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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 9337281" data-attributes="member: 29398">To add to this: if those 5000 spells are indeed all different, and if there's any significant randomness in which of those spells a given wizard has in his-her book, the end result will be that each wizard's spell list might be truly unique.&nbsp; You could have three wizards in a party with three completely non-overlapping spell lists (until-unless they start swapping spells among themselves), which would be a pleasant change from all wizards trying to get the same 20-ish staple spells in their books as soon as they can.The challenge for bloodtide would be to make it such that of those 5000 spells there's not too many that only work in corner-case or unusual situations.&nbsp; An example of a corner-case spell might be a hypothetical spell Full Moon Fever that is extremely effective at taming/confining/killing were-creatures but only on the day-night of a full moon: great spell in the one situation it's designed for, but useless the other x-number of days of the month and-or if there's no were-creatures around.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 9337281, member: 29398"] To add to this: if those 5000 spells are indeed all different, and if there's any significant randomness in which of those spells a given wizard has in his-her book, the end result will be that each wizard's spell list might be truly unique. You could have three wizards in a party with three completely non-overlapping spell lists (until-unless they start swapping spells among themselves), which would be a pleasant change from all wizards trying to get the same 20-ish staple spells in their books as soon as they can. The challenge for bloodtide would be to make it such that of those 5000 spells there's not too many that only work in corner-case or unusual situations. An example of a corner-case spell might be a hypothetical spell [I]Full Moon Fever[/I] that is extremely effective at taming/confining/killing were-creatures but only on the day-night of a full moon: great spell in the one situation it's designed for, but useless the other x-number of days of the month and-or if there's no were-creatures around. [/QUOTE]

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