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Mage spell

Reframing Problems

Ranks 1-3
Cost: 150 Mana
Cast: 1.5 sec
Range: 30 yd
Cooldown: none
Reagents: Paper, a question

Turn an impossible problem into a smaller, weirder one. It is not a problem; it is a sheep.

Wears the Classic spell Polymorph. The mind: learning, memory, focus, language, and cold clear thinking.

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Learning the ranks

Rank 1

Three rewrites

State the problem in one sentence, then rewrite it three ways: bigger, smaller, and as a question. The first framing is rarely the best one.

Rank 2

Design with constraints

Ask what would make it easy instead of hard, and which part you could solve today. Constraints become features when you design with them.

Rank 3

Keep a thinking spellbook

Keep a file of problems you dissolved by reframing; it becomes your personal spellbook of thinking tools.

Infinite Knowledge is a guide, not a substitute for certified instruction where lives, limbs, or law are involved.