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<blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 9158589" data-attributes="member: 7030563"><p>I don't even think these are talking about the same thing. It is like saying there is something between smoke and oranges.</p><p></p><p>Mundane is normal. Supernatural is unatural, unreal. Nothing supernatural actually exists in the real world, but supernatural can be in abundance in the game world.</p><p></p><p>In a high fantasy, high magic world (like Halrua in the Forgotten Realms) low level magics are both mundane and supernatural. The Prestidigition spell for example is supernatural and in such a setting mundane.</p><p></p><p>Potions of healing, also supernatural, and available in every adventuring store and thereby mundane (at least for those with the gold to purchase them). Smokepowder in Ferun is supernatural, becuase it is specifically magic, While on another world gunpower, which does the exact same thing functionally, is not supernatural. Depending on your specific campaign and the rarity of firearms either of these things could be mundane or not mundane.</p><p></p><p>If you are saying you want a supernatural martial then you are saying you want something like the Rune Knight, Echo Knight or Psi Warrior - something well outside the bounds of the natural world, with little or no regard for physics, whether or not those "supernatural" elements and abilities are powerful. Other subclasses also have supernatural elements but these are the three most obvious for the fighter.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ECMO3, post: 9158589, member: 7030563"] I don't even think these are talking about the same thing. It is like saying there is something between smoke and oranges. Mundane is normal. Supernatural is unatural, unreal. Nothing supernatural actually exists in the real world, but supernatural can be in abundance in the game world. In a high fantasy, high magic world (like Halrua in the Forgotten Realms) low level magics are both mundane and supernatural. The Prestidigition spell for example is supernatural and in such a setting mundane. Potions of healing, also supernatural, and available in every adventuring store and thereby mundane (at least for those with the gold to purchase them). Smokepowder in Ferun is supernatural, becuase it is specifically magic, While on another world gunpower, which does the exact same thing functionally, is not supernatural. Depending on your specific campaign and the rarity of firearms either of these things could be mundane or not mundane. If you are saying you want a supernatural martial then you are saying you want something like the Rune Knight, Echo Knight or Psi Warrior - something well outside the bounds of the natural world, with little or no regard for physics, whether or not those "supernatural" elements and abilities are powerful. Other subclasses also have supernatural elements but these are the three most obvious for the fighter. [/QUOTE]
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