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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gold Roger" data-source="post: 3043652" data-attributes="member: 33904">Well, for what it's worth, here's my rundown of cathegorising magic:Arcanism: Learning to manipulate magical forces that already exist and that form reality as it is. Arcane magic is aquired either through a born connection to these forces or study and performed by going through complex mental, verbal and somatic patterns.Divine: Magic that the wielder has been imbued with by some greater cosmic force or wielded by said forces (gods in the case of clerics, prime worlds in the case of druids). Used by imploring said fors and calling out the imbued power.Psionics: There's a bit of magic in every living being, especially it's mind. By awakening this "spark" and learning to wield it one can grow it. It's triggered by thought alone, because the thought is the power.So while other casters manipulate the "threads" that are already there, the psionic user creates new threads of power. Since something that already exists can't be warped to indefinitely, psionics can manipulate reality to a further degree.For example, an arcane caster can only change the magical powers of your mind (dominating at best-without wish) a telepath could even rip out and destroying all of your mind, replacing it with an entirely new web (mind seed, massive memory change, thrallherd).However, the psionic power is also a bit less refined, since it has no model to build on and has to start all new everytime. So a wizard has to summon something or breed an aberration over long time, but that will be a living, breathing, thinking thing, while the psion can create an all new creature out of thin air in seconds, but that creature will never be more than a unliving, unthinking object, that won't be sustained through time and whose appearance is only a fasade based on his imagination.Of course both kinds of mage say their way is better, the psionic boasting how their power is entirely heir own and theoretical without limits, while the arcanists point out how a psion has some very actual limitations and a arcanist with the right "model" can do everything.Then there's Ki, incarnum, item creation and dragon shamans, but I'll spare you those.</blockquote>

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