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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6180892" data-attributes="member: 2067">Sorcerers are, in the fiction, using their dragon blood, so the sorcerer's source of power is their genetics or maybe actually their blood -- their life-force, the mantle of power from ancient ancestors. Like, they've got a little sparkle floating around inside them, and they can push that sparkle out. Psions are using mental energy, so their source of power is explicitly their brains, which apparently allow them to manipulate molecules, excite atoms, split time and space, and connect to the mental auras of others. Like, their minds just see all of infinity at once and can alter the world by imagining how it would be different. The world sparkles, they just can manipulate it with their brains.Sorcerer vs. Psion is sort of Mutants vs. New Age Retro Hippies. I don't really think I said you wouldn't be? Warlocks as divine casters is kind of weirdly appealing to me, just because it fits their story so well and so perversely. And I think in FR, the distinction between using the Weave vs. worshiping Mystara is kind of like the  distinction between building a fire, and worshiping the goddess of fire. Or going sailing on the ocean, and worshiping the god of the ocean. The god is part of the physical world, but just because the ocean is required to go sailing doesn't mean that sailing is inherently something religious.  Anyone with the proper knowledge can build a fire or sail a ship or cast a spell. Some just also pledge their lives to the agenda of the personification of fire or the ocean or magic. It's not about the source of power (it came from a god), but about your relationship to that source.</blockquote>

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