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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Soulsong" data-source="post: 3649156" data-attributes="member: 15704">I can definately see this way of thinking.  Many like the idea of complete and symetrical school opposition for game balance or aesthetic issues.  I definately see benefits in being able to choose personal opposition schools.  I am not sure I see the division between "strong" and "weak" schools, and might be inclined to just throw it completely open if I were to go this way.A middle ground might be to acknowledge certain solid oppositions, but not require schools to have them.  Perhaps Divination/Enchantment and Evocation/Abjuration are in opposition, but Conjuration and I am aware that these kinds of associations are reaches and only general at best, but they may have flavor benefits within certain types of campaigns/cosmologies for various reasons.For instance:Perhaps a DM wants to establish an evolution/development of Magic within his cosmology like follows:1) Evocation appears first (creation)2) Conjuration appears as a form of Evocation that also effects time and space (allowing time travel/flow)3) Abjuration appears as a combination of Evocation and Conjuration (with a different temporal component)4) Transmutation appears as a combination of Evocation and Conjuration that effects physical properties (allowing sentience)5) Enchantment appears as a combination of Evocation, Conjuration, and Transmutation that effects other properties (perhaps allowing souls and magic items?). 6) Divination appears as a combination of Evocation, Conjuration, and Transmutation with the arrival and development of sentience.or maybe some other evolution.  Perhaps these associations were either dependant on, requisite for, or otherwise coincedental to the formation of certain elemental or transitive planes, etc... in the cosmology.</blockquote>

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