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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5788662" data-attributes="member: 82106">Definitely a good bit more book keeping. I'd be more tempted to leave it at you have a choice of which forms of spells to memorize and you get a certain number of each type of form. You can 'downcast' a spell if you really want to for whatever reason, and you can pick which forms of each spell to memorize at the start of the day. That gets rid of the extra complexity and gives you a good deal of the type of flexibility wizards have typically had. I would just extend this whole discussion to say that there would be no distinction between utility and combat magic in this system. You can always fall back on ritual forms of niche utility spells, or memorize them if you're not expecting to need a lot of combat power. Some spells might have lesser forms that are purely utility in nature (or greater forms for that matter, and possibly Pure forms). Mixed powers like that would be a bit more interestingly flexible too as downcasting might have some real benefits now and then.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 5788662, member: 82106"] Definitely a good bit more book keeping. I'd be more tempted to leave it at you have a choice of which forms of spells to memorize and you get a certain number of each type of form. You can 'downcast' a spell if you really want to for whatever reason, and you can pick which forms of each spell to memorize at the start of the day. That gets rid of the extra complexity and gives you a good deal of the type of flexibility wizards have typically had. I would just extend this whole discussion to say that there would be no distinction between utility and combat magic in this system. You can always fall back on ritual forms of niche utility spells, or memorize them if you're not expecting to need a lot of combat power. Some spells might have lesser forms that are purely utility in nature (or greater forms for that matter, and possibly Pure forms). Mixed powers like that would be a bit more interestingly flexible too as downcasting might have some real benefits now and then. [/QUOTE]

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