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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 8996447" data-attributes="member: 2629">[Spell level +1] squared.  Cantrip is [0+1] squared.  1st level is [1+1] squared = 4 .... 9th level is [9+1] squared = 100.In my setting there are two types of humanoids: Normal and God Touched.  God Touched have the potential to advance like PCs do.  Normal humans might spend an entire life devoted to studying the arcane in order to become a 5th level spellcaster capable of 3rd level spells.  When I settled upon using the idea of the Spell Weave (which I thought I took from the FR setting, but I used years before they introduced it, so I'm not sure how I came to use it as I'm not familiar with pre-FR usage source materials - I may have stolen it from another DM?) I began to ask what spellcasters did with the weave.  Weaving, manipulating, folding, etc... all made sense, and I played around with the idea.  When I thought about what one of these 'masterful' 5th level normal human wizards might be doing while spellcasting, I played out how much a person might be able to do within a few seconds to cast a spell - and I felt like the number of manipulations per second made sense to tell a good story around spellcasting.  A 3rd level spell takes ~16 manipulations in a few seconds, or 3 to 5 per second.  If you look at someone that has mastered something like a Rubic's Cube, you can see them make about that many moves per second over a few seconds.  Having this as a foundation allows me to apply it to how the rules work to make the story of my setting fit the mechanics.  Over the decades I have developed a huge amount of lore surrounding how my magic works that provides explanations for why psionics and supernatural magics are not impacted by Dispel Magic, how a quickend spell works, and how a cleric and druid are different.  It even explains things like why intelligence based spellcasters tend to have more trouble with healing magic (because the manipulation it requires is hard to do when trying the meticulous sequesntial spellcasting of a wizard while it is easier with magics based upon force of will or divine intervention).A wizard and/or artificer is a precise caster that uses precise sequential manipulations to carefully craft each and every manipulationat blistering speeds.  A sorcerer exerts their force of personality/will on the weave causing several manipulations to manifest at once.  A warlock is touching the weave, but the manipulation of it comes from their patron.  A cleric or paladin calls out to the divine and the divine manipulates the weave.  A druid or ranger is one with the weave (from the source of it in the Positive Energy Plane to the end of it in the Negative Energy Plane) and understands how to let the natural flow of magic within the weave manipulate itself as needed - opening the floodgates in the right way to allow the magic to flow as needed rather than manipulating it or forcing it through will or divine intervention.  Psionic magics, on the other hand, don't touch the spell weave, so are independent of it (and are generated from within a being instead of prom an external source).</blockquote>

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