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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 3200121" data-attributes="member: 2067">Lacking rigor, perhaps, but not nessecariy lacking consideration. I'm not trying to claim that people should represent real-world belief systems, but I am claiming that approaching fantasy magic as real people have approached magic (e.g.: in many and contradictory ways) is something that carries much more weight with me, and makes the world more realistic to me than there being one overarching system of immutable magical laws.Right. Why shuoldn't it be as convoluted and inconsistent as our own real-world applications of it? Certainly the monstrous ecology is, why not the magical physics? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />My argument is not that all real world belief systems should be translated, merely that approaching fantasy magic as real people have approached real magic is a valid, richly detailed, and amazingly satisfying way of approaching it. Messy goes hand in hand with fantasy. Again, perhaps it's Planescape's influence, but I have no problem with all grand theories about magic being mutually exclusive and all correct because, in the end, I don't care, as a GM, where you think your ability to cast Cure Light Wounds comes from, and see no benefit in limiting it to only *really* coming from one place.</blockquote>

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