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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Retros_x" data-source="post: 9130726" data-attributes="member: 7033171">YOU need it, but that is not a general requirements as tons of DMs, myself included, do not need it.Proficiency does just mean that a caster is proficient with something. A Barbardian getting more proficient at athletics doesn't mean they took a scientific, academic approach to it. Same with casters. While wizards might study spellcraft, sorceres have innate powers that just awake, clerics getting their power by the gods, warlocks via a pact with a patron etc. There is nothing academic, scientific about a warlock getting their powers, its literally a higher being just granting them in exchange for something. But even in case of wizards: Are you really need to explain the exact narrative workings of magic? Isn't it enough to have wizards study the manipulation of the weave and thats it? Why the need to have exact rules? Do you think it was beneficial to the narrative of Star Wars to introduce midichlorians? Do you understand quantum physics after watching Oppenheimer? If not, does that make the movie miss something?Spellslots and the other game mechanics around magic are an abstraction, the same has hitpoints, hit bonuses etc. Treat it as an abstraction and don't overthink it.On a side note science is not 100% reliable as experiments can fail, old theorems are getting contradicted, hypothesis fail to prove right etc. And humans used the power of fire or other things long before they knew the scientific explanations behind it. Before science could explain it, humans thought of thunderstorms as the machinations of gods. If you could show man from 15th century a smartphone he would call it magic. You can easily treat magic the same in your fantasy game. When you have a explanation behind magic, it is not magic anymore, because magic is literally supernatural.</blockquote>

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