Done. Sorry about that.
>Now to the post at hand...
>
> > You don't concentrate to a philosophy, you concentrate to a world - God,
> >Spirit, Essence or Mundane. Self-Rock allows you to go outside that,
> >allowing the concentrated use of all types of Common magic, but _only_
> >Common magic.
>
>That's all I was getting at. That to concentrate in common magic requires
>adopting Selfrock teaching (whatever you want to label that as). Whereas you
>don't have to adopt anything to concentrate in any of the "worlds," AFAICT.
I think Selfrock is a special case, as it allows much more than the basic concentration on innate magic does. The others are Concentrate on gods/spirits/veneration/talents. Selfrock is a specific school of training that allows common magic of all types - it's not a category, like the others. You could talk, though, in terms of "I learn to use my Orlanth magic really well", as from a PCs perspective that is exactly what he is doing. He happens to be concentrating his animist magic, but he's not going to think that way.
"I learned Aeol specialist magic techniques" "I can use Ernalda magic really well" "I have a special relationship with Kolat and my spirits are easy to deal with" "I have Selfrock teaching" "I am so well trained as an athlete that they won't let me be more than an initiate, now"
I hope that helps; it's just a POV thing, I think.
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