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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5824855" data-attributes="member: 58197">This is an idea that I seem to see a lot, and I don't understand it at all. Why is it that if it's a nonmagical ability, the rules must support everyone being able to do it, but only wizards can do magic? That makes no sense.I can't fly a fighter jet. If you put me behind the controls of a fighter jet, I will fail to fly it every single time, because I've never learned to fly fighter jets and it's not something you can do untrained. Why do the rules need to model the theoretical one-in-fifty-bazillion possibility that I might hit all the right buttons in the right order at the right instants?Likewise, I can try to do some elaborate dual-sword attack that disarms one opponent, skewers another, and then throws the second into a third. But it's never going to work if I haven't had a ton of practice fighting with two swords. Swordfighting ain't easy.And on the other hand, if it absolutely must be possible to attempt any martial exploit, how come wizards are exempt? If Zelda the Sneaky has a good Intelligence score, and she's been fighting alongside Zardoom the Almighty for five years watching him throw spell after spell, why can't she try to imitate the words and gestures and focus her mind just right, and have a chance to pull off a magic missile?</blockquote>