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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 8618856" data-attributes="member: 7026617">That was a pretty big assumption, however, and I'll not other elements of the Vancian spells were not present (note for example, there were no such thing in the Vance stories as minor spells; you only had a small number of spells, but they were very beefy).  And note as I said, no other writer used a magic system that looked anything like that.  So unless you were familiar with one specific (albeit relatively well-known) writer, it wouldn't look much of anything like any fictional magic you knew.So I think it required more unpacking than you got.</blockquote>