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<blockquote data-quote="Kahuna Burger" data-source="post: 3038448" data-attributes="member: 8439">I see no problem with the idea of real &quot;hedge magics&quot; in a D&amp;D world. The Incantations in Unearthed Arcana Gave a mechanical model for such a thing, it just needs to be massively scaled down to the level of day to day commoner spells. Not everyone would put ranks in &quot;Knowledge : Hedge Magic&quot; and its uses would be too time comsuming and minor to have balance effects, but my answer to &quot;why doesn't everyone use magic?&quot; would be &quot;they do, it just doesn't have a big game effect.&quot; Or rather it can be conviniently used to explain away game rule artifacts.Why are there no rules for wound infection and injuries getting worse over time (aside from mortal wounds)? Because any character can run a white stone, birch stick or white feather in a pattern carrying fever out of the wound while reciting whichever version of the cleaning rhyme&nbsp; he was taught as a kid and the would will be cleansed. Why don't female PCs have to worry about &quot;women's issues&quot;? Because their moms taught them the simple ritual to control their fertility cycle same as their grandmothers before them. Everyone isn't a doctor, or a chemist, but plenty of people know that ginger can settle an upset stomache or hydrogen peroxide cleans up a tee shirt you got a nosebleed on. I think a magical world without little hedge magics is missing something, but luckily there's nothing unbalancing about including them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kahuna Burger, post: 3038448, member: 8439"] I see no problem with the idea of real "hedge magics" in a D&D world. The Incantations in Unearthed Arcana Gave a mechanical model for such a thing, it just needs to be massively scaled down to the level of day to day commoner spells. Not everyone would put ranks in "Knowledge : Hedge Magic" and its uses would be too time comsuming and minor to have balance effects, but my answer to "why doesn't everyone use magic?" would be "they do, it just doesn't have a big game effect." Or rather it can be conviniently used to explain away game rule artifacts. Why are there no rules for wound infection and injuries getting worse over time (aside from mortal wounds)? Because any character can run a white stone, birch stick or white feather in a pattern carrying fever out of the wound while reciting whichever version of the cleaning rhyme he was taught as a kid and the would will be cleansed. Why don't female PCs have to worry about "women's issues"? Because their moms taught them the simple ritual to control their fertility cycle same as their grandmothers before them. Everyone isn't a doctor, or a chemist, but plenty of people know that ginger can settle an upset stomache or hydrogen peroxide cleans up a tee shirt you got a nosebleed on. I think a magical world without little hedge magics is missing something, but luckily there's nothing unbalancing about including them. [/QUOTE]

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