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<blockquote data-quote="Hawk Diesel" data-source="post: 7477854" data-attributes="member: 59848"><p>I disagree. As an analogy, if you have a person that is trained to drive a car and use a gun, without any training could they operate a tank? Similarly, I don't see any magic user being able to use a siege wand without specific and possibly extensive training. From my perspective, a siege weapon is much more sophisticated than a normal wand, and doesn't simply enhance magic cast or focused through it. Rather, I see them as specially enchanted and containing so much magical energy that it could potentially catastrophically explode if used wrong or it the wards and sigils containing the magic are damaged enough. I believe that while siege wands would have been used with regularity in the Last War, they also had that trade off of potential destruction. Thus they would have been used only from a good distance with sufficient protection. Much like how artillery shells must be carefully stored and protected lest they become a liability as much as a weapon. That's why I personally don't see them being able to cast any spell poured into them, but only specific magical uses determined at their creation. And that is why I don't see just any wizard or artificer being able to use them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hawk Diesel, post: 7477854, member: 59848"] I disagree. As an analogy, if you have a person that is trained to drive a car and use a gun, without any training could they operate a tank? Similarly, I don't see any magic user being able to use a siege wand without specific and possibly extensive training. From my perspective, a siege weapon is much more sophisticated than a normal wand, and doesn't simply enhance magic cast or focused through it. Rather, I see them as specially enchanted and containing so much magical energy that it could potentially catastrophically explode if used wrong or it the wards and sigils containing the magic are damaged enough. I believe that while siege wands would have been used with regularity in the Last War, they also had that trade off of potential destruction. Thus they would have been used only from a good distance with sufficient protection. Much like how artillery shells must be carefully stored and protected lest they become a liability as much as a weapon. That's why I personally don't see them being able to cast any spell poured into them, but only specific magical uses determined at their creation. And that is why I don't see just any wizard or artificer being able to use them. [/QUOTE]
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