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<blockquote data-quote="fuindordm" data-source="post: 3222201" data-attributes="member: 5435">The game conceit is that while wizards share a common magical language, they don't all use it in the same way.&nbsp; That's why read magic or Use Magic Device is necessary to use a found scroll, for example.To take a real-world analogy, I know in principle how to calculate the trajectories of photons swirling around a black hole.&nbsp; I had never done it before my second postdoc, however (it wasn't in my spellbook).&nbsp; I could read a paper or book on the subject and understand it, but that's still a far cry from working it out yourself, or writing a program to do it for you (I can read it in someone else's spellbook, but still have to think hard to put into practice, and might make mistakes).&nbsp; After my postdoc I had read many papers on the subject and written my own program to plot the trajectories (now it is in my spellbook), so if I had to do this again (prepare the spell) I could use someone else's notes more easily.Ben</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fuindordm, post: 3222201, member: 5435"] The game conceit is that while wizards share a common magical language, they don't all use it in the same way. That's why read magic or Use Magic Device is necessary to use a found scroll, for example. To take a real-world analogy, I know in principle how to calculate the trajectories of photons swirling around a black hole. I had never done it before my second postdoc, however (it wasn't in my spellbook). I could read a paper or book on the subject and understand it, but that's still a far cry from working it out yourself, or writing a program to do it for you (I can read it in someone else's spellbook, but still have to think hard to put into practice, and might make mistakes). After my postdoc I had read many papers on the subject and written my own program to plot the trajectories (now it is in my spellbook), so if I had to do this again (prepare the spell) I could use someone else's notes more easily. Ben [/QUOTE]

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