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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8240866" data-attributes="member: 6704184">I know exactly what I said. It implies nothing like what you claim. Stop making disingenuous comparisons unrelated to what I’ve actually said. I compared farmers to trades professionals, and successful farming very much does require a similar level of skill and knowledge. I’m still blown away by your laughable earlier inclusion of seamstresses as low skill workers.   perhaps more importantly, even “lower skilled” trades take years to master, and in official lore and from Keith’s words Lamplighters take years to learn their trade well enough to do it professionally. Because most people who can learn magic need that sort of time do so. I personally dislike this vision of PC exceptionalism, but it’s the official take in Eberron. Nothing I said implies what you claim. And no, again you’re ignoring that becoming a magewright is required to be able to activate arcane siege engines. This is exactly the point. A weapon that requires specialized training equivalent to a trade skill is inherently not directly equivalent to a basic cannon, which does not require anything like that to operate. Yes, it is. Anyone can be trained to do one. The other, very much not so. No, it isn’t. A trades professional is not comparable to a surgeon. You’re inventing absurd comparisons and then pretending I made them, when I didn’t.</blockquote>