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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aaron L" data-source="post: 3088345" data-attributes="member: 926">Nothing so severe.  Actually, something as simple as a coldball Id probably just allow a Wizard or Sorcerer to take on level up, as you said.  I see Fireball as being something easier to produce, as creating heat to make fire Id say would be easier than destroying heat to cause an explosion of cold, but mechanically it would still just be a D6/level and the same power as Fireball, so I'd just let the caster say they were researching it without the cost involved (isnt that kind of the default assumption for Wizards spells gained from level up?)  Simple thing to allow, no balance worries, and a nice bit of variety.  A sonic ball, on the other hand, Id say is just barely out of the ordinary enough that Id probably require research for (but maybe not, I havent really encountered it yet, I might just allow a caster to take that on level up, too.)   I'd still easily allow the spell, but as sonic damage (and sonic resistance) is a bit more rarely encountered, Id make them pay the research costs just as a matter of DM judgement.Im pretty lenient about things like that.  Like I said, I freely allow healing spells for arcane, casters (with a slight level adjustment <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />) and I think thats pretty open-minded <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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