change the composition of organizations of the hawk and the shield.
Additionally, it should be noted that for those without a spark, becoming a wizard should be pretty difficult because wizards can't advertise to gain recruits without being harvested. Something should be said about how one becomes a wizard, if all wizards need to stay in hiding.