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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quasqueton" data-source="post: 1148710" data-attributes="member: 3854">The "logic" that I find bothersome is the concept that sorcerers don't study or train in any way to get and hone their abilities.Note that knowledge (arcana) and spellcraft are both on the sorcerer's skill list. Does that knowledge also come out of thin air because the sorcerer has an innate talent for magic? No, they get tutilage and training from someone.If sorcerers had truly and totally innate spell abilities, they would use spell-like abilities, not spells.Sorcerers have to train and practice for their abilities just like any other class and their abilities. A fighter doesn't just suddenly cleave through a foe into another without training. A cleric doesn't need a spellbook to gain spells, but he has to train to learn how to cast them. A rogue doesn't just start dodging fireballs one day without some practice and training. [Most of this training is done off screen or before the start of the campaign.]Spell casting just *comes* differently to a sorcerer than a wizard. But they cast the same spells, with the same "magic laws". The fireball the sorcerer casts is the same one the wizard casts -- it's just that the sorcerer understands and can evoke the magic through force of will instead of through memorization/preparation.Quasqueton</blockquote>