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jskell27 voted in the poll, "What is your favorite class from across the editions?".

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jskell27 voted in the poll, "How many skills would you prefer to see on a skill list? (Choose one.)".

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jskell27 voted in the poll, "What’s the best way to reflect your control over how competent your character is with a skill? (Choose one.)".

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dwarvenwarmaster

How about an ability similar to the clerical way of "memorizing" spells? An invoker can memorize a bunch of spells, but burn them for a fireball spell, similar to how a positive aligned cleric can burn (substitute) a bless for a cure light wounds. This allows for more flexibility than a straight vacian system, and allows for more utilitarian spells to be memorized without withholding combat effectiveness. You could go more of an opposite route with a utilitarian specialty memorizing combat...

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April 15, 2012 9:04 PM PDT

Otto_von_Rheinsberg

How about improvised magic as an option? This should be less powerful than planned magic. It is costed based upon the liklihood of the effect. Things that are likely anyway are easy and strange things are expensive. Maelstrom and GURPS both feature concepts like it. Examples are given for the most common cases (ie. iconic spells) and perhaps combat magic (which must be faster to draw upon both for the player and the character) must be of the pre-baked libraries (Vancian or Powers).

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April 18, 2012 10:01 AM PDT

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