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<blockquote data-quote="JohnSnow" data-source="post: 5269485" data-attributes="member: 32164">Depends on the schools. All 8 of the old ones? Yeah, they drew some pretty fine and stupid lines. Schools are cool flavor-wise, but when you have to balance the choice so that all the school specialists are &quot;equal,&quot; things get pretty silly awfully fast.However, I think &quot;Evocation&quot; as the &quot;flashy offensive and defensive combat spells,&quot; &quot;Enchantment&quot; as &quot;mind-altering,&quot; and &quot;Illusion&quot; as &quot;things that fool your senses&quot; are all pretty straight-forward. Similarly, a school of &quot;Transformation&quot; or &quot;Summoning&quot; would also be fine as long as they kept the lines hard and fast. So far, that's all understandable on what I like to call the &quot;Harry Potter&quot; level.Where they created confusion in the old days was when they started trying to draw fine lines between what degree of altering the nature of something counted as a transmutation and what was just an enchantment. Or those &quot;conjurations&quot; that were the same as evocations. Of course, most of the egregious offenders were all about skirting the rules of opposition schools. So if you get rid of those, there shouldn't be any silliness. Just my take.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JohnSnow, post: 5269485, member: 32164"] Depends on the schools. All 8 of the old ones? Yeah, they drew some pretty fine and stupid lines. Schools are cool flavor-wise, but when you have to balance the choice so that all the school specialists are "equal," things get pretty silly awfully fast. However, I think "Evocation" as the "flashy offensive and defensive combat spells," "Enchantment" as "mind-altering," and "Illusion" as "things that fool your senses" are all pretty straight-forward. Similarly, a school of "Transformation" or "Summoning" would also be fine as long as they kept the lines hard and fast. So far, that's all understandable on what I like to call the "Harry Potter" level. Where they created confusion in the old days was when they started trying to draw fine lines between what degree of altering the nature of something counted as a transmutation and what was [I]just[/I] an enchantment. Or those "conjurations" that were the same as evocations. Of course, most of the egregious offenders were all about skirting the rules of opposition schools. So if you get rid of those, there shouldn't be any silliness. Just my take. [/QUOTE]

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