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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Grassy Gnoll" data-source="post: 6830119" data-attributes="member: 6788652">It doesn't feel terribly magical to me, no. More akin to Batman's Utility Belt ("Holy Magic Missile, Batman!", "Pass the Wound-Repellent Bat-Juice, Robin").As others have said, the magic Items can feel much more magical, especially the rarer ones, but even they can have a Utility Belt aspect to them ("Time for a Figurine of Wondrous Bat-Power").A magic system I really liked was from the 80s RPG, Maelstrom.I traded away my copy years ago, but it essentially had no Spell Lists at all. Magick-users affected the 'Maelstrom' (read: Weave) and simply described what they wanted to happen.The GM then makes them make a Knowledge check to see if they know the proper incantation (without having an Ars Magica style need to combine actual words), then a Will check (or checks, depending on how complex on a scale of 1-5 the desired effect is), to see if they pull it off...with the chance, especially at higher difficulties, of there being a Breach where the Maelstrom breaks through with unintended effects (read: free form version of Wild Magic Surge).It being a percentile system, though, how easily translatable a system of this sort to D&D would be, is doubtful.It did give the feel of a Jonathan Strange type of magic, where magic is a little more subtle, more personalised, and mysterious.</blockquote>