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<blockquote data-quote="Teataine" data-source="post: 5990803" data-attributes="member: 6678036">To be honest, in actual Vance stories, memorisation takes but a moment. Like, open a book, read a spell, it's in your head.Wizards memorize spells when they go out (adventuring or whatever) because lugging your whole library of tomes around is hard and burdensome. They only memorize things they know they will need in a crucial moment, something to release instantly from your brain when the going gets tough.Otherwise they rely on bound demons, cantrips, rituals and other solutions.Seriously, memorizing a spell in the middle of the day during a short rest is in no way against the spirit of &quot;vancian&quot;. In fact I would suggest that it's entirely vancian.Wizards in D&amp;D memorize spells because you can't pull out a tome and start reading during a fight. But once that fight is over you can sit down and put new spells in your head no problem.If anything there should perhaps be a limit to how many spells can be memorized over the course of the day.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Teataine, post: 5990803, member: 6678036"] To be honest, in actual Vance stories, memorisation takes but a moment. Like, open a book, read a spell, it's in your head. Wizards memorize spells when they go out (adventuring or whatever) because lugging your whole library of tomes around is hard and burdensome. They only memorize things they know they will need in a crucial moment, something to release instantly from your brain when the going gets tough. Otherwise they rely on bound demons, cantrips, rituals and other solutions. Seriously, memorizing a spell in the middle of the day during a short rest is in no way against the spirit of "vancian". In fact I would suggest that it's entirely vancian. Wizards in D&D memorize spells because you can't pull out a tome and start reading during a fight. But once that fight is over you can sit down and put new spells in your head no problem. If anything there should perhaps be a limit to how many spells can be memorized over the course of the day. [/QUOTE]

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