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<blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 5799878" data-attributes="member: 92511">RE: Spell casting.I was a little less than clear on that. Sorry. I meant for either/both beging possible within a class. Not one or another.So &quot;Mages&quot; have certain &quot;spells&quot;/abilities that they can cast without study or memorizing at the beginning of the day, but also have other of their &quot;per day&quot; csting which does require it. Not &quot;a 'Wizard' has to read their books&quot; and &quot;a 'Sorcerer' calls on their dragon/fey/demon/half-whampire-half-unicorn-but-only-a-quarter-halfling blood.&quot; This could be &quot;low level&quot; spell effects are able to be &quot;spontaneous&quot; but the big boogy bad spells require research, study and practice. Or spells that effect objects/the environment are &quot;easy/spontaneously cast&quot; but if you want to effect a living being its more &quot;difficult/intricate&quot; and requires memorization. OR to use the 4e categories, &quot;at-wills&quot; v. &quot;encounters&quot; v. dailies&quot;...Or swapping spell slots into/out of &quot;memorized&quot; and &quot;spontaneous&quot; reserves per day: yes, you have 1 3rd level spell effect memorized left, but you can &quot;alter&quot; the energies so you can get 3 1st levels spells off instead...or a 1st and a 2nd or whatever.It can be done a bunch of ways, but I think everyone wants to get away from/grew out of lonnnng ago the &quot;1-a-day memorizing wizard.&quot; Combining the Wizard and Sorcerer classes into a single entity...and then, perhaps, allowing casting-specialization &quot;classes&quot; or &quot;themes&quot; later: &quot;all spontaneous [more but less powerful] spells&quot; or &quot;all memorized [less but mrore powerful] spells&quot;, just for an example...I'm totally making this up off the cuff here. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />But, yeah, both in one. Not, or perhaps in addition to, either/or.--SD</blockquote>

[QUOTE="steeldragons, post: 5799878, member: 92511"] RE: Spell casting. I was a little less than clear on that. Sorry. I meant for either/both beging possible within a class. Not one or another. So "Mages" have certain "spells"/abilities that they can cast without study or memorizing at the beginning of the day, but also have other of their "per day" csting which does require it. Not "a 'Wizard' has to read their books" and "a 'Sorcerer' calls on their dragon/fey/demon/half-whampire-half-unicorn-but-only-a-quarter-halfling blood." This could be "low level" spell effects are able to be "spontaneous" but the big boogy bad spells require research, study and practice. Or spells that effect objects/the environment are "easy/spontaneously cast" but if you want to effect a living being its more "difficult/intricate" and requires memorization. OR to use the 4e categories, "at-wills" v. "encounters" v. dailies"...Or swapping spell slots into/out of "memorized" and "spontaneous" reserves per day: yes, you have 1 3rd level spell effect memorized left, but you can "alter" the energies so you can get 3 1st levels spells off instead...or a 1st and a 2nd or whatever. It can be done a bunch of ways, but I think everyone wants to get away from/grew out of lonnnng ago the "1-a-day memorizing wizard." Combining the Wizard and Sorcerer classes into a single entity...and then, perhaps, allowing casting-specialization "classes" or "themes" later: "all spontaneous [more but less powerful] spells" or "all memorized [less but mrore powerful] spells", just for an example...I'm totally making this up off the cuff here. :) But, yeah, both in one. Not, or perhaps in addition to, either/or. --SD [/QUOTE]

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