Literally the same way with ham radio… We have three purposes, in order of importance: Emergency and disaster services, talking about our radio equipment, and talking about the weather (sometimes in great detail). See also: farmer Joe in Arkansas got his kidney removed, ed in Tennessee finally fixed his motorcycle, and the Smith Brothers went to Hawaii to make a Morse contact with Japan.
When my brother was at USMC weapons training, another group strapped a high-power concert speaker system to a couple MRAPs and blasted a metal version of the imperial march driving the convoy back to base… First-hand reports say the ground was shaking noticeably not only from the vehicles but in time with the music.
The “cannon” explanation is that it uses so much energy to channel magic that, after a few major spells, you’re entirely exhausted to the point of collapsing if you were to try to push it beyond what you’re capable of. As you learn and practice it becomes easier and you can make greater physical changes to the universe, but there’s still a limit and it’s still incredibly tiring.
Or, hear me out: take a cold shower for a minute, then turn it slightly warm. It will be painful. Repeat every day. Go outside with one less layer than normal, shiver for 5 minutes. Do this literally every day. Pretty soon, cold adaptation. The human body is nice like that, and your vascular system will thank you. Unless you have a really bad heart condition that wouldn’t allow cardio obviously because your heart rate will go up.
I modded the heck out of it (I think 58 mods installed), all small tweaks, rebalances and quality of life stuff. Now it plays great single player, but yeah it’s definitely balanced for 2+ players.