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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 5778102" data-attributes="member: 5143">The thing is, you can't have this be balanced.  It makes a horrible game.Most literature has magic that changes from extremely weak to extremely strong at the drop of a hat.  A wizard in a book or movie might spend the entire story following behind the party doing almost nothing because "Magic takes a lot out of you and should be used sparingly" only to cast a spell that defeats the dragon at the end(after the hero fights it for 10 minutes in a pitched battle, of course).When in a game, people are going to be staring at the wizard saying "If you can cast a spell powerful enough to kill this dragon...why are you waiting until I fight it for 10 minutes first?"  It also runs into the problem of how fun it is to play a wizard who has to sit there and not cast spells for 10 minutes(which might be an hour or 2 in real life) during a battle.The same thing applies to non-combat magic.  Within the same story, you'll find that one minute the wizard is claiming that he'll need rare herbs from a cave filled with evil creatures that takes a month to get to in order to create a potion to disguise someone...and the next they are casting a spell which causes them and 5 of their friends to fly up a mountain on a moments notice after they fall.These things make great plot devices but not balanced or fun games.  Inevitably, we need meta-game based restrictions on things to make things more fun.  Otherwise we end up with one ability that is the "best" one that a character will use over and over again.</blockquote>

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