WodenKrait wrote:
Starkad wrote:
perhaps he is not a sorcerer
I think he's definitely meant to be the example Sorcerer (who we first see on page 31 along with the example Mystic). The reason I think this is a bit lamo is that nowhere does it say that just because Sorcerers are left-handed, they can only cast their spells with their left hand. To put it another way, if we saw a picture of a knight who we happened to know was right-handed wielding his sword with his left hand, we wouldn't conclude this was an insoluble paradox would we? Maybe he had a blister.
Hmm. Maybe I've been drinking too much coffee lately. I got a bit worked up there...
Cheers,
-Kyle
Yeah, it's not really a contradiction - being left handed says nothing about which hand a spell effect can originate. However, it could be inferred - if you are right handed and you try to throw something with your left hand, your aim and power is typically severely reduced. The same may apply to Sorcerers, so aiming a dragonbreath with the right hand would incur poor accuracy (and perhaps reduction in speed, if a game penalty needed to be applied). I vaguely recall a similar penalty for combat mentioned if a character loses their favoured hand.