{"id":17,"date":"2009-11-19T12:44:38","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T12:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/2009\/11\/19\/continuing-an-ongoing-mental-conversation-part-7-other-powers-v\/"},"modified":"2009-11-19T12:44:38","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T12:44:38","slug":"continuing-an-ongoing-mental-conversation-part-7-other-powers-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/2009\/11\/19\/continuing-an-ongoing-mental-conversation-part-7-other-powers-v\/","title":{"rendered":"Continuing an ongoing mental conversation, part 7: Other powers V"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
immlass said:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
I think in your shoes I would assume that conjuration is permanent and summoning is temporary. That would make the point-worthy power actually worth separate points.<\/i><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

This is reasonable for the game in question (Take 2), but I’m not sure it’s the solution I’m happiest with. I’ve had to really think about what it is about this that bothers me – because there is something.<\/p>\n

I went and looked up conjuration on Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Conjuration<\/b> most often refers to the performance of magic tricks. This article discusses the older (and still common) use, describing acts of a supernatural nature.<\/p>\n

The word conjuration (from Latin conjure, conjurare,<\/i> to “swear together”) can be interpreted in several different ways: as an invocation or evocation (the latter in the sense of binding by a vow); as an exorcism; or as an act of illusionism. The word is often used synonymously with “invocation”, although many authors find a distinction between the two terms.<\/p>\n

One who performs conjurations is called a conjurer or conjuror. The word (as conjuration<\/i> or conjurison<\/i>) was formerly used in its Latin meaning of “conspiracy”.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Illusion? Exorcism?<\/p>\n

And hey, check out invocation\/evocation:<\/p>\n

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An invocation (from the Latin verb invocare<\/i> “to call on, invoke”) may take the form of:<\/p>\n

* Supplication or prayer.
\n * A form of possession.
\n * Command or conjuration.
\n * Self-identification with certain spirits.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In other words, “conjuration” by common (albeit internet) definition has nothing whatsoever<\/i> to do with summoning.<\/i><\/p>\n

Interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

immlass said:
\nI think in your shoes I would assume that conjuration is permanent and summoning is temporary. That would make the point-worthy power actually worth separate points.
\nThis is reasonable for the game in question (Take 2), but I’m…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theory","tag-amber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.emeraldsilver.com\/gaming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}