[UA] Writing new schools

[Greg Stolze]

>Your point of view assumes the would-be adept is
>studying the school because he wants to get magic.
>This is wrong because youíre describing old-school
>sorcery.
>
>ÖAdept-styled magic is not actually about the magic at
>all. Adepts are unhealthily obsessive about their
>focus obsession that eventually reality becomes
>schizophrenically loose enough to bend to the adepts
>wishes.

In the interest of playability, I'd insist that there are both types.
There are adepts for whom power is the end, and who are willing to be
obsessed to get it, and there are adepts for whom their obsession is an end
in itself, and who are certainly willing to tolerate the power which comes
as frosting on the biscuit.

-G.

I recently discovered something that accomplished the unlikely goal of
providing 10% of what I like about hot mustard, 35% of what I like about
candy, and 100% of what I like about booze.  It's called a "Fog Cutter,"
though that's a bit of a misnomer.  It would be more appropriate to name it
the "Reaction-Time Deadener" or the "Inhibition Loosener."  And it comes
with a tiny parasol.

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