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General / Re: Plans for the Upcoming weeks
« on: April 27, 2016, 10:38:39 am »In the above, you mention seven major schools of magic, but i only count 6 in the above example. Your spell + 2 compatible + 2 incompatible + neutral divination. Is this deliberate?I apologize, I worded the first post poorly so let me clarify. What I meant to say was that each school of magic is aligned with two other schools and opposed by two other schools. For example the school of Evocation is aligned with Conjuration (both can create matter) and also with Illusion (both can create energy). However, Conjuration is not aligned with Illusion, as one deals with physical objects and the other with hallucinations. It's worth noting that not being aligned is not the same as being opposed. An example of opposing schools are Conjuration (creating life, positive energy) and Necromancy (using death, negative energy).
Determining if schools are aligned or opposed (compatible and incompatible) relates to the principles and methods by which a school practices magic. Different schools may have similar magics, but the method by which the end result is achieved defines a school. The school of Enchantment uses subtle magical manipulations to alter the properties of existing objects; these methods oppose those of Evocation and Conjuration which favor forceful creation of things.
There are 8 schools of magic, but divination (excluding greater) is just basic functional magic ie: magical identification, detecting magic, reading magics. Greater divination could potentially be aligned with/against the other schools, but it's quite difficult to oppose it beyond semantics and as such it is left out of the web. While lesser divination constitutes basic wizardly skills, greater divination and its combat spells act as a neutral form of basic damage attack. Obviously if greater divination spells were left at their true power in the game it would break the negation mechanic, so greater divination spells will be weaker in raw damage than spells from the 7 other schools. However an experienced magus can still use divination in combat to great effectiveness.