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Casters vs Martials: Part 2 - The Mundane Limit
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<blockquote data-quote="Scars Unseen" data-source="post: 8496007" data-attributes="member: 10196"><p>Honestly? That would be fine in a different RPG. But that's <em>super</em> setting specific sounding, and D&D isn't really a great fit for that as it stands. As a class or ability specific to a setting where that was the default premise, I could see it, but I don't really see WotC publishing that book. They seem too much to want everything to be for everything.</p><p></p><p>Interacting with magic as it interacts with the world, I can see a mundane explanation for. Using magical tools to detect and disrupt magical effects, I can see a mundane explanation for. Detecting, not merely the invisible, but the outright insubstantial and abstract and then interacting with it in unintended ways, all without any explanation for it other than their own senses and abilities? I'd need worldbuilding to support that, and the existing worlds of D&D don't have it. As I said in an earlier post, it pushes the line of credulity beyond the breaking point. At least with the current fiction.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scars Unseen, post: 8496007, member: 10196"] Honestly? That would be fine in a different RPG. But that's [I]super[/I] setting specific sounding, and D&D isn't really a great fit for that as it stands. As a class or ability specific to a setting where that was the default premise, I could see it, but I don't really see WotC publishing that book. They seem too much to want everything to be for everything. Interacting with magic as it interacts with the world, I can see a mundane explanation for. Using magical tools to detect and disrupt magical effects, I can see a mundane explanation for. Detecting, not merely the invisible, but the outright insubstantial and abstract and then interacting with it in unintended ways, all without any explanation for it other than their own senses and abilities? I'd need worldbuilding to support that, and the existing worlds of D&D don't have it. As I said in an earlier post, it pushes the line of credulity beyond the breaking point. At least with the current fiction. [/QUOTE]
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