I'm running Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (i.e., the RPG of the tabletop wargame) tonight, second session. Instead of rolling up fighters and magic-users and such, you basically start off as chimney-sweeps and grave robbers and apprentice scribes and shit, and if you're very lucky (i.e., you survive) you might progress to an actual adventuring profession (what will actually happen is you'll get eaten by a chaos daemon or catch the plague or get mauled by a housecat or something). Endless fun. Get at me if you wanna give it a try, shooting for 6ish in Worcester.

can I be a wizard?

You "can" in that there's a quantum state of potential wizardry/suckitude. In other words, if you roll up an apprentice alchemist or a scribe or something, you might eventually learn to cast a spell. And then you might avoid getting burned at the stake for a witch, too. IT'S A WORLD OF POSSIBILITY.

If you roll up a fisherman or a charcoal-burner or something the odds are somewhat less in your favor. (Or you could even roll up a hedge wizard and get started avoiding inquisitors right from the get-go!)

Can I play via this thread?

I plan on being a hedge wizard this weekend, got some landscaping to do. Otherwise, I am not leaving the basement.

If the /r/ttp play-by-post D&D game on here a while back is any indication - yes, yes you can.

Roll them dice khed, I'm a Space Marine.

IMMATURE

False; human WFRP characters start anywhere up to age 35.