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Message: <blockquote data-quote="prosfilaes" data-source="post: 5368338" data-attributes="member: 40166">I see the point, but I note that you use the word energy, which is potent with scientific overtones. Part of this is D&D magic. In Diane Duane's "So You Want to be a Wizard" series, the magic varies on this axis, but at some points it's about talking to things; if you want a staircase made out of air, part of it is reminding that air of when it was out in cold space frozen into comets, and encouraging it to revert to that for a moment. If you want to form a gate between your fridge and someone else's to grab lunch, part of it is calming the ruffled feathers of your fridge that's upset because it's empty. You can't effectively use magic against cancer, because cancer is living cells, and life wants to live, and all the power in the world isn't going to talk a bunch of cancer cells down.Or another example goes back to modern magic theory. If you had to invoke the laws of contagion and similarity, it wouldn't seem as scientific. Instead of pointing your <s>gun</s> wand at someone and <s>pulling the trigger</s> saying the command word to hurt them, if you had to have some piece of them, or something they wore or even just a doll that bore some similarity to them to affect them, it wouldn't feel nearly as magical. The voodoo doll theory, in crude layman's terms.</blockquote>