Actually, watch it be 665, just to piss people off.
Edit: AH, GOD DAMMIT!! >_<

And I'm pretty sure their reason for not bathing was less logic-oriented and more christianity-oriented... They were trying to avoid the orgies of the roman bathhouses or something like that.

So you've said.

That's a neat idea. Knights and Ninjas get white and black magic, respectively. Fighter might heal his own stab wound, or Thief might, y'know, electrocute Red Mage or something like that.

A Thief with power over magic AND ninja skills?

Hold me, I'm scared.

Well BM will be able to use better weapons, & he can already use Hadoken a Level 9 spell, so who knows how powerful his new spells will be.

Besides Ninjas have very limited magical ability, of course the ninja skills are very scary considering how all the abilities he already has including the Law Ninja.

Actually, he has already used Bolt 3 in the comic, which I don't think can be used by Black Mages in the original. So he already has his magic abilities. I think he will just be more powerful and more able to use his powerful spells. My memory is he could only use some 4 mega spells, so now he will be able to use more.

That is, of coarse, if Brian makes this anything like the game.

I'd flat out be scared if BM was able to cast just two Hadoken's per day.

Actually, Black Mages could use up to FIR3, LIT3, and ICE3 (Firaga, Thundaga, and Blizzaga), but that's as far as their casting ability went. Only after class change would you be able to learn NUKE (Flare).

However, Black Mage has already proven himself capable of casting Flare, and even Meteo (Exploding Tuesday, anyone?), so I'm not quite sure what he'll gain from this, if anything.

Ummm... What did RM do again? I musta missed something obvious.

If by "limited" you mean "all of the level 1-4 black-magic spells", then yes. Ninja gets a much better spell selection than Knight, who only gets stuff he doesn't really need when he finally gets it.