[Thaumatology] Magical Styles And Limited Spell-Casting

[scc]

OK, one of the many ideas I have bouncing around my head is for variant spell-casting based off of different power sources and I want to know how the idea of Magical Styles for them sounds.

For example Demonologists can use Demon Arts, which allows them to casts spells that belong in the Colleges of Body Control, Mind Control, Fire, Gate, Illusion and Creation, Knowledge, and Protection and Warning, plus of course Meta, Enchantment and Recover Energy (That list actually ended up being pretty long). The spells they cast aren't actually magic, so they can't actually interfere with one another.

Alternatively would Magical Styles work for Clerics and Druids in DF?

I think the actual question might be: What is the rough minimum number of spells in a spell casting system that can support Magical Styles?

[lvalero]

You might as well divide "Demon arts" in three "Colleges". Demon Arts would be the knowledge of ocultism and "theory" of the dark magic acting as a cap of the three colleges.


Body control + Mind control + Fire = Infernal college
Gate + Illusion + creation = Dark crossroads
Protection and Warning + Knowledge = Forbidden knowledge