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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 893650" data-attributes="member: 2067">Yeah, injecting the flavor of a wizard's school is certainly a lot easier than injecting Harry Potter.You just have to take the idea of D&D magic, and think about how that would be 'taught' to the young 'uns...maybe a 6-year thing where when they start at about age 10-11, they're apprentices with apprentice-level magic, but by the time they graduate, they're 5th level and 'reasonably confident adventurers.'It's pretty easy to have wierd critters teaching wierd classes....Aelina the elf teaches Enchantment, describing the differences between Charms and Compulsions, etc. ACTUALLY, it might be easier to do it with psionics, believe it or not. They do specialization much better, and have a much wider circle of things to choose from (from attacks to healing to mobility to psychic warriors).So you could have an Illithid teaching you about Telepathy...creepy Professor Semsinie, and his new elf wife/thrall. And you could have a dwarf teaching Psychometabolism. And perhaps a halfling in the Psychoportation school....Phy Ed could be optional...a specialist in physical might would be a psychic warrior.Heck, you even have the 'dark arts.' The WotC website uses the "Subconcious" as a sort of pseudo-FR-Shadow-Magic, and it even plays into morality fairly well (subconcious = dark desires = things better left unexplored).If you wanted to inject more "arcane" flavor, you could have regular animals instead of psicrystals, giving the animals the same abilities that psycrystals give, and leave it totally up to the player which to choose. You would have scrolls instead of power stones, wands instead of dorjes, weapons of 'special material' isntead of crystal (like a flaming sword that uses a phoenix's feather), etc. You would call it Enchantment instead of Telepathy, Dimensionism instead of Psychoportation, Transmutation instead of Pyschometablism, Divination instead of Clairsentience, etc.In addition, psionics works on a slightly-more-intuitive point system, and allows a lot of fun little feats for the PC's.The more I'm thinking about this, the more I like the idea of psionics as a typical 'wizarding school.' Is cool,.</blockquote>

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