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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ExploderWizard" data-source="post: 5904287" data-attributes="member: 66434">Yep.  Also, magic should be able to what the mundane simply cannot do thats why its magic. Problems arise when magic is too plentiful, and the cost of using it is trivial.  Once magic becomes so cheap and ubiquitous then it is natural to want to reign in what magic can accomplish. To that I say what good is magic if it is just another way to accomplish the mundane?  In order to truly be magical, magic needs to keep being beyond the mundane. This is why its important that magic has costs and limitations.  Part of those costs and limitations is making sure magic is never free. No magical power should be completely at will. Also the idea that a magic user who isn't using magic 24/7 is useless can crawl off and die. Part of being a wizard is knowing when to use your limited power and when not to. No matter if its memorized spells, or a finite amount of magical energy, fantasy fiction is filled with magic using characters that are miserly with their powers, sometimes to the point that those accompanying them doubt their magical skills completely, at least for a while. A magic user should be equipped with knowledge of magic, and a broad spectrum of subjects. This should be valuable to a party and make the magic user a contributing member of the group even when not casting spells.   I realize that this is hopeless because self control, and thinking have been declared offically unfun.<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/ponder.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":hmm:" title="Hmmm    :hmm:" data-shortname=":hmm:" /></blockquote>

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