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<blockquote data-quote="Essenti" data-source="post: 5939596" data-attributes="member: 100205">Make every spell actually be a ritual at its core.&nbsp; A wizard “prepares” a spell slot by performing the spell’s ritual during their extended rest or at the beginning of the adventuring day, what-have-you. Preperation commits a spell to a slot, and they are activated during combat by the final execution phrase, command, gesture, or whatever.&nbsp;If a wizard wants to cast a fireball into a room choked off by a mass of spider webs, they could perform the half-hour long fireball ritual and not expend the spell slot or they can blow the spell slot and forgoe the ritual casting if time is of the essence.&nbsp;With this system, we can easily lower the number slots a caster has significantly without heavily nerfing the utility and wonder of magic. Casters still maintain flexibility but it is tempered by time and/or material resources for more powerful spells.&nbsp;Additionally, this offers a convenient method for recovering spells during an adventure day. A caster can recover spells on a short rest by spending the time preparing the ritual during the 20 minute rest (I choose that time arbitrarily, although I had two level 1 slots or one level 2 slot in mind when I chose it).&nbsp;And, quite frankly, ritual preparation magic makes more sense than spells being sucked out of your head after casting.&nbsp;<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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Essenti, post: 5939596, member: 100205"] [COLOR=white]Make every spell actually be a ritual at its core. A wizard “prepares” a spell slot by performing the spell’s ritual during their extended rest or at the beginning of the adventuring day, what-have-you. Preperation commits a spell to a slot, and they are activated during combat by the final execution phrase, command, gesture, or whatever.[/COLOR] [COLOR=white][/COLOR] [COLOR=white]If a wizard wants to cast a fireball into a room choked off by a mass of spider webs, they could perform the half-hour long fireball ritual and not expend the spell slot or they can blow the spell slot and forgoe the ritual casting if time is of the essence.[/COLOR] [COLOR=white] [/COLOR] [COLOR=white]With this system, we can easily lower the number slots a caster has significantly without heavily nerfing the utility and wonder of magic. Casters still maintain flexibility but it is tempered by time and/or material resources for more powerful spells.[/COLOR] [COLOR=white] [/COLOR] [COLOR=white]Additionally, this offers a convenient method for recovering spells during an adventure day. A caster can recover spells on a short rest by spending the time preparing the ritual during the 20 minute rest (I choose that time arbitrarily, although I had two level 1 slots or one level 2 slot in mind when I chose it).[/COLOR] [COLOR=white] [/COLOR] [FONT=Times New Roman][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2][COLOR=white]And, quite frankly, ritual preparation magic makes more sense than spells being sucked out of your head after casting.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=2][/SIZE][/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman]:)[/FONT] [/QUOTE]

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