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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9772040" data-attributes="member: 29398">First, thanks for answering my question.  Please allow me to lob in some more. <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    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />So, less (or even no?) emphasis on exploration and-or downtime?  OK.Being able to do "cool naughty word" right out of the gate is fine but then how would long-term advancement work?  Or would this be specifically designed toward short quick-hitting campaigns?And thus the player would choose two classes, one from a list of combat classes and one from a list of social classes - am I reading that right?If yes, interesting idea; but what would the social classes look like?  Right now, other than maybe Bard, I can't think of any classes that aren't either combat-first or exploration-first; almost the whole list of social classes would have to be invented from scratch.I've at times held the same sentiment in the past, until I realize I'd have no idea how to usefully replace it.  Vancian is clunky as hell but it does serve one function well: by limiting what casters can do over x-amount of time it keeps non-casters viable to play.  Taking those limits off means that to preserve even the vaguest hint of character balance either everyone would have to play a caster or nobody would, and I'm not sure how far that would fly.One way to de-clunkify Vancian somewhat without completely breaking the game is to do away with any form of pre-memorization or spell preparation.  Just have per-level slots, and if a spell's on your list or in your spellbook for that level and you've got a slot remaining of that level you can freely cast it.  To rein it in a bit, the idea of upcasting or downcasting has to go away - you can only use 3rd-level slots on a 3rd-level spell, period - and spell effects would have to scale with level more, as they did in 3e and prior.With this, all the player has to track is their slots remaining by level; they don't have to go through any sort of preparation or spell load-out each in-game day in play.</blockquote>

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