Random Magic Paths - is it truly random?

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Alneyan said:
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- Murphy's Law, obviously. If you need a fire random badly, you will never get that random. Ever. Your neighbours, of course, will have their hands full of Garnet Amazons, sages with a pick in fire, and things of the like. Should you attempt to "convert" their mages, you will end up taking their non-fire mages away.

I just really desperately needed a one-in-eight random magic path pick on a new mage... and I got it.

So, obviously the real explanation is ... I stole your luck!

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