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I'm going to start off by defining what I consider to be a Vancian-style magic system. Vancian-style magic is more than simply having daily resources - it's how those resources are replenished. In 3.Xe, Bards had a limited number of uses of bard song per day, Barbarians had a limited number of times they could rage per day. For both of those, they are renewed after a rest, on a daily basis. One can even think of them as spell slots, where the only spell a Barbarian could "prepare" is rage. Bards had the ability to gain alternate songs to sing with bard song (via Feats? I can't recall off-hand... thinking of things like curse song) and could spontaneously cast the specific bard song tune... up to the limit of their uses per day. But are those Vancian-style magic? Effectively, they are simply...