Aldarc
Legend
It's to point out that many people had no problems with some nonmagical abilities and effects affecting their character's emotions or psychological state in a previously popular edition of D&D that essentially had 15+ years of active support between 3e and Pathfinder, and that this whole "magic is the exception" is generally not consistently applied.Ok, in 3e (which I'm not playing) a Dragon's fear is Extraordinary, not Magical. There, I said it. How does that change anything substantive here? (If anything, I'd think this suggests that WotC realized that the term "Extraordinary" causes exactly this problem so they ditched it.)
My apologies. I read that as this being how you defined whether or not something is magic. Your position makes more sense in retrospect, though it obviously lies outside of my own preferences or opinions.I'd also like to understand why what I described sounds arbitrary to you. I'll state it again: the dividing line for me is between spells/abilities/whatever that explicitly state what the effect on a targeted creature will be, and those that do not. Where is the arbitrariness?
Edit: By the way, I may have found a video showing contests in Cortex Prime on YouTube, so that is coming. I just wanna review it first.