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<blockquote data-quote="s/LaSH" data-source="post: 790132" data-attributes="member: 6929">Hm. My campaign doesn't really have codified principles (because magic is so primitive - it's the Middle Ages, and nobody knows of any planes beyond Heaven and Hell), but the truth of it is something like this:Wizards channel elemental magics with the aid of rituals. These magical energies come from parallel planes (the elemental planes), but wizards don't know that - they don't really know why it works, but they know enough of the principles of drawing energy out of nowhere to make up new spells.Sorcerers channel raw magic from within themselves. Mortal races are very unlikely to have this kind of talent.Clerics are just like wizards, except they don't channel from the elemental planes; they employ positive energy instead. (The evil ones use negative energy.) There's no need for a god in this equation, I might add, and the priests know it - they employ magic in much the same way as they would employ a nice pen. It doesn't harm their devotion, largely because the formulae for spellcasting has been set up in prayer form.Everyone has a tiny bit of magical energy (except the throbbing Sorcerers), but it takes training to make it strong enough to open the tiny planar portals that create magical effects.There's no psionics. If there were, it would be fundamentally similar to sorcery.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="s/LaSH, post: 790132, member: 6929"] Hm. My campaign doesn't really have codified principles (because magic is so primitive - it's the Middle Ages, and nobody knows of any planes beyond Heaven and Hell), but the truth of it is something like this: Wizards channel elemental magics with the aid of rituals. These magical energies come from parallel planes (the elemental planes), but wizards don't know that - they don't really know why it works, but they know enough of the principles of drawing energy out of nowhere to make up new spells. Sorcerers channel raw magic from within themselves. Mortal races are very unlikely to have this kind of talent. Clerics are just like wizards, except they don't channel from the elemental planes; they employ positive energy instead. (The evil ones use negative energy.) There's no need for a god in this equation, I might add, and the priests know it - they employ magic in much the same way as they would employ a nice pen. It doesn't harm their devotion, largely because the formulae for spellcasting has been set up in prayer form. Everyone has a tiny bit of magical energy (except the throbbing Sorcerers), but it takes training to make it strong enough to open the tiny planar portals that create magical effects. There's no psionics. If there were, it would be fundamentally similar to sorcery. [/QUOTE]

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