Conjoined spells

[Shostak]

Originally Posted by JLV

Why rename something just for the sake of renaming it? Everyone already is familiar with XP...

Well, we are talking about making a change to the system, so somebody (if not everybody) is going to have to learn something new. It seems to me rather simple to have characters earn CP instead of XP, so you never have to cash in one for the other and have one fewer item to track. A concern was raised about how the desire to acquire additional spells forces characters to increase IQ to heady heights, and some solutions were proposed. I'm advocating that the problem is not the spell system, but the limit on skill (spell) number dictated by IQ. Characters are already based on points--just let skills count as points instead of being determined by IQ.