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<blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 852162" data-attributes="member: 172">I thought I explained this, but to expound on it.First off, some people just don't dig/comprehend the idea of a &quot;memory&quot; of a spell disappearing, or words disappearing off of a page when a spell is cast. Not to mention, there is about one setting/author that actually used memorization, but a great many that prepared spells, creating a stronger consistency with literature.Second, if your spells are in your spell books, if you assume that it is the words that hold the energy and if a spell disappears off of a scroll when cast, then why does a spell not disappear when cast? Under the memorization description, this sort of required some doublethink and handwaving.Under the 3e description, the explanation is really simple. The words in the spellbook are not the totality of the spell; when you prepare a spell, you are actually spending the time to cast a majority of the spell. Scrolls store this energy; spellbooks do not. This is why scrolls are different than books. Finally, it makes sense.It makes sense in the context of 3e item creation. A spell book does not store spells, only the method to casting them. A spellcaster stores spells, it takes something EXTRA that spellbooks don't have to give items this ability.Finally, the term is meaningless to new players. If you never learned assuming that the act of preparing a spell is memorization, then you aren't going to understand what it means when some author carelessly invokes this term.That is the difference.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Psion, post: 852162, member: 172"] I thought I explained this, but to expound on it. First off, some people just don't dig/comprehend the idea of a "memory" of a spell disappearing, or words disappearing off of a page when a spell is cast. Not to mention, there is about one setting/author that actually used memorization, but a great many that prepared spells, creating a stronger consistency with literature. Second, if your spells are in your spell books, if you assume that it is the words that hold the energy and if a spell disappears off of a scroll when cast, then why does a spell not disappear when cast? Under the memorization description, this sort of required some doublethink and handwaving. Under the 3e description, the explanation is really simple. The words in the spellbook are not the totality of the spell; when you prepare a spell, you are actually spending the time to cast a majority of the spell. Scrolls store this energy; spellbooks do not. This is why scrolls are different than books. Finally, it makes sense. It makes sense in the context of 3e item creation. A spell book does not store spells, only the method to casting them. A spellcaster stores spells, it takes something EXTRA that spellbooks don't have to give items this ability. Finally, the term is meaningless to new players. If you never learned assuming that the act of preparing a spell is memorization, then you aren't going to understand what it means when some author carelessly invokes this term. That is the difference. [/QUOTE]

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