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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9322168" data-attributes="member: 93670"><p>You may not know him by name, but you are almost certainly familiar with his work & it's a story worth hearing <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> Couple hundred years back a guy named Franz Mesmer went around studying & maybe learning various applications of tribal magic in africa & such. That led tohim grouping all of what he dubbed mesmerism & his theory of... I quote "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Mesmer#Animal_magnetism" target="_blank">Animal Magnitism</a>" . A lot of the things he came across <em>are</em> real things, but he was so hilariously wrong in his conclusions that he has single handedly provided us with centuries of crackpot pseudoscience & chicanery until more scientifically grounded people like Milton Erickson along with various professional stage magicians & such took the time to understand the how & why some of the actually useful parts things work. </p><p></p><p>With the actual clarification moving beyond "you've misunderstood the point [guess what it was]" I can say that I was aware of following along & understood the point. That point just happens to be one with severe flaws stemming from the idea that a PC who gets everything they need from the base class to stand shoulder to shoulder with christmas trees won't strap on rocket boots & crack the game over its knee the second it can start donning magical christmas tree elements of its own. The mundane nonmagical martial PC who keeps up with magically blessed buffed & christmas tree'd up d&d PC is a concept that is just as flawed as mesmer's ideas because it will obviously gain magic beyond the base class in play</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 9322168, member: 93670"] You may not know him by name, but you are almost certainly familiar with his work & it's a story worth hearing :) Couple hundred years back a guy named Franz Mesmer went around studying & maybe learning various applications of tribal magic in africa & such. That led tohim grouping all of what he dubbed mesmerism & his theory of... I quote "[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Mesmer#Animal_magnetism']Animal Magnitism[/URL]" . A lot of the things he came across [I]are[/I] real things, but he was so hilariously wrong in his conclusions that he has single handedly provided us with centuries of crackpot pseudoscience & chicanery until more scientifically grounded people like Milton Erickson along with various professional stage magicians & such took the time to understand the how & why some of the actually useful parts things work. With the actual clarification moving beyond "you've misunderstood the point [guess what it was]" I can say that I was aware of following along & understood the point. That point just happens to be one with severe flaws stemming from the idea that a PC who gets everything they need from the base class to stand shoulder to shoulder with christmas trees won't strap on rocket boots & crack the game over its knee the second it can start donning magical christmas tree elements of its own. The mundane nonmagical martial PC who keeps up with magically blessed buffed & christmas tree'd up d&d PC is a concept that is just as flawed as mesmer's ideas because it will obviously gain magic beyond the base class in play [/QUOTE]
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