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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Essenti" data-source="post: 5845755" data-attributes="member: 100205">I love playing wizards but I do wish that spells were actually more vancian than they are now. If spells were lengthy and complex rituals that needed to be prepared ahead of time to have any hope of using them in combat. So a mage has to spend time preparing the spell (like the level squared * 10 minutes) and then during combat they can unleash a prepared spell with a more simplified execution of gestures / vocalizations. First level spells would require 10 minutes to prepare, fourth level spells take about 2.5 hours, and ninth level spells would take 13.5 hours to prepare. I could even see these preparation times being raised higher for higher level spells, with ninth level spells requiring several days of preparation... or it could be something simpler and more linear like the spell level * 10 minutes. Basically, it's not about "memorize a spell, fire and forget it", but rather more along the lines of prepare a spell and execute it. It seems to make a lot more sense that way. EDIT: Essentially, the concept of 4e "ritual" spells is what every arcane spell is, and would remove the unnecessary dichotomy between spells and rituals... and make spell components something that could be worked back into the system, but used or spent during "preparation" rather than during combat. <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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