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Depends on the system, the world etc.. wizards usually are those who read scrolls, wield powerful destructive magic ie magic missile :P. Sorcerer usually use more illusion/mental or summoning type magic.....

Lets talk about clerics, rangers .........;)

In D&D parlance, a Wizard is someone who gets their magic powers from study, reading books, tomes and learning spells. While a Sorcerer has their powers from their blood and body, this can be because the Sorceror has some relation to a magical creature, like one of their parents was a demon, fairy or whatever.

Ah ok. Thanks, Breja.

Witches are female witchers.

All Fiction.

Not really, magicians do exist, Dynamo for instance, he is real, is a magician, and does "magic" tricks. Sure, it's illusion, trickery, and such like which is where most of the myth about magic and such like came from, but he is a bona fida magician.

As for OP, yes depends on what you use the term for. There are hundreds of myths, counter myths, cross overs, re-interpretations etc. On all these kinds of things, were the three wise men astrologers or something else, they are called magi in some translations of the bible (wise men). Magic tends to be more the realm of the well to do classes, so well educated, able to confuse and entrance the peassants. Totally juxtapose really to the concept of witch which is mostly women, not generally well educated but more grounded in the world and people, though has the ability to produce effects most normals find magical (curses, healing etc.).

At the end of the day, it is just a lack of knowledge on the viwers side, know how the trick is done it loses the appeal. Much like being able to throw a fireball (jar containing highly flammable material anyone?), shoot a lighting bolt (assuming you have a grasp of basic electronics) etc. The ancient t Greeks had a death ray which could set ships alight - it is assumed to be a series of mirrors that focused the sun, but...

I cannot agree that using ''tricks'' and ''illusions'' is magic.That sort of stuff is not magic in the true sense of the word,therefore it is Fiction.

But that is exactly it. The "magic" you talk about is from modern day interpretation, so wizards magic duelling, and such like is d&d and such like. But there are real magicians dating way back into antiquity, there were magicians in the courts of the Pharoahs, they performed tricks and such like which confused those who could not understand it. Tv and computers would seem like magic to those a hundred years ago a tesla lightning coil would have been magic way back etc. So the modern concept of altering the universe based on a power is unlikely (not impossible as we don't know everything) so can be considered fiction, how history is real, and magicians really did/do exist.

did nightcraw1er just reply to himself or did that acid just kick in?

I do that all the time... just not in public...

So do I; I don't have any friends IRL.

Its the crap forum software, which just doesn't work on mobile. I posted it a few times, it wasn't working, then I realised it hadn't shown all the end quote blocks, so I remove the first one to balance them up.

A lot of words in english come from the french (around 28% according to this wikipedia page : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Norman_language ), dating back to the norman invasion of England. Lots of things have 2 different words to say exactly the same thing in english. One comes from the french while the other is from saxon origin.
For example : "freedom" and "liberty" mean the very same thing. "Liberty" comes from the french "liberté" while "freedom" is older english.

I think it's the same thing with "magician" and "wizard", with "magician" coming from the french "magicien".

So for me, I would say it's exactly the same. For sorcerer, there is the french word "sorcier" but I really don't know the difference.


EDIT : just found this : http://www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-freedom-and-vs-liberty/
http://www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-wizard-and-vs-mage/
http://www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-wizard-and-vs-warlock/
http://www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-witch-and-vs-wizard-and-vs-sorcerer/
So according to this site, there IS a slight difference.

maybe...