Forum Overview :: Rants :: I missed it. MUST NOT HAVE MEMORIZED IT.

[quote name="Bill Dungsroman"][quote name="FoK, pointlessly admitting that he is giving into the faggery"]... is that D&D-style "memorization" isn't really reading the spell and remembering how it goes so you can cast it, it's a meditative/magical process under which you transfer the power of the runes in your spellbook onto yourself. So, spellcasting is sort of a two-part process - first you cast the spell that gives you capability to perform the 2nd part, wherein you shoot pretty flowers from your fingertips or whatever.[/quote] Yeah, but they still call it "memorizing," don't they? That's my point: there's an arm's length of falderall associated with D&D <I>magicka</I> (DINGDINGDING GAYNESS WOOPWOOP FAGCON 5) , reagents and power transference and canting and whatfuckingall, but there it goes: "BUHHHH, I have no Fireball <I>memorized</I>!" Maybe that's the fault of the fast 'n' loose computer interpretations of the D&D rules, but it came from somewhere. Look, it's not that I'm disagreeing with you so much. But still, exact quantifiable bits of energy owing to a certain specific spell <I>and only that spell, for any discrete amount</I> is pretty gay. As mentioned, the 3rd Ed. rules try to ungay it somewhat with the Sorceror's rules for magic use. [quote name="FoK, pointlessly admitting that he is giving into the faggery"]It's a solution to the PnP version of button-mashing, which would let 3rd level spellcasters cast Fireball every time, and subtract variety from the game. "Mana" points would alleviate the button-mashing issue, but wouldn't alleviate the variety issue. It's supposed to foster creativity, I think.[/quote] My point ezactly. I wouldn't mind seeing Constitution incorporated somehow. It would dispel the archetype of the wimpy mage, but it would make a hell of a lot more sense, testing one's internal fortitude against the physically taxing process of casting magic. A smort mage with the will of a (insert tuff animal here, they all sound cliche and gay in my head) would/should be the ideal. Fuck, even Wisdom ought to have a hand. Magic shouldn't be easy, it seems all these stupid shortcuts we're arguing over are all in lieu of that. BDR [/quote]