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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imban" data-source="post: 4923593" data-attributes="member: 29206">This is true. But the other important issue is that no one* actually cares whether it's a good adaptation of the magic in the Dying Earth books specifically or not, since for better or for worse that's become the accepted term for the rules of Wizard spellcasting in all pre-4e D&D editions. "Yeah, well, 3e magic wasn't Vancian either!" is amazingly pedantic and "4e magic is actually MORE Vancian!" is an exercise in completely missing the point.* I mean, not literally no one, but D&D isn't the Dying Earth RPG and "I prefer Vancian magic" is 99% people trying to say that they prefer the rules of Wizard spellcasting in all previous editions, not longing for a hypothetical system which more accurately provides for casting the Excellent Prismatic Spray on your foemen.</blockquote>