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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 6056083" data-attributes="member: 7635">Let me lay out a scenario pretty much what I'm talking about now and what Hussar is advocating.Right now, the sorcerer in 3.5 is defaulted to a particular casting method (spontaneous). Without modification to the rules, I assume (as do all people playing in my game) that sorcerers use the rules in the PHB as written. Then one day, a player joins who says "I want to be a sorcerer, but I want to use the <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/magic/spellPoints.htm" target="_blank">spell points</a> rules in Unearthed Arcana. Its an official D&D supplement so you should let me." Now, I have a couple of options:1.) Say no. I run my game using the PHB rules and I don't want to change them. If you want a point-caster, might I suggest <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/psionic/classes/psion.htm" target="_blank">psion</a>?2.) Say no. I may not even allow wizards and clerics (replacing them with mystics and sorcerers) to have a world where magic has a certain feel. Spell points might ruin that feel. 3.) Allow it after careful consideration as to how this changes magic in my game. Do I allow him this option? How does this change the fiction (if any) or the other casters (who weren't given this option; can they now switch?)4.) Just say yes. What can it hurt?The current system (default X, option Y elsewhere) allows me these options. Hussar believes both systems should be presented side-by-side and that the player has the right to pick either of them as he chooses. He takes the choice of magic system away from me (as the DM) and claims it all for himself. Like lots of things, I think that choice should (at best) be a give-and-take between the DM and player. Much like ability scores (point buy or rolled) or other options (prestige classes, alternate class abilities, or UA variants) that should be a choice among all players and the DM. But it doesn't hurt to have a default method (rolled scores, vancian mages) for people who just want to play without careful debate on such matters.</blockquote>

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