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<blockquote data-quote="RainOnTheSun" data-source="post: 9303127" data-attributes="member: 7031409"><p>I was reading the "One thing I hate about the Sorcerer" thread (<a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/one-thing-i-hate-about-the-sorcerer.703338/" target="_blank">https://www.enworld.org/threads/one-thing-i-hate-about-the-sorcerer.703338/</a>), and it gave me a moment of realization. I don't know how useful, boring, or obvious it will be to anyone else, but I wanted to write it down anyway. So, here's my scorching hot D&D take: Bards, wizards, and druids indicate one thing about the way magic works; clerics, sorcerers, and warlocks indicate another thing. And they aren't fully compatible.</p><p></p><p>To bards, wizards, and druids, magic can be accessed through human (or demihuman) endeavor, just like any other field of study, from archery to farming to medicine. You can study spellcasting in a detatched, analytical way, you can express yourself through it in an individual, creative way, or you can pursue a holistic understanding of you, magic, and your place in the greater natural universe. Each approach will teach you different lessons, but one way or another, you're doing things that, theoretically, any human being could do if their mind was expanded enough and they knew what you knew. The same way that, theoretically, anyone could do the fighter's twelve step Steel Vortex Deathblow if they knew the technique and their body was sufficiently conditioned to hold itself together while doing it.</p><p></p><p>To a cleric, a sorcerer, or a warlock, magic is <em>not </em>something an ordinary person can just "learn to do." You either need to have a special relationship with a supernatural being (cleric, warlock) or be some kind of supernatural being yourself (sorcerer). Either of these approaches are logically consistent on their own, but when you mix the two of them, you get weird dissonances. Why would a warlock sell his soul for power that he could just as easily learn to harness on his own? Wouldn't people with an innate gift for magic (sorcerers) be the people most likely to study it?</p><p></p><p>If I have any real point to this, it's that a setting with only bizuids or only clercerocks would be interesting, and say something more concrete about the metaphysics of the world. That, and it's another reason warlocks should be intelligence-based casters - you can harness magic through any of the mental ability scores if it's natural, and you can harness magic through any of the mental ability scores if it isn't.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RainOnTheSun, post: 9303127, member: 7031409"] I was reading the "One thing I hate about the Sorcerer" thread ([URL]https://www.enworld.org/threads/one-thing-i-hate-about-the-sorcerer.703338/[/URL]), and it gave me a moment of realization. I don't know how useful, boring, or obvious it will be to anyone else, but I wanted to write it down anyway. So, here's my scorching hot D&D take: Bards, wizards, and druids indicate one thing about the way magic works; clerics, sorcerers, and warlocks indicate another thing. And they aren't fully compatible. To bards, wizards, and druids, magic can be accessed through human (or demihuman) endeavor, just like any other field of study, from archery to farming to medicine. You can study spellcasting in a detatched, analytical way, you can express yourself through it in an individual, creative way, or you can pursue a holistic understanding of you, magic, and your place in the greater natural universe. Each approach will teach you different lessons, but one way or another, you're doing things that, theoretically, any human being could do if their mind was expanded enough and they knew what you knew. The same way that, theoretically, anyone could do the fighter's twelve step Steel Vortex Deathblow if they knew the technique and their body was sufficiently conditioned to hold itself together while doing it. To a cleric, a sorcerer, or a warlock, magic is [I]not [/I]something an ordinary person can just "learn to do." You either need to have a special relationship with a supernatural being (cleric, warlock) or be some kind of supernatural being yourself (sorcerer). Either of these approaches are logically consistent on their own, but when you mix the two of them, you get weird dissonances. Why would a warlock sell his soul for power that he could just as easily learn to harness on his own? Wouldn't people with an innate gift for magic (sorcerers) be the people most likely to study it? If I have any real point to this, it's that a setting with only bizuids or only clercerocks would be interesting, and say something more concrete about the metaphysics of the world. That, and it's another reason warlocks should be intelligence-based casters - you can harness magic through any of the mental ability scores if it's natural, and you can harness magic through any of the mental ability scores if it isn't. [/QUOTE]
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