Battle of the ways to cast.

[Thotas]

"However... Had you included a third option of "Fatigue Based Casting" I would have voted for it immediately. I don't even know that a good (in my opinion) implementation of fatigue based casting has been produced for d20 yet, but the concept alone gets my vote."

Like the psionics in Green Ronin's "Psychic's Handbook", then; works just like Auld Grump describes -- skills and feats determine what you can try to do, it costs nonlethal damage to try. Haven't had a chance to play it yet, but at the "I read it" level, it looks pretty interesting.

 

[Thanee]

I voted other, which would be the aforementioned fatigue based casting (i.e. Shadowrun).

Bye
Thanee

 

[Turanil]

I cannot vote. You forgot to mention Grim Tales way of casting spells, which is by far, my prefered method.