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Why UA Psionics are never going to work in 5e.
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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 7979625" data-attributes="member: 6801228"><p>Well, and it depends on a lot of things once we start looking at various references. </p><p></p><p>Sure, a lot of systems have "you're a wizard Harry" to explain why some people can do magic and others can't. But sometimes it really is just specialized knowledge. The Kingkiller Chronicle after all has it were it is simply a skill that is incredibly difficult to learn and the only teachers usually charge massive sums of money for the right to try and learn from them. </p><p></p><p>The actual reason most stories lean on the "you have to be born with it" though is the fact that we understand the value of education at this stage in history, so not learning something like magic makes no sense. </p><p></p><p>I mean, it is hard for your wizard to be special is everyone can do magic (hard, not impossible, plenty of settings and stories do it) but if anyone could put in a few years of study to learn magic, we naturally ask, why isn't everyone doing that? Why aren't there more magic users. So, it is really a narrative shortcut rather than something that makes magic less scientific. After all, usually after being "born" with magic, they go and do a lot of book learning and mathematics for proper circles and all that jazz. The learning aspect is just gated behind being born special to limit the number of magic users</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 7979625, member: 6801228"] Well, and it depends on a lot of things once we start looking at various references. Sure, a lot of systems have "you're a wizard Harry" to explain why some people can do magic and others can't. But sometimes it really is just specialized knowledge. The Kingkiller Chronicle after all has it were it is simply a skill that is incredibly difficult to learn and the only teachers usually charge massive sums of money for the right to try and learn from them. The actual reason most stories lean on the "you have to be born with it" though is the fact that we understand the value of education at this stage in history, so not learning something like magic makes no sense. I mean, it is hard for your wizard to be special is everyone can do magic (hard, not impossible, plenty of settings and stories do it) but if anyone could put in a few years of study to learn magic, we naturally ask, why isn't everyone doing that? Why aren't there more magic users. So, it is really a narrative shortcut rather than something that makes magic less scientific. After all, usually after being "born" with magic, they go and do a lot of book learning and mathematics for proper circles and all that jazz. The learning aspect is just gated behind being born special to limit the number of magic users [/QUOTE]
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