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Not another shrubbery · 06-18-2009, 09:53 AM

You should get some useful ideas from Thaumatology, such as from the Adjustable Spells section on p39.

An idea that just came to me: Trade off actual skill level for “cost to cast” level. Frex, your actual SL with Fireball is 16, so by rolling against 12 (taking -4 to skill), you can treat the “cost to cast” SL as 20, letting you cast 2d Fireballs for free. That would make mages a little more flexible, but doesn’t seem like it would be unbalancing *crosses fingers* : )

06-18-2009, 09:53 AM	#12
Not another shrubbery Join Date: Aug 2004	Re: Magic and Techniques You should get some useful ideas from Thaumatology, such as from the Adjustable Spells section on p39. An idea that just came to me: Trade off actual skill level for “cost to cast” level. Frex, your actual SL with Fireball is 16, so by rolling against 12 (taking -4 to skill), you can treat the “cost to cast” SL as 20, letting you cast 2d Fireballs for free. That would make mages a little more flexible, but doesn’t seem like it would be unbalancing crosses fingers : )