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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8094230" data-attributes="member: 6801228">You forget the &quot;in my opinion&quot; part of that. Because, I have often seen in the text and various sources, about people being tested for &quot;magical aptitude&quot; before being allowed to study magic. Or with them discovering a &quot;latent power&quot; that allows them to cast magic. In many of the DnD novels magic is described as an internal force.Also, see what you did there? What does it take to cast spells? &quot;because of the mental focus required to shape those external energies.&nbsp; It takes a lot of willpower and focus to cast arcane spells&quot;. Sounds a lot like... psionics. Intense mental focus and willpower. Sure it could. Fairly easily. Let me ask you a question, what would happen if the diety in charge of defining air and its movement was killed? Would the air inside your body work the same way? Because there is air outside and inside your body. At the same time. You can't talk or sing if you have no air inside your body, and you can't tale or sing if there is no air outside your body. Thus I see magic. Both internal and external. Because if it were purely external, then spell slots wouldn't be a thing. I would be like a Warlock. I can cast five spells, total, not three 3rd level, one second and a first level. The levels of slots must represent an internal reserve of energy, not the mental focus of moving external energy.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 8094230, member: 6801228"] You forget the "in my opinion" part of that. Because, I have often seen in the text and various sources, about people being tested for "magical aptitude" before being allowed to study magic. Or with them discovering a "latent power" that allows them to cast magic. In many of the DnD novels magic is described as an internal force. Also, see what you did there? What does it take to cast spells? "because of the mental focus required to shape those external energies. It takes a lot of willpower and focus to cast arcane spells". Sounds a lot like... psionics. Intense mental focus and willpower. Sure it could. Fairly easily. Let me ask you a question, what would happen if the diety in charge of defining air and its movement was killed? Would the air inside your body work the same way? Because there is air outside and inside your body. At the same time. You can't talk or sing if you have no air inside your body, and you can't tale or sing if there is no air outside your body. Thus I see magic. Both internal and external. Because if it were purely external, then spell slots wouldn't be a thing. I would be like a Warlock. I can cast five spells, total, not three 3rd level, one second and a first level. The levels of slots must represent an internal reserve of energy, not the mental focus of moving external energy. [/QUOTE]

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