Quote Originally Posted by Tanarii View Post
Totally agree.

But it's my 'job' to generally disagree with Pex on anything related to vagueness of 5e vs specificity of 3e. Even though I loved it generall during the 3e era, and when in the specific case he may have a point. I wouldn't want him to be disappointed in me.
To some extent questions like that ARE things you might want to have variable by table though. "What is magic and how does it work" is something I'd rather the rules are vague on, not specific, because it constricts world building.