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Jon Peterson Shares Aronson's Original OD&D Illusionist
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<blockquote data-quote="Aaron L" data-source="post: 7775669" data-attributes="member: 926"><p>Point taken, but even in 1E the spells were grouped into Schools of Magic which were listed at the top of the spell description, and most of the names of the Schools made some kind of sense by either the traditional meaning of the terms, or at least some kind of symbolic connection... all except Invocation/Evocation.</p><p></p><p>It's not a big thing, and doesn't actually mean anything in the long run. But ever since I started playing D&D when I was 14 and I understood what the names of all the Schools meant except for Invocation/Evocation, so I looked it up and discovered what the terms actually meant, and then did further research and discovered the Roman <em>Invocatio</em> and <em>Evocatio</em> rituals (and further remembered reading the name of the "Invocation" at the top of the little church program papers we got each Sunday morning back when I went, before I was ostracized and told I was going to Hell for playing D&D by a certain large group of church members, ironically, almost a decade after the height of the D&D Satanic Panic), it's just always stuck in the back of my mind and bugged me enough to not be able to forget about it. </p><p></p><p>I think I like MrZeddaPiras's explanation the best: one summons or conjures physical objects like monsters, but one invokes or evokes non-physical things like energies and elemental forces, either calling up forces from outside (invocation) or from inside oneself (evocation.) As for conjuring Elementals, well, those are whole creatures, so it is Conjuration/Summoning magic.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aaron L, post: 7775669, member: 926"] Point taken, but even in 1E the spells were grouped into Schools of Magic which were listed at the top of the spell description, and most of the names of the Schools made some kind of sense by either the traditional meaning of the terms, or at least some kind of symbolic connection... all except Invocation/Evocation. It's not a big thing, and doesn't actually mean anything in the long run. But ever since I started playing D&D when I was 14 and I understood what the names of all the Schools meant except for Invocation/Evocation, so I looked it up and discovered what the terms actually meant, and then did further research and discovered the Roman [I]Invocatio[/I] and [I]Evocatio[/I] rituals (and further remembered reading the name of the "Invocation" at the top of the little church program papers we got each Sunday morning back when I went, before I was ostracized and told I was going to Hell for playing D&D by a certain large group of church members, ironically, almost a decade after the height of the D&D Satanic Panic), it's just always stuck in the back of my mind and bugged me enough to not be able to forget about it. I think I like MrZeddaPiras's explanation the best: one summons or conjures physical objects like monsters, but one invokes or evokes non-physical things like energies and elemental forces, either calling up forces from outside (invocation) or from inside oneself (evocation.) As for conjuring Elementals, well, those are whole creatures, so it is Conjuration/Summoning magic. [/QUOTE]
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