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Message: <blockquote data-quote="El Mahdi" data-source="post: 5334469" data-attributes="member: 59506">As a player, I'm fine with the premise of the system or game we happen to be playing in. But, when I DM, I prefer to use my houseruled system for everything. Any adventure or genre I'm using, I'll adapt it to my system or my system to it. But as concerns magic and your questions, here's my answers: I prefer a singular unified magic system. Magic is simply the mind focusing and manipulating the energies of the universe. Sources like Arcane, Divine, and Psionic, simply define where that energy comes from. But in the end, the energy and what it does is the same...whether Arcane, Divine, or Psionic. I despise Vancian magic.  (edit): At least unless it was in a campaign based on The Dying Earth series.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  In generic fantasy though, IMO it doesn't make logical sense, and simply stands out as a huge gamist construct to me. (end edit) I prefer a mostly at-will type system, so that magic works more like The Force in the Star Wars movies (but not in the RPG books). Magic is prevalent and rare.  Prevalent in that it's everywhere, it's the very fabric of the Universe. Rare in that very few people ever learn to sense it, let alone manipulate it. Magic is both a painstaking thing to learn to use, and an accessable thing. It's accesable in that a player character can learn it and use it in just as equitable a manner as a Warrior can learn and use their combat skills. But, as far as my campaign world, Magic Users are extremely rare (so rare that they are mostly considered Myth). Magic can be both Earth-shattering and subtle, both benign and malevolant...based entirely on the individual caster. To a magic user, magic is an art and a science. Magic has mystery even to a caster, but also has a science and methodology to it's use. However, to a non-magic user, magic is completely mysterious. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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