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In D&D they are moral ideals. They can also be religious, but not necessarily, especially if the Paladin is not a mini-cleric with a direct connection with a LG deity. Some versions of the game allow that.

I am very conflicted on this, myself. On one hand, allowing every or most deities to have a Champion (the route Pathfinder 2e took for the name if I am not mistaken) makes sense, expands the universe, and adds options for the players. These are all good things on top of what you just said, and...

Eh. Armor tend to not be a floating bonus barring Mage armor. Circumstance is generally something the players looked for so they will remember to keep track of. Insight is rare. Profane and Sacred usually don't happen on the same guy (usually). Synergy for skill checks is usually pre-calculated...

Sorry but you started posting a video with a complete misconstruction and misinterpretation of basic history by a tankie. And more importantly, you wanted to force a connection between a character class and its possible historical inspirations ignoring that such inspirations went through the...

No, they think about people on a crusade. Or on a jihad also, if you will. But intended not militarily, or not only - more as a struggle, as something that is a fight for justice and good, from their point of view. In the real world we all know how tragic and often ironic this can get, but in...

I am not going to spend time debunking the video of a terminal tankie, quite frankly. Were I am from, we call it the "theory of the mountain of manure", which in brief laments the monumental effort one must spend to carefully debunk wackos. Same reason why I don't have the energy and time...

This. Also, posting that youtuber is not a good look, that guy is misinformed and biased. Is like the that infamous guy that starts with W, but on the other end of the political spectrum. Overall, youtube channels should be avoided as a primary source of history analysis and interpretation.

Everything in D&D and similar games belongs to an ideal word, in a manner or another. Even the bad guys. The fire in the forest is not just a series of chemical reaction, is something that is a manifestation of enraged spirits and channels the energy of the elemental plane of fire.The whole...

And this shows that using Arcane for Diplomacy is logic because...?

Last time I checked, spells and powers were in PH. A lot of things should have been in the PH1 but they went with the same prince and 60% of the pages. It really doesn't. Your strenght does, you skill as athlete can be tangential at best. Stuff that help youe endurance lice your Con score will...

But this only points out the inconsistency of the design and why the way 4e built is creates a disconnection. One would wonder why magical knowledge doesn't help me in better burn people alive with fireball. Is a non-explanation, you basically have to adapt your fiction on the fact that the...

... And I asked above why Arcana only helps here and not with other spells. Also I seriously doubt the BG voice is a good parallel with D&D magic, but ok.

Albeit disagreeing, I could follow your answer up now. None is suggesting to use Arcana to FIGHT, but to use spells. @Undrave and @SteveC: If that's the case, why is not used on other spells. You are giving me very elaborated answers but not addressing the point. You don't have to explain me...

This was addressing people that stated that 3ed mass suggestion solved a whole encounter with multiple targets, but I understand I constructed the post in the least comprehensible manner, my apologies.

What is the Arcana skill doing. And if is improvement of magic, why only works with suggestion. See the Suggestion sub-thread, but you already answered.

So it should also help other spells, not only Suggestion. Which was over-simplified like this because any open use of spell was anathema to 4ed design.

I am over simplifying, but not by much. Is an Int related skill used to identify magic-related stuff, recall magical info, etc. You cannot just dismiss it. How does this help? - what happens in-universe? Athletics and Acrobatics are not fighting skills in fact. Not every athlete is a fighter...

But being a nerd and being socially skilled don't always go together. If it's just an improvement of the MAGIC related to it, why Arcana doesn't boost to hit with spells?

How can an arcana skill be used for diplomacy. I ask again - what happens in universe. Because what minigiant said is not an answer BTW. If that was the case, the high skill would have boosted the hit, or nerfed a save, or whatever depending on the edition. Also why Arcana makes the suggestion...

This doesn't address my point, sorry. And more importantly - we are going back to "your actual issue is specific spell mechanics". I also ask - are there saving throws in your games? Because if a whole group of monsters fails them at once, they were not supposed to be a threat anyway. Still...