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<blockquote data-quote="Kahuna Burger" data-source="post: 4081381" data-attributes="member: 8439">In The Book of Night With Moon, which is nice light fantasy for people who like cats, wizards have to deal with what they call &quot;burn in&quot; - if you try to cast the same spell too many times in a row, it's effectiveness begins to decrease. Like most magic systems I like, it still couldn't be replicated by any version of D&amp;D, since it has a &quot;grammatical&quot; magic system and the attendant on the fly spell creation, but it did have &quot;per encounter&quot; magic as a natural part of the story.While we're talking believable magic, I know folks hate the death spiral effect that can com from a condition track, but the biggest versimilitude killer in D&amp;D for me is the part where a magic user (or worse yet psion) basically says &quot;I can't do anything else supernatural today, but am otherwise completely unimpaired.&quot; I'm fine with the idea of having limits to how much magic you can do in a day, but when you can't do any more it should be because you are stumbling along on your buddy's shoulder with the worst migraine of your life, and even then, maybe you could reach deep down and try one more spell, it's just that there's a decent chance of it giving you an aneurism whether you succeed or not. Magical power as &quot;ammo&quot; tracked separately from your physical state just doesn't work for me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kahuna Burger, post: 4081381, member: 8439"] In The Book of Night With Moon, which is nice light fantasy for people who like cats, wizards have to deal with what they call "burn in" - if you try to cast the same spell too many times in a row, it's effectiveness begins to decrease. Like most magic systems I like, it still couldn't be replicated by any version of D&D, since it has a "grammatical" magic system and the attendant on the fly spell creation, but it did have "per encounter" magic as a natural part of the story. While we're talking believable magic, I know folks hate the death spiral effect that can com from a condition track, but the biggest versimilitude killer in D&D for me is the part where a magic user (or worse yet psion) basically says "I can't do anything else supernatural today, but am otherwise completely unimpaired." I'm fine with the idea of having limits to how much magic you can do in a day, but when you can't do any more it should be because you are stumbling along on your buddy's shoulder with the worst migraine of your life, and even then, maybe you could reach deep down and try one more spell, it's just that there's a decent chance of it giving you an aneurism whether you succeed or not. Magical power as "ammo" tracked separately from your physical state just doesn't work for me. [/QUOTE]

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