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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7264664" data-attributes="member: 4937">That is (or was) my perception of how CoC spell casting should work.  Spells do horrific and esoteric things that aren't immediately useful to a PC caster, and they have costs that make even attempting to do something useful with them not worth it.   And as long as you stick to the Greater Grimoire, it largely will work that way.  But there have always been a few spells that don't have a POW cost, have SAN costs of 1d4 or less, and which do something actually useful and non-horrific - I'm thinking spells like Bless Blade, Elder Sign, Command Animal, Wrack, and Voice of Ra, among others.  Over the years the number of those spells has increased, to the point that I think you could play a PC sorcerer if you had enough SAN and POW.</blockquote>