D&D 5E Psionics in Tasha

[WayOfTheFourElements]

Their gods do the math for them. Remember clerics and druids don't do the work, their gods GIVE the magic via the portfolios.

Bard Music has the formula hidden in the notes. Wasn't there a UA Bard that stated all this?

What about a cleric devoted to the Buddhism or another religion without gods, angles, or other divine beings?

 

[Aldarc]

Their gods do the math for them. Remember clerics and druids don't do the work, their gods GIVE the magic via the portfolios.

Bard Music has the formula hidden in the notes. Wasn't there a UA Bard that stated all this?

I was not aware that druids had to have gods. How do monks do magic?

 

[Minigiant]

What about a cleric devoted to the Buddhism or another religion without gods, angles, or other divine beings?

Usually clerics of religions without gods can't cast spells.
But they can get around it via bastardized Truenaming.

 

[Minigiant]

How do monks do magic?

Must Minigiant explain how spells work?

D&D spellcasting runs on the "Language of the universe" aka True Names.

Anything you say in the Language just happens.

The problem is the Universe hates when you speak the language.
Only gods, beings with a divine portfolio, can say the language unfettered.

When Jane the Cleric prays to her god for the daylight, her god can say "Jane can cast daylight".
Now the entire universe warps around Jane and she can use spell slots to cast daylight.

Wizards don't have a god speaking True Names for them. They must say it themselves. Unfortunately they are mortal an can't.
So wizards get around it by speaking several bastardized dialects of True Names.
Hocus Pocus is a drunken cockney true names.
Somatic gestures is True name sign language.
And for some reason the universe associates fire with bat poo so you must display it.

The last method is to be magical. By having magic into, you can subsitute your body, bones, and blood for the words you can't say but must.
Because Luke the sorcerer's great grandpappy was a fire dragon, he doesn't have to speak the "5 times ran through Google" word for fire when casting fireball.

 

[Aldarc]

I must have missed this in the PHB and DMG. Citations?

Also, isn't the nature of the Will and the Way that a psion does this with mind, body, and soul?

 

[WayOfTheFourElements]

Must Minigiant explain how spells work?

D&D spellcasting runs on the "Language of the universe" aka True Names.

Anything you say in the Language just happens.

The problem is the Universe hates when you speak the language.
Only gods, being with a divine portfolio, can say the language unfettered.

When Jane the Cleric prays to her god for the daylight, her god can say "Jane can cast daylight".
Now the entire universe warps around Jane and she can use spell slots to cast daylight.

Wizards don't have a god speaking True Names for them. They must say it themselves. Unfortunately they are mortal an can't.
So wizards get around it by speaking several bastardized dialects of True Names.
Hocus Pocus is a drunken cockney true names.
Somatic gestures is True name sign language.
And for some reason the universe associates fire with bat poo so you must display it.

The last method is to be magical. By having magic into, you can subsitute your body, bones, and blood for the words you can't say but must.
Because Luke the sorcerer's great grandpappy was a fire dragon, he doesn't have to speak the "5 times ran through Google" word for fire when casting fireball.

Cool idea. I'm glad this unified theory of magic works for your game : )

 

[Minigiant]

I must have missed this in the PHB and DMG. Citations?

Also, isn't the nature of the Will and the Way that a psion does this with mind, body, and soul?

PHB
51
56
99
112-113
201

D&D spells are a magic language

 

[Aldarc]

PHB
51
56
99
112-113
201

D&D spells are a magic language

Going through your citations, I think you are making the critical error of not exegeting from the text but, rather, eisegeting into the text here. Your whole "true name" thing, for example, is entirely absent in your citations.

 

[Minigiant]

Going through your citations, I think you are making the critical error of not exegeting from the text but, rather, eisegeting into the text here. Your whole "true name" thing, for example, is entirely absent in your citations.

The holes are filled by lore and text commonly shared by the community.

Deities grant cleric magic.
Wizards use complex rituals, gestures, and words to activate their magic.
Wizards don't need to speak the language of wizards they copy spells from so the language of wizards is universal.
Power Word Kill

 

[WayOfTheFourElements]

The holes are filled by lore and text commonly shared by the community.

Communities can wrong. See the flat worlder and anti-vaxer communities.