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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 249629" data-attributes="member: 172">I am uncertain what you mean. Dragon magic is in bastion's Spells & Magic, alchemy and herbalism are in Bastion's Alchemy & Herbalism.As long as we are drawing comparisons here, Bastion's supplements focus largely on prestige classes as sort of "advanced fields of study" while Occult Lore introduces more core classes that are different from the get-go. I think which of these is preferable to you is a matter of taste.I've never liked the "skepticism dampens magic" paradigm. I can sort of understand why they went that route in Mage (and for that matter, Palladium's Beyond the Supernatural) because the characters live in a world where magic is greeted with skepicism, but in an overtly fantasy setting (i.e., most d20 system fantasy settings), I find the concept a bad fit. Yup. You will see I have similar comments in my "Touched by the gods" review. However, I feel this gives you more for your money that TBTG does, and has better mechanics to boot, so I think my review will fare a bit better.</blockquote>