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Their opinion about a given work doesnt necessarily need to be informed by anything other than experiencing that work. I dont see this as a problem, as the desire to innovate, grow and expand is pretty much built into most artists/creative types. I speak from experience as a writer in...

So what "metric" are we going to come up with that everyone can agree on? Whats the problem with everyone having their own opinions and all those opinions being valid?

I love stories. And I love magic. And anime has an abundance of both. I love many cultures, and I consider all of them to be "mine." I love Grim's fairy tales. I love Tolkien. I study many belief systems, religions, cultures and mythologies, and enjoy stories...especially stories about magic...

Ooo this is also quite an interesting line of thought, Mr. Person-Who-Doesn't-have-an-avatar-I-can-name-them-after.

Yes...the tone was offensive, and not just in a "you hurt my feelings" way. I have a problem with rudeness and discourtesy, no matter who it is aimed at. And wether its meant to be "personal" or not, it is not what you'd call positive bheaviour. But it was also the statements themselves...

For yourself yea. Just not for anyone else, or any "objective truth" of the quality of art.

Yea thats basically it. A fighter 10/Wizard 10 should be as good a fighter or a wizard as a fighter 20 or a wizard 20. But the fighter10/wizard 10 shouldnt suck mechanically either, and should be competent in both the areas.

From what I can tell, essentially he defines "crap" as anything that doesnt fit into some specific set of high brow academic artistic criteria, regardless of enjoyability or anyone elses feelings about a work

Exactly what I am saying. Thank you for that insightfully different way of putting it, Mr. Orange Kitten.

With that philosophy in mind, yes. But others may have a different philsophy, which is also valid. And therefore, it isnt objectively bad...only within the context of that philosophy. Which is exactly what I was saying last time we all had this discussion. If you choose to use a certain set of...

I agree with this...the goals/purpose is a big part of it. But the thing about it is, as you say, most works are going to meet some or possibly all of their goals, at least for some people. Especially given that a primarily goal of the majority of creative expressions is...

I understand that. Well I realize that some people think that, I dont really understand it personally. What I am saying is, as far as I've ever known, art is subjective. Wether a piece of art is "good" or "bad" is a matter of opinion. However, many people here believe a creative work can...

Retaining the idea of both spell slots and spell levels, but not linking them together would be basically a total overhaul of the magic system. From what we've been told, *spells* are going to remain much the same.

But who is then? See this is the problem with trying to apply objective standards to subjective things. If there is good art, and bad art, who exactly gets to decide which is which? Since everyone will have their own opinion on it, how exactly do we decide who's subjective opinion is better and...

Also, having some elemental/energy spells that arent simply damage attacks would be nice too. Theres like a chains of fire type spell in AE, for example. I could see a fire mage using that on a fire giant...the giant wouldnt take damage, but he'd still be caught.

I agree....but I think it should be achieved without violating the theme of the monsters either. Being a fire mage faced with fire creatures every now and then is an interesting challenge. Being an overall energy mage faced regularly with Fiends who are immune or resistant to like every attack...

I was talking about spells.

Wisdom can have a number of different definitions. However, this is also similar to how, really, members of various different classes would probably be more apropriate as "priests" of various different gods.

He wants the to go. The word go is after the parentheses. I didn't see it at first either.

Only with multiclasses between spellcasters of the same "power source" of which as it stands theres only 2 anyway..