Vaalingrade
Legend
Except it does because in the context of his world, mutants are natural, and the Crimson Gem of Cyrorrak is not.That doesn't make him correct!
That is also not the definition of magic in our world. I am trying to impress upon you that 'magical' is a subset of 'fantastic', not an equivalent. The direct and specific problem I have is the reduction of every rectangle to a square.The X-gene is fiction and produces impossible results. Doing the impossible is the expectation of magic. It may not be defined as magic in the fiction, but it is indistinguishable outside the fiction.
It doesn't scare me, it angers me that is it being misused to the detriment to the game and the genre by narrowing everything down to 'magic' and in the process making magic itself boring.Question: why is the word magic or magical so scary for you.
Yes! A correct one! An accurate one! A meaningfully distinct one!Would you prefer a different word?
And they are misusing it in a way that robs it and the non-magical fantastic and the non-magical supernatural of their meaning.Do you realize when people say it is magic / supernatural / extraordinary they are simply talking about phenomena that are impossible in RL.
The word does matter because tis is being used in such a way as to exclude the actual correct words and the actual useful distinction we no longer have in D&D because of it.The word doesn't matter, it is simply a shortcut for: something that has no rational, scientific, or logical explanation, i.e. impossible.