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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cheerful Coffin" data-source="post: 1692401" data-attributes="member: 22603">Okay dude how about this.. (It's a lame rip-off of Deadlands d6 but deal. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> )Take an average poker deck, 54 cards. (Including the jokers/wilds.)Among the fifty four cards there's thirteen of each suit, your dungeon master chooses one spell of his or her choosing from any source (Player's handbook, differant class list, non-core books, whatever the fancy..) and represents them through a card. (Universal spells cannot be learned this way.)Shuffle the deck and draw a number of cards equal to your charisma modifier. (For instance a level 1 sorcerer that just gained a level and has an 18cha draws four cards.) You obtain the spells those cards have, HOWEVER..If you drew a black joker your four spells of the level you are able to cast are negated and instead you choose three spells you "learn" of one level lower. (For instance your level 2 sorcerer now chooses three new level zero spells if you happen to draw a black wild. I say three cause the black wild is a card and doesn't count.)A red wild card forces you to shuffle one of the other cards you drew back into the deck forcing you to only learn two new level 1 spells for example had you been lvl2.Sense of this, black jokers are the only way to obtain universal spells, (At higher levels you'll grumble at this limitation when Wish becomes exceedingly difficult to obtain.) Now I know this sounds cool despite your dungeon master having the potential to screw you over with choosing the spells, but the schools of magic the suits represents are intact, your DM simply chooses spells for each card.Diamonds=Abjuration/Conjuration.Clubs=Divination/Transmutation.Spades=Evocation/Necromancy.Hearts=Illussion/Enchantment.I don't like multiclassing/prestigious classes and feel the sorcerer should "go back to his roots" so as a penalty for multiclassing a sorcerer starts to question his or her intuition and mind becomes clouded with falsehoods which make you give-up a suit of your choice (Diamond/Club/Spade/Heart.) whenever you gain another sorcerer level.Take note this is just an idea, I have no idea how balanced this would be. A wizard may still know more spells and have more control, but in reality the DM decides those spells too cause thier in those copied spellbooks and stuffs, atleast as a sorcerer you have some way of manifesting what you want and can think outside the arcane box..</blockquote>

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