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When given a relatively large number of choices it becomes significantly easier to repeat a small number of good selections as many times as necessary.

The reason for this is simply one of numbers and effort.

Having a large number of spells that have to be fit into premade slots of fixed level actually hampers experimentation and tactical play.

These take up a good amount of space on the screen and break immersion (especially if you're controlling them via mouse).

It encourages the bars of abilities found in games like WoW.

This seems detrimental to play for three different reasons. If you rely on the limited casting of a Vancian Magic system then you have to eventually give the player many spell slots which they might, reasonably, choose to fill with many different spells. One of the other interesting things this does is let you put a reasonable limit on the number of different spells a single character has access to at any given time. The thing is, when you're fighting Cthulhu, nobody cares if you can cast an infinite number of fireballs it just isn't relevant. Yes this does mean that eventually the cost of lower level spells goes down to zero, but this isn't actually a problem. Since a character's resources aren't going to change to much you can make sure that they're always able to cast a similar number of level appropriate spells, so at level 1 they're not going to fire two magic missiles and then switch over to a crossbow and at level 20 they're still not going to be able to spam Dragon Slay. The first outcome of this is that you get a really smooth and easily controlled power curve.

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While this means that your pool would increase a bit over the course of play, you'd have to be really trying in order to break 60 points by level 20 which is nothing compared to the 232 points the official mod gave to wizards. This was accomplished by setting there pool equal to your primary casting stat + your level + your con-mod* and providing a level based chart for spell costs.

However, a few years ago I ran into a Mana Based homebrew for D&D 3.5 that did some really interesting and inovative things and that I think could work really well for this kind of game.ДЇor those of you who don't want to follow the link the basic premise of this system was that, rather than gaining a huge pool of mana so you could pay for increasingly more costly spells as you leveled, your mana pool would be kept relatively tiny and the cost of spells would actually decrease.

I've seen a number of threads on what type of magic system people would prefer and most of them seem to be following the standard tropes.

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