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<blockquote data-quote="Cap'n Kobold" data-source="post: 7641586" data-attributes="member: 6802951">I believe that Mistwell meant that the wizard has training in the practical application of one of the subsections covered by Arcana, while the Rogue is a pure theoretician. All that time the wizard spend in exacting training to get the exact gestures and intonations of spells correct, the Rogue spent on pure research.Hence the &quot;Field tech&quot; designation for the wizard: They can actually apply the knowledge that they have training in the engineering and the use of equipment (spells) and have a grounding in the other aspects of the Arcana skill.And the &quot;Professor&quot; designation of the rogue denotes that while they have read more about the habits of Dragons or the theory of thaum particle slood dynamics, they don't know the engineering of or how to operate a piece of equipment (spell) that applies their knowledge of the &quot;spells&quot; fraction of the arcana skill.A professor knows more about the behaviour of semiconductors at absolute zero, but a field tech can actually operate a compute to get it to do something.If a wizard wants to spend the time/effort needed to both learn to cast a wide variety of spells and to learn much more about the other aspects of the arcana skill, then there are a couple of potential feats that could be allowed.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cap'n Kobold, post: 7641586, member: 6802951"] I believe that Mistwell meant that the wizard has training in the practical application of one of the subsections covered by Arcana, while the Rogue is a pure theoretician. All that time the wizard spend in exacting training to get the exact gestures and intonations of spells correct, the Rogue spent on pure research. Hence the "Field tech" designation for the wizard: They can actually apply the knowledge that they have training in the engineering and the use of equipment (spells) and have a grounding in the other aspects of the Arcana skill. And the "Professor" designation of the rogue denotes that while they have read more about the habits of Dragons or the theory of thaum particle slood dynamics, they don't know the engineering of or how to operate a piece of equipment (spell) that [I]applies [/I]their knowledge of the "spells" fraction of the arcana skill. A professor knows more about the behaviour of semiconductors at absolute zero, but a field tech can actually operate a compute to get it to [B][I]do[/I][/B] something. If a wizard wants to spend the time/effort needed to both learn to cast a wide variety of spells [I]and [/I]to learn much more about the other aspects of the arcana skill, then there are a couple of potential feats that could be allowed. [/QUOTE]

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