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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 3480010" data-attributes="member: 13966">Name me one fantasy series, movie, or novel in common parliance that has magic-users hurling around magical power all the time as though it were an unlimited resource.I don't recall ever watching or reading any story where Merlin hurled tons of enemies with magical force at will, or Gandalf loosed a multitude of fireballs, or Yoda wiped out entire armies with the Force by himself like it was an easy matter, or anything else of the sort.  Maybe in some obscure fantasy books every Tom, Dick, and Harry with a bit of magical training can hurl fire and lightning all day long, but I haven't seen a single such book myself, and I know full well they aren't 'common' fantasy.  Even CRPGs and CCGs and stuff generally have hard limits on magic-users in the game.Gandalf had the Ring of Fire, Narya, but not once does he really use it in the movies or the LotR trilogy I think (he may've used it for his pyrotechnics trick in The Hobbit, but I dunno; that's the only time I can think of that he might've used it).  He had wondrous magical powers, but didn't wield them very often.  They obviously weren't the sort of thing you could just use willy-nilly every time it might be handy to do so.  He fought with stave and sword as often, or more, than he cast spells.  Just as one example of a common fantasy wizard, mind you.If every apprentice wizard could hurl magical power around at will, why wouldn't it become common knowledge to where everyone would study magecraft for a bit just to have that handy power at their disposal all the time?I don't mind things like the feat from Tome & Blood that allows a spellcaster to use one of their 0-level or 1st-level spells at will as a spell-like ability.  That's something only a few mages are ever going to pick up, even fewer than the number that will ever even have the degree of magical prowess to do so (but choose not to).I don't think even the Forgotten Realms is high-magic enough for you to reasonably expect every other NPC above 1st-level to have learned the ability to hurl nearly-Magic Missile-equivalent bolts of magic at will.  And frankly I don't even see the appeal of such limitless minor magical power existing in a game world for everyone to use as readily as the air they breathe.</blockquote>

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