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* In ''[[GURPS]]: Magic'', knowing really powerful magic almost always requires the knowledge of a bunch of simpler spells with more mundane uses (eg, to learn Volcano, you need to know things like Create Fire and Shape Earth).
* In ''[[Blue Rose]]'', this is explicitly stated to be the norm, at least in Aldis. Telepathy, in particular, sees a lot of use for things like ensuring honest testimony in trials, sending messages across the kingdom, and aiding in the rehabilitation of criminals.
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* ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade]]'' provides quite a few mundane uses for the vampiric disciplines: for example, members of the [[The Grotesque|Nosferatu clan]] can use [[Super Strength|Potence]] for construction, tunnelling through solid rock with their bare hands to create new warrens [[Beneath the Earth]]. The artistically-inclined among them, meanwhile, have been known to use it in sculpture.
** When not using their power of [[Lovecraftian Superpower|Vicissitude]] to transform themselves into [[One-Winged Angel|armour-plated killing machines]] or [[Blob Monster|puddles of animated blood]], the Tzimisce clan use it to build and decorate their havens. Of course, because this is a ''fleshcrafting'' discipline, and because the Tzimisce have a very sick sense of humour, [[Powered by a Forsaken Child|the building materials are invariably live human beings]]- which ''remain'' [[And I Must Scream|alive and conscious even after their reconstruction]].
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