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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 8198742" data-attributes="member: 29398">They wouldn't each get their own colour, instead they'd be factored in to the associated colour with the other things already there.About half the colours would have some sort of attack spells, yes; largely because if we're talking D&D, a character without some form of half-decent damage output of some type isn't going to be all that popular/useful unless it's completely OP in other ways.In your original list, I suspect just about everyone would take "Red plus two others" as the chosen colours.I assumed this would be happening anyway - each colour would have a collection of spells that, while each related to the colour, might not necessarily be related to each other.So, after a go-over and a second (not posted) re-think, I arrive at this:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">White: Healing, Blessing, Cold, Ice</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Black: Death, Undeath, Cursing, Earth-shaping</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Red: Sonic, Destruction magic, Berserking, Fire</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Blue: Knowledge, Divination, Electricity, Water</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Yellow: Body magic, Transmutation, Alchemy (potions), Light</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Green: Plants, Creatures, Air, Weather</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Orange: Chronomancy, Conjuration, Summoning</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Purple: Mind magic, Illusion, Dream magic</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Brown: Generalist, Written magic (scrolls), Travel magic</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Rainbow: Raw Magic, Wild/chaos Magic, Force</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">=======================</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Separate unrelated optional system: Psionics</li> </ul>Assigning spells to each of these would be tedious, but in fairness it's work that would only have to be done once.Some spells might be common to two or even three colours e.g. a spell that makes someone act completely randomly for a round might be on the lists for both Yellow (as body magic) and Rainbow (as wild/chaos magic).  Brown would end up with a very small smattering of spells in common with each other colour, plus some writing-related spells and all the travel/locomotion spells.Howzat?</blockquote>

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