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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8859203" data-attributes="member: 7006">School are just categories of the types of spells.&nbsp; No different than the categories of the types of monsters.&nbsp; They exist because people like categories and categorizing things, so that we can more quickly guesstimate what things will do or how they will behave, and how we can react to them.The decisions of how to categorize a group of things is really about usefulness and understanding... and the same holds true for spells.&nbsp; We have these 8 schools because a few types of spells have very specific methods and identities that can be lumped together so we can all learn quickly &quot;these spells do THIS kind of thing&quot;... and then the others ones can be put together into other somewhat arbitrary piles just to give them a place as well.&nbsp; And by doing so... we can see what spells fall into what schools and thus tell at a glance what the spell most likely can do.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 8859203, member: 7006"] School are just categories of the types of spells. No different than the categories of the types of monsters. They exist because people like categories and categorizing things, so that we can more quickly guesstimate what things will do or how they will behave, and how we can react to them. The decisions of how to categorize a group of things is really about usefulness and understanding... and the same holds true for spells. We have these 8 schools because a few types of spells have very specific methods and identities that can be lumped together so we can all learn quickly "these spells do THIS kind of thing"... and then the others ones can be put together into other somewhat arbitrary piles just to give them a place as well. And by doing so... we can see what spells fall into what schools and thus tell at a glance what the spell most likely can do. [/QUOTE]

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