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Message: <blockquote data-quote="77IM" data-source="post: 6542543" data-attributes="member: 12377">The way I rationalize this, is that casting a spell requires you to focus your mind in particular ways that vary per spell. The type of mental focus required for fireball is something that wizards train in, sorcerers just kind of figure out, and warlocks have granted by patrons. The mental focus required for cure wounds is granted by deities or by the forces of nature; clerics, druids, rangers and paladins don't train or figure out that mental focus, it just pops into their brains when they pray.As dabblers, bards have managed to figure out some of the mental focus required for cure wounds and similar spells, but they don't typically train in fireball. Meanwhile, the gods of Light clerics DO grant the mental focus required for fireball. I would not be surprised at all if we eventually saw sorcerer bloodlines (celestial?) that granted access to cure wounds, or even potentially a wizard school that did so (although for balance reasons such subclass would probably be weak in other ways).This is why a spell scroll can be used by anyone with the spell on their class list. Both wizards and clerics have the mental focus required for detect magic so they can both use the scroll. If a wizard picks up a scroll of cure wounds he might understand the magical theory behind it but he just can't figure out how to make his brain think in the required way to actually cast it.Anyway that's my explanation for it.</blockquote>

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