Channelling:Spirit -mancer name?

[devonapple]

"Esper".

I thought Esper was rooted in the acronym "ESP," which implies perception more than telekinesis?

(It's probably been corrupted expanded to include other psionic effects).

My vote would be for kinetomancer.

[dmnsqrl]

I thought Esper was rooted in the acronym "ESP," which implies perception more than telekinesis?

(It's probably been corrupted expanded to include other psionic effects).

My vote would be for kinetomancer.

See, I personally don't like using kinetomancer because it seems to focus on just the force effects and not the light effects.... Admittedly, maybe a lot of Spirit evokers _are_ focusing on the force effects but I'm not seeing this character doing that...

[dmnsqrl]

Animancer

Oooh, I didn't see this before... I _like_ that

[dmnsqrl]

I would just call him a "Spirit Weaver". It does convey that he is using his power rather delicate instead of just using blunt force. Something like "Forceslinger" would be more appropriate for that, though I think the word is a bit of, there might be a better solution.

My concern with the term "Spirit weaver" is that unlike "Will weaver" or "Will Worker" (which to me implies weaving your own will to make something happen) "Spirit Weaver" to me seems to imply affecting someone _else's_ spirit.... which 1. isn't how Channeling:Spirit works and 2. would be an invitation to an awkward conversation with some Wardens.... but since the game is so much in play about the play of words, I'm not sure if I am comfortable with a term that has so much dissonance between its natural meaning and the Dresden Files rules....

[lordoracle]

If by channeling spirits, you mean like Mortimer Lindquist, the psychic in the books or Whoopi Goldberg in Ghost, the term in the books is "Ectomancy"? Dresden refers to Mortimer as an Ectomancer.

[dmnsqrl]

I'm talking about the skill 'Channelling' which is the lower level form of 'Evocation' used by focused practitioners and is usually specialized by element.... the book suggests Spirit as an element and says that it deals with force (so you could throw force at someone, like a magic missile..... also this covers moving things like telekinesis) and light and also involves veils (the 'instapoof' variety rather than the thaumaturgy/ritual variety)

[DBC67]

I call my spirit-mancer a Shaman
(with Ghost Speaker, Psychometry and Spirit Form...)

[Masurao]

Shaman is a pretty good name for certain Spirit-based powers/spells/rituals. Esper, if assumed to be dealing with ESP, could be a good one too: one of the sample evocation spells is Hyperawareness, for example. It is possible your character has ways of enhancing her senses on the fly in different manners, such as gaining greater eyesight. Technically, it's not ESP, but, hey, making people believe you can do more than you actually can, can be handy

You could always become a Self-Styled Jedi

[Haru]

I call my spirit-mancer a Shaman
(with Ghost Speaker, Psychometry and Spirit Form...)

To me the word shaman would be more a description of how the character is in contact with his magic rather than what he can do. You know, totems, chanting, dancing, the whole shebang.

[DBC67]

To me the word shaman would be more a description of how the character is in contact with his magic rather than what he can do. You know, totems, chanting, dancing, the whole shebang.

If you want to be stereotypical about it, sure.  I play a modern inheritor of ancestral spiritual powers, all the classic tribal shaman stuff, but no rattles or two-steps.  Ghosts just start showing up and asking for stuff, flashes strike when something is picked up.  He can also channel spirit and shapeshift into a bear.  We can be creative and make it work.