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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 7626811" data-attributes="member: 6779196"><p>I’m pretty sure it’s intentionally ambiguous. I like that about magic in middle earth, it’s subtle, and can almost always be read either as truly magical, or as mundane practice performed ritualistically. Terms like “spells” are used, but almost always to describe magic employed by other peoples, poorly understood by the observer who would call it a spell. What Sam might consider weaving magic into the elven rope, the elves themselves would probably just see as making good rope. It’s a very cool way for magic to work in a fantasy setting. But it doesn’t make me think “this character would need spellcasting to work in D&D.” The only characters I would think that about are Maiar.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Fair enough, I guess. It’s just weird to me that the thought process is so common that rangers are supposed to be like Aragorn, Aragorn is good at healing in ways that are probably not entirely mundane, therefore rangers need to have spellcasting. I agree with those who have observed that this smacks of “non-casters aren’t allowed to do cool things.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 7626811, member: 6779196"] I’m pretty sure it’s intentionally ambiguous. I like that about magic in middle earth, it’s subtle, and can almost always be read either as truly magical, or as mundane practice performed ritualistically. Terms like “spells” are used, but almost always to describe magic employed by other peoples, poorly understood by the observer who would call it a spell. What Sam might consider weaving magic into the elven rope, the elves themselves would probably just see as making good rope. It’s a very cool way for magic to work in a fantasy setting. But it doesn’t make me think “this character would need spellcasting to work in D&D.” The only characters I would think that about are Maiar. Fair enough, I guess. It’s just weird to me that the thought process is so common that rangers are supposed to be like Aragorn, Aragorn is good at healing in ways that are probably not entirely mundane, therefore rangers need to have spellcasting. I agree with those who have observed that this smacks of “non-casters aren’t allowed to do cool things.” [/QUOTE]
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