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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ketser" data-source="post: 6559476" data-attributes="member: 66805">In my games they are pretty much a wizard only things. They are the way how the eight great philosophies of wizardry categorize magic, but outside that and related school abilities there is no mechanical effect.In fact the members of different philosophies or traditions even argue over things like in what school a spell or magical effect belongs. For example there is a long argument about are healing spells necromancy or some other school, some conjurers are even saying that mage armor is more conjuration then abjuration <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Magic is in my personal campaign setting a bit more varied and complex to be separated just into eight schools. With detect magic they get a few words about the nature of the spell, instead of school, although  it tends to carry a bit risk of spoiling what spell comes from a  trap or what magic item they just found (we use the harder identification variant rule). SOmetimes i want a additional arcana check for that reason.</blockquote>