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<blockquote data-quote="NotAYakk" data-source="post: 9043009" data-attributes="member: 72555"><p>In the setting I am working on, magic doesn't work like PC magic does.</p><p></p><p>Wizards, for the most part, are people with books of scrolls. They can create scrolls. And, with effort and a few times per day, they can cast spells from scrolls.</p><p></p><p>So each use of magic requires capital expenses (creating a scroll) which is then destroyed.</p><p></p><p>Wizard guilds have apprentices who practice scribing simple spells as part of training (as well as casting spells). The work of scribing spells is what lower level wizard do in big cities.</p><p></p><p>Priests use relics to cast spells. These relics are fragments of the divine; without such a relic, most priests cannot do magic. "Recharging" a relic is more than just waiting, unless you want to wait an age: all of those prayers and rituals and church services for some gods -- for others, blood sacrifice.</p><p></p><p>Ritual magic is much bigger. Spells to reinforce houses and walls and roads and ships and tools are big part of society.</p><p></p><p>A level 1 PC is a wizard who has the amazing ability to not destroy scrolls when they use them, and <em>can even memorize them</em>!</p><p></p><p>Creatures like sorcerers are also extremely unusual.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NotAYakk, post: 9043009, member: 72555"] In the setting I am working on, magic doesn't work like PC magic does. Wizards, for the most part, are people with books of scrolls. They can create scrolls. And, with effort and a few times per day, they can cast spells from scrolls. So each use of magic requires capital expenses (creating a scroll) which is then destroyed. Wizard guilds have apprentices who practice scribing simple spells as part of training (as well as casting spells). The work of scribing spells is what lower level wizard do in big cities. Priests use relics to cast spells. These relics are fragments of the divine; without such a relic, most priests cannot do magic. "Recharging" a relic is more than just waiting, unless you want to wait an age: all of those prayers and rituals and church services for some gods -- for others, blood sacrifice. Ritual magic is much bigger. Spells to reinforce houses and walls and roads and ships and tools are big part of society. A level 1 PC is a wizard who has the amazing ability to not destroy scrolls when they use them, and [I]can even memorize them[/I]! Creatures like sorcerers are also extremely unusual. [/QUOTE]
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