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<blockquote data-quote="LostSoul" data-source="post: 1714061" data-attributes="member: 386">Your original argument compared chopping down trees all day to casting all your spells.&nbsp; That argument doesn't make sense because you can't cast spells all day (unless you're casting one of the few spells with longer casting times).&nbsp; There's no opportunity cost to casting spells, except the hour or so it takes you to prepare them in the morning.&nbsp; The same doesn't go for chopping down trees all day.If we go by the rules, there is no effort involved (except for the fact that there's nothing else you can do).&nbsp; If you want to extrapolate from the rules, for either physical actions (save for movement) or for spell casting, that's fine; but it isn't in the books.&nbsp;Haven't read Dune lately, have you? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />&nbsp; &quot;What's in the box?&quot;&nbsp; &quot;Pain.&quot;&nbsp;So casting a spell is about as effortless as swinging a baseball bat.&nbsp; Cool. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />&nbsp;There's no evidence to suggest that it takes any sort of effort, either.&nbsp; There is some kind of limit on casting spells that seems to come from nowhere - you can increase your spells per day by doing things like killing goblins, or sneaking back home past curfew, or winning the hand of Snow White.&nbsp; There's nothing to suggest that the number of spells you can cast per day is tied to anything except the number and difficulty of challenges you've faced in your life.Extrapolating is good for the game, but if you want to get all anal retentive (and apparently I do), that's what we're left with. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="LostSoul, post: 1714061, member: 386"] Your original argument compared chopping down trees all day to casting all your spells. That argument doesn't make sense because you can't cast spells all day (unless you're casting one of the few spells with longer casting times). There's no opportunity cost to casting spells, except the hour or so it takes you to prepare them in the morning. The same doesn't go for chopping down trees all day. If we go by the rules, there is no effort involved (except for the fact that there's nothing else you can do). If you want to extrapolate from the rules, for either physical actions (save for movement) or for spell casting, that's fine; but it isn't in the books. Haven't read Dune lately, have you? ;) "What's in the box?" "Pain." So casting a spell is about as effortless as swinging a baseball bat. Cool. ;) There's no evidence to suggest that it takes any sort of effort, either. There is some kind of limit on casting spells that seems to come from nowhere - you can increase your spells per day by doing things like killing goblins, or sneaking back home past curfew, or winning the hand of Snow White. There's nothing to suggest that the number of spells you can cast per day is tied to anything except the number and difficulty of challenges you've faced in your life. Extrapolating is good for the game, but if you want to get all anal retentive (and apparently I do), that's what we're left with. ;) [/QUOTE]

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