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<blockquote data-quote="Crimson Longinus" data-source="post: 9257818" data-attributes="member: 7025508">Like I said, it is fiction, so you can have it work however you like. I just feel that if in the fiction a random peasant can learn to cast fireball without any other magical training, then this should also be a thing that is available to PCs. As a feat or something. Like we are not even talking about some super unique individual with unlikely and rare to be repeated backstory, it is just that they were taught the thing and learned it. I think basic character creation should be able to handle such common thing in the setting, and if it can't, why the hell we are using it for this setting, where such things are possible?Like I have in my setting basically commoners that can do some magic. What they effectively have is magic initiate feat. Sure, it is just some cantrips and a first level spell, but still a cool thing when most people cannot do magic at all. Any more magic requires tapping on some of the defined metaphysical sources of magic, which means taking a caster class or something close to it. (This is broad stokes stuff for me, I don't worry about every bonus or feature.) And yes, this is me intentionally writing fiction that aligns with the rules. I do this because I want them to be directly connected. If the rule doesn't fit the fiction I want, then I change the rule. But I don't want the fiction and the rules to become unmoored from each other.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crimson Longinus, post: 9257818, member: 7025508"] Like I said, it is fiction, so you can have it work however you like. I just feel that if in the fiction a random peasant can learn to cast fireball without any other magical training, then this should also be a thing that is available to PCs. As a feat or something. Like we are not even talking about some super unique individual with unlikely and rare to be repeated backstory, it is just that they were taught the thing and learned it. I think basic character creation should be able to handle such common thing in the setting, and if it can't, why the hell we are using it for this setting, where such things are possible? Like I have in my setting basically commoners that can do some magic. What they effectively have is magic initiate feat. Sure, it is just some cantrips and a first level spell, but still a cool thing when most people cannot do magic at all. Any more magic requires tapping on some of the defined metaphysical sources of magic, which means taking a caster class or something close to it. (This is broad stokes stuff for me, I don't worry about every bonus or feature.) And yes, this is me intentionally writing fiction that aligns with the rules. I do this because I want them to be directly connected. If the rule doesn't fit the fiction I want, then I change the rule. But I don't want the fiction and the rules to become unmoored from each other. [/QUOTE]

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