ELEMENTAL COLLEGES
From Magic System Designer's Notes:
These adepts use mana to penetrate their respective elemental planes releasing power stored there and altering their element on this plane.
The DragonQuest rules don't comment on this but many of the spells in these colleges create a quantity - usually temporarily - of their respective elements. I've always assumed that in most cases the spell is actually pulling those elements from the elemental planes into the Adept's own plane. At the end of the spells duration the conjured material returns back to original plane.
For me the Elemental Colleges, except for Fire Magics, have never felt particularly "elemental". I expect them to focus more on the manipulation of the elements than on interacting with what fauna might inhabit that element.
There are some inconsistencies between the Colleges as well. Air, Water and Fire have Binding as a General Knowledge ritual and Summon/Control of Elementals as a Special Knowledge ritual. Earth however has Binding as a Special Knowledge ritual and Summon/Control as a Special Knowledge spell that is ranked for the Summon and Control aspects separately. Air has Resistance to Cold which grants Magic Resistance to Cold spells but reduces damage from Fire spells. Fire has Fire Resistance which grants Magic Resistance to Fire spells and reduces damage from Fire spells not Cold.
On to the Colleges...
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For me the Elemental Colleges, except for Fire Magics, have never felt particularly "elemental". I expect them to focus more on the manipulation of the elements than on interacting with what fauna might inhabit that element.
There are some inconsistencies between the Colleges as well. Air, Water and Fire have Binding as a General Knowledge ritual and Summon/Control of Elementals as a Special Knowledge ritual. Earth however has Binding as a Special Knowledge ritual and Summon/Control as a Special Knowledge spell that is ranked for the Summon and Control aspects separately. Air has Resistance to Cold which grants Magic Resistance to Cold spells but reduces damage from Fire spells. Fire has Fire Resistance which grants Magic Resistance to Fire spells and reduces damage from Fire spells not Cold.
On to the Colleges...
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