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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AliasBot" data-source="post: 8123860" data-attributes="member: 7021806">The inconsistency with which spells have been assigned to schools comes to mind:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">There's no reason for Darkness to not be an Illusion spell - or at least, no good reason.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Speak with Animals, Beast Bond, and Tongues are Divination spells; Message and Speak with Plants are Transmutation spells; Sending is an Evocation spell. Pick a school for communication magic and stick with it, ffs. (Personally, I'd go with Divination.)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Similarly, sensory-enhancement spells seem to be pretty consistently considered Divination...and then Darkvision is a Transmutation spell for some reason.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Tidal Wave (an instantaneous elemental spell) is Conjuration, but Wall of Water (an ongoing elemental spell) is Evocation; Ice Storm (an instantaneous elemental spell) is Evocation, while Sleet Storm (an ongoing elemental spell) is Conjuration. I'd argue all four of these should be Conjuration - unlike fire, which blurs the line between energy and stuff, water and ice are very clearly stuff - but at the very least, one of these pairs should be flipped.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">For that matter, Wind Wall and Whirlwind are Evocation (those make sense: wind is not stuff), while Control Winds is.....Transmutation? Why?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Barkskin is Transmutation, but Stoneskin is Abjuration. (Based on spell descriptions, the latter should be the one to change: it's not a case of different effects that happen to have similar names, Stoneskin is literally described as altering the flesh of the target.)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Bit more subjective, but imo, Necromancy spells that are just "blasts of energy that deal necrotic damage" should be Evocation spells. (Honestly, I think Necromancy is just redundant as a distinct school of magic, but that moves beyond the topic of the thread.)</li> </ul></blockquote>

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