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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 7880406" data-attributes="member: 6704184">I boil water every day. Tea, coffee, soup, hot chocolate, or even cleaning certain things without harsh chemical compounds. The process of water turning to steam as it gains thermal energy is physics. The fact that I’m not a physicist doesn’t make it any less physics. My point was that in such a world, science is a type of magic. So, the average person will know that water boils because of the magical process by which a liquid turns to a gas when it’s store of fire energy, which is a magical energy type, is increased by a given amount. Dispel Magic doesn’t interfere with natural magical processes, that is already true in normal dnd. Dispel Magic doesn’t make a dragon less able to fly or breath fire. It does nothing to a sprite. It doesn’t unravel the magic that keeps an air elemental alive and coherent. It can’t make a manifest zone in Eberron stop being a Manifest Zone or make a fountain of healing into a normal spring. Detect Magic detects some of those things, but not all. It doesn’t tell you that a dragon or elemental is nearby. It may detect the fountain, but probably not because it isn’t under a magical effect, and it isn’t a spell or magic item. It’s just water that has always been magical. It’s part of the world. So why would a wizard or priest doubt that physics is magic? In a world created by magic, physics objectively is magic.</blockquote>

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