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<blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 9512903" data-attributes="member: 42856">Colour me intrigued by your irritating player. Do you mind sharing how he tried to used the word of the rule against Eberron setting? That FR scholars call their interface the Weave and say it's linked to Mystra instead of their left shoe doesn't invalidate that Eberron scholars concurs its a field created by the Ring of Siberys, that arcane magic is directly modifying this field to create effect and that divine magic is either a direct access to the field (when you're worshipping your left shoe) or a standardized set of methods to use a belief pool to access this field (set of method that may or may not have been devised by a god). It only tells us that FR scholars are very ignorant when it comes to other worlds and would be dumbfounded that magic works without Mystra if they planeshifted to Eberron.On a more general point, I agree that the whole passage isn't providing any rule, so is probably best left outside of a rulebook, as magic working is best explained in a setting book on one hand, and this passage doesn't explain anything on the other hand. So it's quite close to a waste of ink.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jfdlsjfd, post: 9512903, member: 42856"] Colour me intrigued by your irritating player. Do you mind sharing how he tried to used the word of the rule against Eberron setting? That FR scholars call their interface the Weave and say it's linked to Mystra instead of their left shoe doesn't invalidate that Eberron scholars concurs its a field created by the Ring of Siberys, that arcane magic is directly modifying this field to create effect and that divine magic is either a direct access to the field (when you're worshipping your left shoe) or a standardized set of methods to use a belief pool to access this field (set of method that may or may not have been devised by a god). It only tells us that FR scholars are very ignorant when it comes to other worlds and would be dumbfounded that magic works without Mystra if they planeshifted to Eberron. On a more general point, I agree that the whole passage isn't providing any rule, so is probably best left outside of a rulebook, as magic working is best explained in a setting book on one hand, and this passage doesn't explain anything on the other hand. So it's quite close to a waste of ink. [/QUOTE]

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