Posted by A Sylvan on March 7, 2000 at 19:51:33:
In Reply to: Question, mastering Shapeshift. posted by Aspiring Transmuter on March 7, 2000 at 17:09:37:
How to say this in a manner thats appropriately Nepenthesque...lets see....
You CAN learn how to drive a car, and how to use a manual transmission at the same time BUT it would seem to me that it would be harder than learning how to drive a car with an automatic transmission first, then going on to build on your knowledge by mastering the stickshift. So I guess my point is there are things you should master first before attempting to master shifting, while you can perfect the shapeshift spell without putting the time into the "basics" in my experience perfecting them helped immensely in perfecting the shifting spell, and I've done so more than once. I'm trying to be helpful here without blatantly saying do X first and it'll make the learning go faster, good intentions, I suppose we'll see how they're received.