southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
This is not really the right community, but I wanna play anyway lol.
If I’m getting your scenario right, the choice is between being you, but not having access to the Wizard class (or whatever it would be called) and limited to other classes; or not being you at all in terms of consciousness and being a wizard.
If that’s accurate, what would be the point of reincarnation? You wouldn’t get to enjoy any of it as your self. So unless the scenario factors in souls having memory and you’d get to enjoy it that way, it seems a pretty bad choice in terms of experiential immersion.
So, obviously, with that in mind, I’ll take the brand new body, thank you. Though if I can’t do so with my people also being present, I’d opt out entirely. I’m not sacrificing the good in my life, abandoning the people that love me and rely on me, just for an adventure. That’s what d&d is for, you dig? Taking an adventure like that without at least my wife is a hell no.
bizarroland@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Your memory stays intact with either decision.
The question is, do you want to have your knowledge be immediately applicable to you upon being born, or do you want it to be a wellspring of information that you can pull from in an entirely different world where physical labor is dramatically simplified by the use of magic?
The advantage of magic is magic. You might be able to make extra coin by developing simple technology like a bicycle or something, and selling them to other people, or if you’ve read a lot of do-it-yourself and how-to books over your lifetime, you might be able to improve people’s living conditions and make a good life for yourself in the process.
The advantage of knowledge in this world would be things like putting extra skill points into your intelligence until you unlock eidetic memory and then remembering every lottery number that has ever been played that you’ve ever casually seen in your entire life, every stock market notable maneuver or event, and every major and minor catastrophe that has happened over your entire life and then do things to either prevent them or capitalize on them.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Ahhhh, that makes it much easier to choose magic. As long as I don’t have to leave my people behind, I’m down for that