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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ProfessorCirno" data-source="post: 4216589" data-attributes="member: 65637">I guess I just feel magic should be inherently dangerous or rare.  Really, it wasn't until vaugely modern fantasy that the idea of being able to just belt out magic even entered stories or myth; magic was, by and large, either deus ex machina, or something incredibly rare, dangerous, and valuable.Despite its flaws, I felt Vancian magic had that in its favor - magic WAS rare, and at lower levels, VERY rare at that.  Wizards were in it for the long term, which is why you'd get so few wizards, because most would give up after realizing how long it would be until they could REALLY use some magic.  The downside was the horrifying power creep that arcane casters went through, from being useless to rediculously powerful, but I don't think it was balanced correctly here.Oh, I'm not saying the word didn't exist, I'm just saying that most people never USED it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />.</blockquote>