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this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2023
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I'm not trying to erase anything; I'm more encouraging these players to make their background fit the game world better because in the end, the game is just collaborative story-telling and you're not the only writer. Just as it's easy to fix the problem with magic, you could equally make it unfixable with magic too.
Magic is literally capable of anything. It can grant wishes. It can raise the dead. It can cure disease. It can also cause death. Cause disease. Permanently maim and disfigure. It doesn't need to know anything; the person performing the magic makes that determination. That's part of what makes it magic.
Yup! Whenever I play in a high magic setting and want to incorporate disease, disability or death into a story, I always come up with a reason why it cannot be fixed with magic, or why the character didn't want to/couldn't fix it with magic.