Fatigue Reduction for Spells... Again (sigh)

[Black Rose]

Okay, I realize the Arabian is both off to join the Choir Invisible and truly well-bludgeoned on this topic, at least where I am concerned, but... I had an idea*.

What if, instead of a flat out reduction in Fatigue Cost for all spells, you had individual Dedicated!Fatigue** points. Say you have... three D!F points (as an example). You could dedicate them to any spell of up to 3 FP cost and make it cost "nothing". Or you could dedicate 2 I!F pts to a 2 FP spell and make it "free", and have a spare I!F pt for another spell should you need it. The thing is, if the spell you dedicated them to is still in effect (Armor, Invisibility, etc.), the points are inaccessible until that spell ends.

Now, despite my examples above, you could easily use your D!F pts on a more expensive spell -- it just wouldn't be free.

Frankly, I've been trying to figure out a way to make spellcasters that can cast smaller spells with real ease, but not be utter powerhouses. Giving them huge piles of Mana points was just a bad idea, and having Mana that recovers really fast has its own issues as well. But this seems like it could really work.

So my questions are:
A) does it seem reasonable? And if not, what is necessarly to make it so?

and B) how much should such a thing cost?

Thank you all for your time.


*Run now, while you still can.

**Or something like that.