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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 7302038" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>Well, here's an interesting observation about Rituals and MPs in 4e. They are ALMOST the only area of the game where one set of things is distinguished as explicitly magical, and another is distinguished as 'mundane' (though to be honest MPs are often pretty fantastical, so its perhaps a distinction without a difference). In my redesigning of 4e I abolished that distinction. One of the conceits of HoML is that the world IS magical, all of its processes, their governing rules, and their motivating energies ARE magic. This is in accord with much of the thinking of pre-modern people. As such there can be no such thing as a distinction between practice and ritual. They are one and the same. When the smith beats the iron into shape and alloys it with carbon to form a steel sword, that is a magical process from the start, there is no 'non-magical' 'nature' which exists without magic. So, in fact, I don't need MPs, but I also don't 'not have' them, they're just procedures which fall into certain categories. As with all other procedures, they can be invoked to allow a skill use in a narrative situation which fits their description.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 7302038, member: 82106"] Well, here's an interesting observation about Rituals and MPs in 4e. They are ALMOST the only area of the game where one set of things is distinguished as explicitly magical, and another is distinguished as 'mundane' (though to be honest MPs are often pretty fantastical, so its perhaps a distinction without a difference). In my redesigning of 4e I abolished that distinction. One of the conceits of HoML is that the world IS magical, all of its processes, their governing rules, and their motivating energies ARE magic. This is in accord with much of the thinking of pre-modern people. As such there can be no such thing as a distinction between practice and ritual. They are one and the same. When the smith beats the iron into shape and alloys it with carbon to form a steel sword, that is a magical process from the start, there is no 'non-magical' 'nature' which exists without magic. So, in fact, I don't need MPs, but I also don't 'not have' them, they're just procedures which fall into certain categories. As with all other procedures, they can be invoked to allow a skill use in a narrative situation which fits their description. [/QUOTE]
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