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<blockquote data-quote="Kavon" data-source="post: 5948045" data-attributes="member: 9822"><p>Hmm.. Perhaps. I'm not sure this would pan out that well, though, since being a warlock actually means something..</p><p></p><p>If classes didn't have any built in flavour at all, the way classes are presented would have to change as well. Instead of flavorful names that gives you an idea of what they are, you would have to give all the classes generic names instead. Not sure this is going to happen, or be desirable.</p><p></p><p></p><p>At the end of the day, is "Wizard" Vancian? Is "spellbook" Vancian?</p><p>IMO, neither of these is necessarily correct.</p><p></p><p>Is the Vancian system not just one of many different ways for a spellcaster to deliver his spells into the world? I can see it existing alongside other ways, other disciplines within the bookish Wizarding world, so to speak.</p><p>It's no stretch of the imagination that Wizards were to delevope several ways to make "spells" happen. I can see the Wizard being given several different options to cast spells (one of them being the "simple" improvisation option, which is miraculously balanced with the rest of the game).</p><p></p><p></p><p>Now that I think of it (Vancian magic), I personally have problems with Wizards using it (it does not gel with my view of what a wizard is), but I can see a deity granting spells in a Vancian manner..</p><p></p><p>Sort of like:</p><p>Priest: "Oh Lord, please bless me with your splendor."</p><p>Deity: "I grant you this gift for today!" *plants spell in priest's head*</p><p></p><p>This actually makes some sort of sense to me. YMMV *shrugs*</p><p></p><p>Edit: That's funny.. I meant Wizards of the Coast in that sentence about delevoping several ways to make "spells" happen.. But it looks better as Wizards now that I look back at it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kavon, post: 5948045, member: 9822"] Hmm.. Perhaps. I'm not sure this would pan out that well, though, since being a warlock actually means something.. If classes didn't have any built in flavour at all, the way classes are presented would have to change as well. Instead of flavorful names that gives you an idea of what they are, you would have to give all the classes generic names instead. Not sure this is going to happen, or be desirable. At the end of the day, is "Wizard" Vancian? Is "spellbook" Vancian? IMO, neither of these is necessarily correct. Is the Vancian system not just one of many different ways for a spellcaster to deliver his spells into the world? I can see it existing alongside other ways, other disciplines within the bookish Wizarding world, so to speak. It's no stretch of the imagination that Wizards were to delevope several ways to make "spells" happen. I can see the Wizard being given several different options to cast spells (one of them being the "simple" improvisation option, which is miraculously balanced with the rest of the game). Now that I think of it (Vancian magic), I personally have problems with Wizards using it (it does not gel with my view of what a wizard is), but I can see a deity granting spells in a Vancian manner.. Sort of like: Priest: "Oh Lord, please bless me with your splendor." Deity: "I grant you this gift for today!" *plants spell in priest's head* This actually makes some sort of sense to me. YMMV *shrugs* Edit: That's funny.. I meant Wizards of the Coast in that sentence about delevoping several ways to make "spells" happen.. But it looks better as Wizards now that I look back at it ;) [/QUOTE]
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