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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 7810377" data-attributes="member: 22779">And thus the Primacy of Magic  It's built right into what you are saying.  Magic should do magical things and everyone else who isn't using magic CAN'T do anything that magic can do.  Full stop.  Thus Magic is Prime.  That's the essence of D&D.You're not actually disagreeing with me here.  I totally agree with what you are saying.  The essence of D&D is that anything outside the realm of what a real life human could do MUST be achieved by magic.  Only magic should do magical things, after all.  I mean, good grief, we Raise the Dead in real life every day now with modern medical technologies.  Whose to say that our fantasy world doesn't have herbal medicines that, coated in a bit of chocolate, wouldn't do the same thing?  Maybe he's only mostly dead.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />But, in D&D, the answer is a flat no.  You can ONLY do this with magic.  It MUST be magic.  Thus, the essence of D&D is the Primacy of Magic.</blockquote>