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<blockquote data-quote="nightwyrm" data-source="post: 4769622" data-attributes="member: 75542">D&amp;D magic is just a matter of &quot;graphics&quot; or imagery.&nbsp; If the wizard shoots lightning and blows the orc back 20 feet that's magic.&nbsp; If the fighter kicks the orc back 20 feet, that's non magic.&nbsp; I subscribe to the idea that magic is just another way or tool for the player/PC to interact with or cause an effect in the game world.&nbsp; I don't see a fundamental difference between &quot;mundane&quot; and &quot;magical&quot; in a game world.&nbsp; Mundane is just the name we give to things that we're familiar with in the real world.&nbsp; The players find stuff in a game world to be magical because they don't have experience with it in the real world.&nbsp; For the wizard character who casts spells reliably everyday of his life, magic is as much a tool to him as PCR gel-electrophoresis is to a real life geneticist.Of course, I came from an asian background heavily influenced by tropes where natural and supernatural aren't divided by a sharp line and where the protagonist can accomplish any feat if he trains hard enough.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="nightwyrm, post: 4769622, member: 75542"] D&D magic is just a matter of "graphics" or imagery. If the wizard shoots lightning and blows the orc back 20 feet that's magic. If the fighter kicks the orc back 20 feet, that's non magic. I subscribe to the idea that magic is just another way or tool for the player/PC to interact with or cause an effect in the game world. I don't see a fundamental difference between "mundane" and "magical" in a game world. Mundane is just the name we give to things that we're familiar with in the real world. The [I]players [/I]find stuff in a game world to be magical because they don't have experience with it in the real world. For the [I]wizard character[/I] who casts spells reliably everyday of his life, magic is as much a tool to him as PCR gel-electrophoresis is to a real life geneticist. Of course, I came from an asian background heavily influenced by tropes where natural and supernatural aren't divided by a sharp line and where the protagonist can accomplish any feat if he trains hard enough. [/QUOTE]

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