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<blockquote data-quote="Warmaster Horus" data-source="post: 7272661" data-attributes="member: 6785438">I beg to differ.&nbsp; Couldn't a person who has one of the most fantastic mortal intellects in the world (Int 20) and having spent their entire lives studying magic and the arcane (so proficient in spellcasting and Arcana) have a good idea of the various schools and types of spellcasting?&nbsp; Wouldn't they have spent their lives pouring over tomes that describe just these sort of things?&nbsp; Isn't one reason they are adventurers is to travel the world seeking this sort of knowledge?&nbsp; It seems patronizing to say that masters of a craft don't recognize variations in their art.&nbsp; It's like saying Bobby Fischer wouldn't be able to tell a Benko Gambit from a Grünfeld Defence, or Itzhak Perlman couldn't detect a flat note from an orchestra playing the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35.&nbsp; I know it's fashionable to denigrate PCs as bumbling murder hobos, but we should from time to time appreciate that they can indeed be quite good at what they do.So I'm in favor of challenge.&nbsp; But it should be tough and fair.&nbsp; Hand waving it with statements like, &quot;Your primitive intellect wouldn't understand alloys and compositions and things with... molecular structures.&quot; just seems so not D&amp;D.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Warmaster Horus, post: 7272661, member: 6785438"] I beg to differ. Couldn't a person who has one of the most fantastic mortal intellects in the world (Int 20) and having spent their entire lives studying magic and the arcane (so proficient in spellcasting and Arcana) have a good idea of the various schools and types of spellcasting? Wouldn't they have spent their lives pouring over tomes that describe just these sort of things? Isn't one reason they are adventurers is to travel the world seeking this sort of knowledge? It seems patronizing to say that masters of a craft don't recognize variations in their art. It's like saying Bobby Fischer wouldn't be able to tell a Benko Gambit from a Grünfeld Defence, or Itzhak Perlman couldn't detect a flat note from an orchestra playing the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35. I know it's fashionable to denigrate PCs as bumbling murder hobos, but we should from time to time appreciate that they can indeed be quite good at what they do. So I'm in favor of challenge. But it should be tough and fair. Hand waving it with statements like, "Your primitive intellect wouldn't understand alloys and compositions and things with... molecular structures." just seems so [I]not[/I] D&D. [/QUOTE]

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