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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 2478780" data-attributes="member: 7240">First of all, mysticism, magic and religion are all different from eachother in any culture. You seem to be in danger of squishing them together. SSS-Druid has done a good job of Asian magic as a whole here in his post. A few notes on China:- Two main forces shape Chinese magic:(a) Pre-existing ancestor worship(b) Taoist physics- Shamanism, while popular in Siberia, Manchuria, Japan and Korea, was much more domesticated in China in the form of household gods and ancestor worship. - Like Aristotelian physics in Europe, Taoist physics was largely manifested in the forms of sympathetic magic and alchemy- Although Chinese Buddhism and Confucianism are different religions than Taosim, they still use Taoist physics/magicFrom a D&D perspective, I would recommend that you split Chinese magic along the following lines: magic based on Taoist physics should generally be arcane; magic based on ancestor worship and household divinity should generally be divine. I would therefore be inclined to make most Taoist priests function like the Mystic Theurge PrC.</blockquote>