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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CrimsonWineGlass" data-source="post: 3477195" data-attributes="member: 39863">I was recently reading through the Elminster series and I noticed something that got me thinking.  In the book, during his training (or at this point her training), he/she learns to modify certain spells.  In many styles of fantasy you can modify aspects of a certain spell in very unique and creative ways to get a certain effect.  I know that metamagic feats were intended as a way to achieve this idea but I feel that it should be a natural thing for a wizard to be able to change, say cone of cold, into a line as opposed to a 90 degree burst and only a 90 degree burst with a 45 degree angle on both sides of the point of origin ranging 60 feet out.  Shape changing, type alteration, minor modifications to the effect of the spell that occur on the spot should not require a selection of feats that would drain a fighter in my mind.  The sheer amount of metamagic feats is inane.Now to the question; has anybody developed a magic system that allows for spell usage that A) modify's the "choose from spells 1-8 and they will be that way period" or B) is a system that allows manipulation of elements or similar.  In all honesty, any magic system that is more versatile and not limited to picking from x, y or z.</blockquote>