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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hekate" data-source="post: 4523684" data-attributes="member: 79147">First post! I'm really hoping someone works on this, and I'd like to kick in my two knuts as well.  My Potter-fu is strong, so if there's anyone organizing this, please contact me. May I suggest that there be a list of the "standard spells" (the ones that are taught in school as part of the regular curriculum, like Lumos, Wingardium Leviosa, and Accio - most of them would be utility spells) and spells that are taught outside the regular curriculum (like the Patronus, Alohomora, Serpensortia, and most of the combat spells).  There could be specialized "House" lists of spells commonly known to members of particular Houses.  The really dangerous and/or useful spells are generally encountered out of class time, for some reason, so locating/researching/finding someone to teach you an advanced spell could be an important part of the game.  From what I see of 4e, though, you don't really have to "learn" magic anymore, you just get the spells automatically when you level up.  Back when I started playing (in the antediluvian era), you used to have to find another wizard to teach you spells and/or get them from scrolls and spellbooks - that was why spellbooks were so valuable - but that slowed things down after a while so that mechanic just went by the wayside.  That would probably have to be reinstituted here.  Someone like Hermione, with serious research skills, would be able to fish appropriate spells out of the huge but unorganized Hogwarts Library, learn them herself, and teach them to others.  She might have a huge list of known spells, but have no more at-will, encounter or daily spells than anyone else.  Alternatively, when you learn any spell, it starts as a Daily, then when you use it a certain number of times successfully, it becomes an Encounter, then eventually an At-Will.  Thus each PC would develop an individualized "library" of spells which would vary from everyone else's, and their favorite, most used spells would be at-wills (e.g., Harry can do a Patronus at-will, but very few other people can - or need to - do it that well). And while the charms, curses and jinxes are fairly easy, how would Transfiguration be handled?</blockquote>

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