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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MerricB" data-source="post: 2510374" data-attributes="member: 3586">It's not just intrigue, mind you. When you read Louise Cooper, you don't get mad that the magic system isn't that of Piers Anthony. Nor should you get mad when D&D Magic isn't the same as Terry Pratchett's!D&D, from the very start, has not been limited to the imagination of the authors who most influenced it, being something different: a synthesis of elements, old and new, that made a very good game.Furthermore, there are four new magic (sub-)systems for D&D coming out in the next few months. (Magic of Incarnum; Tome of Magic: Pact, Shadow and True Name Magic). We already have the psionics system.It is quite possible to replace regular clerics and wizards with only the psionic systems at the moment - there will be more choices soon!This does not detract from the necessity of having a base system, which for many reasons, partly due to tradition, but partly because it works, I think should remain the Vancian one we have today (although it has been relaxed for classes like the Sorcerer).Cheers!</blockquote>