Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31371445-20170222233857/@comment-32182236-20180622113914

"That would make sense, but then again, define what counts as "expressing oneself" through magic and what doesn't. The dividing line here is so thin we may as well disregard this option and say that not being able to express oneself = no magic usage at all."

How about we use the official definition of this term, then?

"Reveal or portray one's feelings or views through speech, writing, some form of art, or behavior"

In this case, it's through magic. So, it's revealing one's feelings and views through casting spells. Now, as you point out, monsters are essentially MADE of magic, unlike humans-Casting spells is likely natural to them-After all, they cast complex bullet patterns very easily, and rather quickly, too! I would probably need to slow down time immensly in order to aim 12 bullets at once and fire them with such accuracy in the time given-Even then, I'd likely miss. (And if one of you guys thought the JFK assasination was hard..? As no experts were able to replicate it? Yeah, this would be even harder. And yet, monsters were able to do it naturally.)

Humans would only be able to cast simple spells, and they would have to prepare these spells beforehand. Not only that, because they would need to actually study magic, seeing as it's not, say, their SOUL trait (unlike monsters), very few humans would actually becaome wizards. Basically, if some humans are wizards, just about every monster is a warlock. Multiclassed with something else. (Warlock is their Favored Class)

Spells like creating a barrier, or maybe a few basic fireballs.. Spells that wouldn't require what's basically TAS accuracy just to perform. So, if humans are only limited to casting spells that they've memorized and prepared beforehand, and can't cast these bullet patterns at all, can we really say that they're revealing their feelings and views, when all they can do is make basic attacks, create barriers, and.. Maybe teleport? Even when we give them healing powers and such, they're really not expressing themselves. They're just using magic to attack, protect others, and teleporting, and they have to prepare these spells ahead of time. If that's all they can do, it'd make sense why the monsters prided themselves with how amazing their magic is, and how humans can't express themselves. They'll never get a bullet-pattern birthday card.