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ParanoidObsessive posted...

I'd say dark fantasy has become worse. Though the absolute worst may be modern urban fantasy.

Arcane magic in D&D is basically this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaumaturgy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermetic_Order_of_the_Golden_Dawn

Also, there are more mechanistic explanations for how it works (depending on the setting) if you actually read the books, but that would require you to actually read the things you're complaining about, and no one does that anymore.

I can accept liquid-soft explanations for magic as long as it's non-zero...

For DnD, I kinda reverse engineered a thought based on how magic scrolls work. You don't need to know magic to invoke a scroll, only need the magical literacy to do so (Thief, for example); and since magic there is based on memorization and a spell gets forgotten after casting... I figured it's some sort of forming a perfect image of the same contents as a scroll, which when done so, can be invoked the same way AS a scroll.... basically, your brain is a scroll and once invoked bursts into flames... errrr, well, micro brain flames. ... the paper of Scrolls themselves don't typically hold any power, it's all about the invokation; ... which comes from, somewhere I guess,

At least that's how it used to be when scrolls were magical tools and could be used by ANY magical tool user even if they didn't know magic