Vancian magic

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>Prep nothing but tens of Debuffs, a long list of Death Magic and a Rez
>slap the Evil Overlord's girl's ass

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bump wand ban now

You don't NEED a staff. Only battlemages ought to have a staff. I don't see why anyone should own more than a pocket wand and two soul gems at most.

Everyone would have to use up all their prepared spells in some way before they fell asleep. It would probably make mages think twice about preparing really intense spells, because now you HAVE to use those spells before you're able to go to sleep.

>tfw the bureau of ale, pipeweed and wands just killed my familiar

Healers and buffers would be kept near on the battlefield, while blaster casters would likely be kept far away from others, acting as independent snipers and turrets. Sleeping spells become much more dangerous. Everyone capable learns a self-rez spell. Soldiers may be taught a single simple spell designed to go off at death - something that creates cover, buffs their allies, heals themself, or detonates on their enemies, depending on their expected role. Perhaps a law would be enacted requiring all casters to prepare some kind of spell nullification to prevent hell from breaking loose in the event of their death. Perhaps magic is steered away from spellcasting towards alternate means of magic like crafting potions and constructs.

Everyone seems to forget that you don't have to prepare every single spell slot, and if you do, nothing stops you from filling most of them with harmless sparkle magic. If you need a big boom, just prep one.

Everyone shoots their remaining fireballs in a safe direction, like straight up, before going to bed.

Bump scroll. It’s like the flip book of explosive runes the one user had; it just goes through a bunch of scrolls quickly.

The difference between guns and spells here is that gun owners are not compelled to fire a full magazine randomly in all directions every night, possibly in populated areas, before they go to bed.

Spell free zones are just invitations for mad wizards to attack. We need to arm our tutors with cantrips. The Only Thing That Stops a Bad Guy with a Spell is a Good Guy with a Spell.

Anti-magic field research gets accelerated (as opposed to mostly ignored as in default D&D settings) to a point where almost all mages and middle-class or better houses can afford and are expected to have permanent anti-magic fields in their bedrooms. Simple personal anti-magic field jewellery also becomes available for people with the required cash or support.

That was your familiar's fault for standing in the way of magic missile.

>make a magic scroll detailing how to make 6d6 fireballs
>the Antimagic Task Force kills my pet ogre

the funny part is that most RPG settings wind up with, indeed, schools being the most utterly fucking impossible and unassailable places to attack

What if we change it to unplanned unconsciousness? Going to sleep is fine as long as the wizard does a "power down" ritual or something, but getting knocked out or dying nukes the area with whatever the magic user had prepared.

Read the fireball spell description. I'll wait.

Smart. Instead of having your mages be artillery, they're the ammo for that artillery.

Sounds fun. I think it would be even better if it was more vague/less controlled. So a "Fireball" spell may not actually create a fireball when the mage dies, just make the mage explode like a fireball. Or if he had also prepared an "unseen servant" it may fuse the two of them to become a flaming invisible man who kills people, or something fun like that.

>spell research is wizards boxing without magic, first one to get knocked out gets observed by the other in hopes of developing new useful spells

Pretty sure you just described Detroit

Honestly, Vancian Magic really should just be how it's done in Elona- Percentage based for the spells you learn with disintegrating spells in books/scrolls and doen via concentration and payoff of MP or HP when low, failing resulting in perils of the warp shit.