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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Son of the Serpent" data-source="post: 7974746" data-attributes="member: 7015476">I like, no..., LOVE re-skinning but i will add a caveat to that (which is actually the meat of my comment)Reskinning can be great but makes the game bland if its just done unilaterally.  Reskinning is best done in a way that encorperates thematic and lore based restrictions on whuch spells can ve reskinned and in what way specifically by observing patterns of mysticism that you have woven into your world.  Otherwise you get homogenized spell catalogue deluxe, now with ashtray bland flavor for all your magic flavoring needs.  Unilateral ability to do these switcheroos ruins everything.  Definitely best to observe limits.  Not just logistical ones.  Imbalance is good.  Asymetry is good.  Ones that actually feel mystical.  Meaningful.  As a matter of fact if you do that it will even add flavor to magic theory as a topic because it implies a grand structure to the magic of the universe.Ps.  A hoarfrost (hoarfrost, btw, is a frost that kills plants all the way down to the bottoms of their roots and also causes hypothermia in animals without shelter much quicker than other frost weather) is a reskin i have done of cloud kill in my own campaigns.  Comes in as a very ground clingy creeping (briskly creeping) white thick fog.</blockquote>