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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 9545483" data-attributes="member: 42856">I fear that the Exterminate cantrip will end up extremely disappointing and that we won't be able to summon an army of Daleks. Was this spell designed by a wizard who had minored in Advertizing?I remember one of the most fun series of gamebook by J. H. Brennan called Grailquest that had a scoring system. You started with 1000 points and you lost one each time you died attempting the book. At the end of the book, there was an actual two pages covered with small boxes (possibly 1000) to keep track of the score. The books were extremely parodic, though and now I am thinking it was a parody of true scoring systems in gamebook of the time...They were targetting a young audience. Plus, gamebook appealed to bookish children who tended to read books above their age bracket. So... let's not involve too many adult things like death that might be shocking for a young audience. I mean, when I first read the Grey Star series, I wondered why we lugged around a NPC girl (yuck!) who was totally going to cause problem being tracked by the evil witch she had betrayed to save us for no discernable reason. A few years later, I reread the book as a teenager and it was quite obvious she was the MC's love interest.We're really not the brawny type.And we thought Vancian magic was hardcore...Beware, I'll make myself able to read a magical graffitti! Or I could exterminate you. I suppose our father is an archmage, but we are still level 1?</blockquote>

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