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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FireLance" data-source="post: 5051954" data-attributes="member: 3424">I personally think that both are examples of creativity.I think here is where a bit more clarity would be useful. Are you assuming that the spell will have different mechanics in addition to different flavor? I think many of us are assuming that the mechanics will be exactly the same even though the description is different.Which version of reality are you simulating? Even in math, there is not always a one-to-one relation betwen numbers. There are many-to-one relationships in which applying the same function to two different numbers has the same result (one example is a simple square function where the square of -2 and the square of 2 are exactly the same) and one-to-many relationships in which there may be more than one result that could be obtained from applying a function to a number (these are usually the reverse of many-to-one relationships; for example, the square root of 4 is 2 and -2).If many-to-one relationships exist in math, I have no problems envisioning a world where different mages from different schools of magic can achieve the same result through different approaches to spellcasting. To use an even better example, I could communicate exactly the same idea in English, French or Mandarin even though I might be using different sounds to do so in each language.</blockquote>