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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6074031" data-attributes="member: 22424">True. And yet, frustratingly, I've met occasions where my party (mostly spellcasters) want to do something, by rights should be able to do that thing, and yet I've been unable to find just the right spell/item/whatever to do that thing. Despite all those thousands of spells, there are still gaps!What I think I would quite like to see is a significant reduction in the number of specific spells/items in the game, possibly including the elimination of some iconic spells, but then the addition of a much more freeform Ritual system. (And, in fact, the Epic rules contain something that's not too far from what I'd be looking for.)Of course, balancing a ritual system would be extremely tough (as tough as writing a genuinely balanced magic item crafting syste, in fact). But I would have thought it might be possible. Also: I see no great reason why such a Ritual system should automatically be limited to Casters - in a magical universe, it's entirely possible that even the most mundane of Fighters might know a couple of simple charms. (cf Robin Hobb's &quot;Soldier Son&quot; trilogy, and the &quot;keep fast&quot; charm.)Problem is, each step takes us further away from 'fixing' 3e, and a step towards an entirely new edition. And I've tried that; it didn't go so well. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 6074031, member: 22424"] True. And yet, frustratingly, I've met occasions where my party (mostly spellcasters) want to do something, by rights [i]should be able[/i] to do that thing, and yet I've been unable to find just the right spell/item/whatever to do that thing. Despite all those thousands of spells, there are still gaps! What I think I would quite like to see is a significant reduction in the number of specific spells/items in the game, possibly including the elimination of some iconic spells, but then the addition of a much more freeform Ritual system. (And, in fact, the Epic rules contain something that's not too far from what I'd be looking for.) Of course, balancing a ritual system would be extremely tough (as tough as writing a genuinely balanced magic item crafting syste, in fact). But I would have thought it might be possible. Also: I see no great reason why such a Ritual system should automatically be limited to Casters - in a magical universe, it's entirely possible that even the most mundane of Fighters might know a couple of simple charms. (cf Robin Hobb's "Soldier Son" trilogy, and the "keep fast" charm.) Problem is, each step takes us further away from 'fixing' 3e, and a step towards an entirely new edition. And I've tried that; it didn't go so well. :( [/QUOTE]

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