







  1. Sounds good, I'll be interested to see how this works out

  2. Cool! A bit reminiscent of Jorune's Isho, which is a good thing. Spell containers are a great idea - I like!

  3. Rolemaster? You're creating a regular Frankenstein Monster here!

  4. I've never played Rolemaster before. But yes, Frankenstein's Monster. The spell point system I lifted pretty much straight from D&D 3E. Sacred cows are for butchering, friend. I must confess that I first heard of spell point adders and multipliers in MERP, and I suppose that is very close to Rolemaster, seeing as they are both from ICE. The spell containment thing I came up with myself, however.

  5. I don't know how accurate it is to call the old scroll-spell system "Vancian". It's characteristic of the magic in Dying Earth, true, but even in Rhialto the Marvellous we're seeing other ways it can work, including advanced tech. Outside of the DE universe, Vance has spirit-magic (The Miracle Workers) and faerie magic (Lyonesse) so I think the better adjective for what you're describing would be Gygaxian. Just coz Gygax said he based D&D magic on Dying Earth doesn't make Jack Vance culpable :)