Reminds me of DCC RPG magic

[Stainless]

The Greyhawk Grognard blog has this extract which reminds me very much of the way magic should be viewed in DCC RPG. I have no idea where the extract comes from, most likely the Greyhawk Grognard's own writing.

[finarvyn]

I'm not familiar with the passage, either.

This is, to me, one of the big differences between old-school magic (OD&D, C&C, DCC, etc) and 4E D&D magic. In the old days we would write out stuff like this as flavor text, and it would be a product of our imaginations. 4E tried to insert little flavor text into every spell, telling you what it looked like or how the effects would manifest themselves, and makes the wonderous into the mundane since every spell like that had the same effects.

I'm glad that DCC is taking more of an "each is different" approach.

[reverenddak]

I think that tract is a reference to praying to a god-which would very much describe cleric magic in DCC RPG.