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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Yeah, glad they address the scaling thing. My initial thought with jumping is that, you can’t have your cake and eat it too, in regards to physics.

    Either you scale down in a way that works with physics, and die instantly. Or you scale down ‘magically’, and imo you don’t get to reap the benefits of stuff like ‘extra’ strength and other square-cube-law changes. (though, I guess if you are just saying ‘it’s magic’, you can come up with any number of justifications for keeping that stuff)






  • Short answer: read Jack Vance’s ‘tales of a dying earth’. It’s the reason dnd magic is called ‘vancian’.

    Longer answer: in that series, magic works by just remembering words, and then saying them. But these magic words are powerful things, weighty in the mind, hard to carry. And, when said, they tear themselves out of your mind, causing you to forget them.

    So, not ‘spell slots’ per se, but the idea is you’re prepping spells almost as a ‘potion’, something you carry in your mind, and consume to cast out a spell.