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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 325223" data-attributes="member: 259">1) Obviously, according to the rules, switching out spells as a sorcerer is very difficult.  This is a discussion about house rules.2) Please tell me it's just as obvious that having such a house rule isn't a moral issue.  Yeah, it's a game with rules -- that doesn't mean that chaos will prevail if the DM works with the players to come up with house rules to make the game more fun for everyone.For some folks, it's more fun to play with a strict no-spell-swapping policy.  It looks like this is more fun for folks who plan out their sorcerers from the beginning.For other folks, it's more fun to play with a swap-at-each-level policy.  It looks like this is more fun for folks who like to experiment a lot with spells, who enjoy the novelty of new spells.For other folks, it's more fun to play with something in-between.  It looks like these folks are somewhere between the first two groups of players in temperament.Strangely, none of these groups are morally superior to the others.My own take on it is that some of my players (especially the sorcerer players) aren't nearly as familiar with the rules as I am, and prefer to focus on personality rather than on power.  I'm fine with that:  they make my game interesting and fun for everyone.  IN order to keep them happy, I'm willing to bend some rules of being a sorcerer.Another idea for allowing the switching-out of spells:  require a ritual, with an XP cost of (spell level square) * 100.  Thus, to switch out spells, you'll pay the following XP cost/spell level:1:  1002:  4003:  9004:  16005:  25006:  36007:  49008:  64009:  8100This makes it expensive to do, but possible under extreme circumstances.  You might halve the cost if the sorcerer has a superior, similar spell to the one being lost -- if a sorcer has invisibility and improved invisibility, and wants to switch invisibility for web, you might require her to pay only 200 XP instead of the normal 400 XP.Whaddya think?Daniel</blockquote>

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