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<blockquote data-quote="Nifft" data-source="post: 1558839" data-attributes="member: 6562">In D&amp;D world, the active person's philosophy / training / understanding directly affect what their actions actually mean.The only way to repeat an Arcane experiment is to take enough levels in Wizard.The only way to repeat a Divine experiment -- well, there's no way. Every time you're asking a higher being to do something for you.Alchemy is the &quot;state of the art&quot; in terms of chemistry -- it's the best that people have ever done. Note how simple the alchemical items are to explain:- &quot;What does this jar do?&quot;- &quot;When you throw it, it burns.&quot;So, perhaps I could be convinced to allow a &quot;Tinkerer&quot; class which was able to make some chemistry work for themselves only. Just like magic, you'd need to have training to get the reaction(s) to occur.(In response: automation is based on leveraging someone else's understanding. I do not allow even the precursors. If chemistry works, then automatic revolvers work, and those are more clearly automation.)Hope that helps, -- N</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nifft, post: 1558839, member: 6562"] In D&D world, the active person's philosophy / training / understanding directly affect what their actions actually mean. The only way to repeat an Arcane experiment is to take enough levels in Wizard. The only way to repeat a Divine experiment -- well, there's no way. Every time you're asking a higher being to do something for you. Alchemy is the "state of the art" in terms of chemistry -- it's the best that people have ever done. Note how simple the alchemical items are to explain: - "What does this jar do?" - "When you throw it, it burns." So, perhaps I could be convinced to allow a "Tinkerer" class which was able to make some chemistry work [i]for themselves only[/i]. Just like magic, you'd need to have training to get the reaction(s) to occur. (In response: automation is based on leveraging someone else's understanding. I do not allow even the precursors. If chemistry works, then automatic revolvers work, and those are more clearly automation.) Hope that helps, -- N [/QUOTE]

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