One point of comparison often brought up in discussion about Dungeons and Dragons in relation to other Fantasy roleplaying games is of course D&Ds magic system. It is one of the more unique aspects of the game that often is one of the first things shed off or replaced when someone makes a heartbreaker or some contrary system, but why? There is a great many reasons for why, some good, some bad, often the complaints are aimed from a position of ignorance to to exactly what is D&D’s magic system.