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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Garthanos" data-source="post: 8830128" data-attributes="member: 82504">Thanks for taking the hyperbolics well.. sometimes moods are that way.Maybe there are actually dozens of spells but the game mechanics for each are just not that specific (ie you can set the fireball so its fire effects are adjacent  and in game world that is two different spells (but two different sets of mechanics would be redundant) , so in game world the casters who know how to do the one generally know how to do the others (perhaps even one that is a heat blast and the other is  flames so their damage type is mechanically the same), each variation may introduce elements which are different but inconsequential like the flame color  you mentioned.Maybe casters are very adept at making cosmetic changes or personality / moods (there is your chaos) infects how the spell manifests in those ways so  (I think it was AD&D that first mentioned a fireball looking like skulls or something )There is an ice at-will attack magic in 4e (its narrowly defined combat effects could be described many ways however more is possible .... see below). The game explicitly suggested allowing an arcana check to modify rituals and elsewhere gave guidelines page 42, for scaling improvised actions to reflect the skill and power of the user... those mechanics mention the possibility of enable using power slots on improvised tricks (I have seen some restrict those tricks to normal athletic things but I said why does that have to be the case especially when a ritual could be adjusted on the fly and you have an at-will effect) I would totally consider allowing someone to sustain that at-will to create a path to walk across the  frozen lake surface  based on skill checks and that at-will  (*this latter effect might because its protracted use involve expenditure of a healing surge) ... the dice involved can reflect your outside the box useage...Not that  fond of wild magic generally speaking but I am fond of people being able to customize their characters in ways that suit them and player characters being unique and magic having many many different manifestation distinct to the culture it was developed in and having those reflective of cultural identities as well as variations based on individual talents... AD&D had a mechanic to represent a form of variation in talent up to a degree you had to roll the dice to learn a given spell (not much variation just on and off).</blockquote>

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