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<blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8419464" data-attributes="member: 6915329">Not really. I'd think that's a god that represents magic. Now, clerics of that god shouldn't be treated as wizards, and even if they cast wizard spells (using divine spell slots), I think that those should count as divine spells that mimic arcane spells, but aren't actually arcane.(Personally, I'd be fine if there were no gods of magic, or if gods of magic exist to produce magic or maintain the Weave or whatever but didn't have clerics, or if their priests were wizards but didn't gain clerical powers, or something like that, but that's me). But anyway, the Arcane domain is just one type of cleric, as opposed to the entirety of the psion. If you go through the <a href="https://www.d20srd.org/indexes/psionicPowers.htm" target="_blank">psionics power list for 3x</a>, you'll find that probably most of the abilities are very similar to arcane spells, even ignoring the powers listed as &lt;spell name&gt;, psionic, like psionic disintegrate or psionic teleportation circle. What can be done about this, I don't know, unless there are strict rules in place about what each type of magic can do and what types of magic each caster can use.This I very much agree with. I haven't actually done that since nobody has played a sorcerer in a game I've run, but I'm sorely tempted to create custom lists. Or have custom damages, at least--there's no reason a black dragon sorcerer can't take fireball if the damage was changed to acid.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Faolyn, post: 8419464, member: 6915329"] Not really. I'd think that's a god that represents magic. Now, clerics of that god shouldn't be treated as wizards, and even if they cast wizard spells (using divine spell slots), I think that those should count as divine spells that mimic arcane spells, but aren't actually arcane. (Personally, I'd be fine if there were no gods of magic, or if gods of magic exist to produce magic or maintain the Weave or whatever but didn't have clerics, or if their priests were wizards but didn't gain clerical powers, or something like that, but that's me). But anyway, the Arcane domain is just [I]one [/I]type of cleric, as opposed to the entirety of the psion. If you go through the [URL='https://www.d20srd.org/indexes/psionicPowers.htm']psionics power list for 3x[/URL], you'll find that probably [I]most [/I]of the abilities are very similar to arcane spells, even ignoring the powers listed as <spell name>, psionic, like [I]psionic disintegrate [/I]or [I]psionic teleportation circle.[/I] What can be done about this, I don't know, unless there are strict rules in place about what each type of magic can do and what types of magic each caster can use. This I very much agree with. I haven't actually done that since nobody has played a sorcerer in a game I've run, but I'm sorely tempted to create custom lists. Or have custom damages, at least--there's no reason a black dragon sorcerer can't take fireball if the damage was changed to acid. [/QUOTE]

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