Wizards: Spells
Clerics: Invocations
Druids: Primalism
Bards: Songs and Leitmotifs
Warlocks: Spells, but Evil
Sorcerers: Raw Magic
Psions: Psionics
And then make them all different.
Like... Wizard/Warlock Spell entries:
Acid Splash
Conjuration Cantrip
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet
Components: VS
Duration: Instantaneous
Cleric Invocations:
Cure Wounds
1st-Circle Restoration
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch
Requirements: Holy Symbol, Prayer
Druid Primalism:
Thorn Whip
The Green Cantrip
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 30 feet
Implements: Strip of Vine or Leather
Bard Leitmotifs:
Vicious Mockery
Humiliation Cantrip
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V
Different "Schools" for different classes. Different requirements, components, implements, things like that. Whole separate lists that give them more flavor...
And then you cast "Detect Magic" and you find some "Storm Magic" and know it wasn't a Wizard who put the spell into effect, but a Druid. Or a "Vengeance Effect" and know it was a Cleric. Also gives different casters things to talk about as the Wizard tries, in vain, to categorize everything the Druid or Cleric or Bard does in terms of the eight schools of magic they were taught... Meanwhile the Sorcerer laughs and talks about how pure magic is just the energy of the universe that -some- people can manipulate directly, rather than relying on chants and wiggling fingers.
Yes. It -is- needlessly complex from a certain perspective. Why do you ask?
Clerics: Invocations
Druids: Primalism
Bards: Songs and Leitmotifs
Warlocks: Spells, but Evil
Sorcerers: Raw Magic
Psions: Psionics
And then make them all different.
Like... Wizard/Warlock Spell entries:
Acid Splash
Conjuration Cantrip
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet
Components: VS
Duration: Instantaneous
Cleric Invocations:
Cure Wounds
1st-Circle Restoration
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch
Requirements: Holy Symbol, Prayer
Druid Primalism:
Thorn Whip
The Green Cantrip
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 30 feet
Implements: Strip of Vine or Leather
Bard Leitmotifs:
Vicious Mockery
Humiliation Cantrip
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V
Different "Schools" for different classes. Different requirements, components, implements, things like that. Whole separate lists that give them more flavor...
And then you cast "Detect Magic" and you find some "Storm Magic" and know it wasn't a Wizard who put the spell into effect, but a Druid. Or a "Vengeance Effect" and know it was a Cleric. Also gives different casters things to talk about as the Wizard tries, in vain, to categorize everything the Druid or Cleric or Bard does in terms of the eight schools of magic they were taught... Meanwhile the Sorcerer laughs and talks about how pure magic is just the energy of the universe that -some- people can manipulate directly, rather than relying on chants and wiggling fingers.
Yes. It -is- needlessly complex from a certain perspective. Why do you ask?
