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<blockquote data-quote="Underman" data-source="post: 5976443" data-attributes="member: 6696705"><p>What if:</p><p></p><p>1) all wizards must choose a favored school</p><p></p><p>2) spells of non-favored schools are available but considered complex. The wizard needs a lot more time and effort to wrestle these unfamiliar or strangely natured spell formulas into memory.</p><p></p><p>2) any complex spell presents obstacles to the wizard, such as:</p><p>i) can only be recharged/memorized once per week or after a full day of meditation or after every full moon or other triggers/prerequisites</p><p>ii) may take 1 full round or 1 full minute or more to cast</p><p>iii) may require expensive or hard to find spell components, cost hit points (ie., stamina), etc.</p><p></p><p>3) put the problematic spells into a 'utility/exploration' school and/or sub-school that would generally not be favored by adventurer wizards (but non-adventuring scholarly sages in their dusty towers can do so)</p><p></p><p>In this way, the specialist Utility Wizard is labelled as 'exploration solver' or whatnot, not the individual spells. The problematic spells are nerfed mostly by accessibility or frequency of usage.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Underman, post: 5976443, member: 6696705"] What if: 1) all wizards must choose a favored school 2) spells of non-favored schools are available but considered complex. The wizard needs a lot more time and effort to wrestle these unfamiliar or strangely natured spell formulas into memory. 2) any complex spell presents obstacles to the wizard, such as: i) can only be recharged/memorized once per week or after a full day of meditation or after every full moon or other triggers/prerequisites ii) may take 1 full round or 1 full minute or more to cast iii) may require expensive or hard to find spell components, cost hit points (ie., stamina), etc. 3) put the problematic spells into a 'utility/exploration' school and/or sub-school that would generally not be favored by adventurer wizards (but non-adventuring scholarly sages in their dusty towers can do so) In this way, the specialist Utility Wizard is labelled as 'exploration solver' or whatnot, not the individual spells. The problematic spells are nerfed mostly by accessibility or frequency of usage. [/QUOTE]
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