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<blockquote data-quote="Henrix" data-source="post: 116512" data-attributes="member: 3587">Yes, of course. I was not saying that anything in the game mechanics forbade such a bonus, I said that I, if I were the DM, hardly would allow it. At least not without some really good justification.An item that gives a bonus to use magic device smacks of too much metagame thinking.Do you mind reading what I post, instead of what's in your head? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> I wasn't speaking of all items and all skills, I was speaking of Open Locks/Disable Device, a couple of rather specific skills that cannot be used untrained.Which _is_ the default for psionics, not just in FR. And in that case, as I read the Psionics Handbook, you can Use Magic Device with a psionic item, and vice versa.Hence I would consider them the same skill.And why this unprecedented antagonism? As far as I can see we basically agree with one another in this matter.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henrix, post: 116512, member: 3587"] Yes, of course. I was not saying that anything in the game mechanics forbade such a bonus, I said that I, if I were the DM, hardly would allow it. At least not without some really good justification. An item that gives a bonus to use magic device smacks of too much metagame thinking. Do you mind reading what I post, instead of what's in your head? :( I wasn't speaking of all items and all skills, I was speaking of Open Locks/Disable Device, a couple of rather specific skills that cannot be used untrained. Which _is_ the default for psionics, not just in FR. And in that case, as I read the Psionics Handbook, you can Use Magic Device with a psionic item, and vice versa. Hence I would consider them the same skill. And why this unprecedented antagonism? As far as I can see we basically agree with one another in this matter. [/QUOTE]

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