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Message: <blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 8306249" data-attributes="member: 92511">Well, it's not strictly a Venn diagram. It also relays some visual... "cues," I suppose, as it's not really in-stone "rules" or anything...about both the number of casters working in those areas, and how much of a particular caster's "magic/spells" are their own.That is, to use your sample/suggestion, a Witch uses Witchcraft. A Witch is going to have spells that, more or less, do things that can be achieved/duplicated (if not the same exact spells) with Arcane Magic and Nature Magic in equal measure. A smaller fraction of their spells/craft is put toward things that can be done with/by Divine Magic (e.g. a divine caster could do it, too). Whereas the Bard's use of magic (for my system and setting) is simply very small bits of Arcane and Divine and Nature. Some of it could be duplicated by a Witch or a Shaman or a Cleric or a Mage, but a Bard is not going to be able to do everything that any of those other casters can do.As for "working with Spirits"....that is something that really goes to the 'school/art/practice" of magic work being used, not or "versus" the type/kind/source of the energy. A Druid can speak to (and conjure) nature/elemental spirits and Commune with Nature. Mages can Contact Other Plane, conjure any kind of creature from just about anywhere. Clerics and Paladins conjure Planar Allies, commune with spiritual entities and deific powers... and, basically, anyone/all of the above proverbially dips their toe enough into the pool of Necromancy to "Speak with Dead" in some fashion or form. So, the diagram(s) isn't really about which of the methods of magic a particular practitioner has access to, though that is "connected," a part of it. But what energies, the "Source" of the magic, is being accessed/enacted. If that makes sense...or maybe I'm just falling through a esoteric rabbit hole in thinking any of this matters to a world setting or player.</blockquote>

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