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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 2279575" data-attributes="member: 4937">Does it?  Are you sure that you know how magic works?Does it?  Although this is irrelevant, it doesn't in my campaign.  Fireballs in my campaign world do not violate the law of conservation of energy.Are you sure you know how it works?  Are you aware that there exists a finite possibility that a particle of a given mass (or a cloud of particles of a given) mass, will be spontaneously generated in a vacuum?  Perhaps its possible to manipulate the space time fabric in such a way to alter this probablity, using a small ammount of energy to create a larger ammount.  This is actually said to be the principal behind the warp power core in Romulan starships.  Why can't it be the principal behind a fireball?Like, say, a wand?See what I think is that you've been given a sufficiently compelling explanation for the effect, and now you accept as part of your conventions about what is possible reflexively.  The problem for me though is that I know enough science that I often can't accept that its possible for a 'machine' to do what it is claimed that it does, especially given the explanation for how the machine works.  Ultimately, saying that the machine does it somehow just isn't a any more compelling for me than saying that the spell caster does it somehow.  What's really going on is that we live in a world were we daily see machines do so many seemingly impossible things, that if someone tells you a machine does it, you are inclined to believe it unquestioningly.</blockquote>

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