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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rasyr" data-source="post: 2719412" data-attributes="member: 2855">To each their own. <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" />To me, I like magic being a skill. Magic is supposed to be mysterious and dangerous, yet in D&D the only time a Wizard or any other spell user has the slightest chance of miscasting a spell is is they are wearing armor. (Note: I am talking about casting a spell, not about whether or not the spell affects the target)IMHO, there should always be a chance of failure, and there should always be a chance for extraordinairy success as well.In combat you can miss, or you can score a critical and do double damage, but in magic, every Wizard of a given level will cast every known spell with the same level of proficiency.As to your definition of "skill", I would like to submit that it is stated that spells are "learned". If you learn something, then it is a skill. In this case, it would be a skill in manipulating/directing divine and arcance (i.e. supernatural) energies to create specific effects, but it is still a skill by any definition of the word. D&D just make success in this automatic (unless you are wearing armor) most all of the time.</blockquote>