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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DarkKestral" data-source="post: 3171091" data-attributes="member: 40100">However, in reality, Conjuration gets umpteen non-combat spells that render it useful outside of battle while evocation has... Light and it's ilk. And that's about it. Conjurations also net you summons (which are a great way of dealing w/ immune creatures like golems, for example) and teleportation... none of which are really covered by other schools that well. (Even Illusion's Shadow Conjuration spell isn't incredibly powerful, when you realize what the belief chance is only 20-30 percent or so.) However, Conjuration, Transmutation, Necromancy, and Abjuration are all allowed to step on Evocation's toes in a lot of cases, with spells that are almost as good, but bypass SR. If SR's really a problem, then SR bypassing should be allowed in the case of a number of evocation spells. Shunting the spells that have that quality into other schools then defeats the purpose of evocation as a spell school focused on attack spells that involve direct HP damage as a spell effect.Personally, I think the answer IS the double-school spells, but instead of having access to one give you spell access despite having the other school as forbidden, you suffer the drawback of a spell getting taken off your castable list if any of it's schools are forbidden to you. However, as a benefit, if you have spell focus/greater spell focus/spell penetration/greater spell penetration in multiple schools, you get the given bonus for EACH school, so you can have Spell Focus (conjuration) and Spell Focus (evocation) stack for a total of +2 to a Dual School Conjuration/Evocation. (a good spell line for this type would be the Orb spells, actually) Benefit, but actual drawback too.Universal spells would then be the ones where school-based effects are selectable, so therefore, none of them really apply to the base spell.</blockquote>

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