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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6837816" data-attributes="member: 996">So, thanks for the interesting digressions:That could be the sphere system.  You could use the spheres to build any D&D spell.  The odd restrictions on the spell would just be foci & paradigm.Vance didn't go into how long it took to memorize a spell or how long you had to wait to memorize a new one that I recall.  Memorize-into-slots, with fewer, but higher level slots, might work.  Vance also essentially had only two spell levels, lesser & greater or something like that, with a mage able to memorize more of the former instead of the latter.  That could be tricky.  A progression where you slowly went from 1 1st level slot to 4 or 5 5th-level slots, then slowly gained another 1-4 high level slots, starting at 6th and working your way up to 9th.  So a 20th level wizard might have 5 5th level slot and 5 9th, for instance?One compensating factor is that the less common and less understood magic is in the setting, the relatively greater the advantage it affords the characters able to use it.  In a high-magic world, a PC with invisibility is just another trickster.  Any well-guarded area will have precautions to prevent it being breached by some low-level joker with an invisibility spell or potion, from pragmatic, "doors must always be kept closed" and those doors have bells on them, to the annoying (why do we have chalk dust all over the place) to the fire-with-fire of magical wards.  In a low-enough magic world, if you come to the lord of the castle saying an invisible man opened the door to his vault, you might be convicted of the theft, yourself, or maybe dealt with however your culture deals with lunatics.  In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.  So, yeah, casting that invisibility spell requires imperiling your soul to learn, and running a small chance of being noticed and carried off by an invisible demon who can only see you because you're invisible, just might be worth it.  And, sorry for any negative connotations.Thank you!  Snowflake's been used in a lot of polls as the I-don't-quite-agree-with-any-of-these-answers answer, I thought it light-hearted.  'Homebrew' or 'House Rule' have been used with disdain, too, so... I had to use something, thanks for detailing it, though, that's always interesting.  <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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