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What do you guys think of this function?

Instead of specific spells, there are mana points. Whenever you use magic, you decide how to use it, and then decide the effects. So let’s say I wanted to make a dragon made of fire come out of my hand and crash into the ground, burning everybody. The look would just be flavor, with it really have two effects, fire damage and area of effect. Both of these cost a specific amount of mana points. Add them together and subtract them from your total score. You get all spent mana points back after you rest for at least 6 hours.

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What do you guys think of this function?

Instead of specific spells, there are mana points. Whenever you use magic, you decide how to use it, and then decide the effects. So let’s say I wanted to make a dragon made of fire come out of my hand and crash into the ground, burning everybody. The look would just be flavor, with it really have two effects, fire damage and area of effect. Both of these cost a specific amount of mana points. Add them together and subtract them from your total score. You get all spent mana points back after you rest for at least 6 hours.

 I like this, how would scaling work. More mana points equals more damage?

And what about control spells like control flames, or normal cantrip effects

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What do you guys think of this function?

Instead of specific spells, there are mana points. Whenever you use magic, you decide how to use it, and then decide the effects. So let’s say I wanted to make a dragon made of fire come out of my hand and crash into the ground, burning everybody. The look would just be flavor, with it really have two effects, fire damage and area of effect. Both of these cost a specific amount of mana points. Add them together and subtract them from your total score. You get all spent mana points back after you rest for at least 6 hours.

 Sounds good, but it also sounds like something players would complain about.

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What do you guys think of this function?

Instead of specific spells, there are mana points. Whenever you use magic, you decide how to use it, and then decide the effects. So let’s say I wanted to make a dragon made of fire come out of my hand and crash into the ground, burning everybody. The look would just be flavor, with it really have two effects, fire damage and area of effect. Both of these cost a specific amount of mana points. Add them together and subtract them from your total score. You get all spent mana points back after you rest for at least 6 hours.

 I like this, how would scaling work. More mana points equals more damage?

And what about control spells like control flames, or normal cantrip effects

 First one, yeah, if you want to increase the area of effect or damage output, you can spend more mana points to do so.

Second, spells like control flames and mold earth and such would be considered tier 1 magic, which doesn’t cost any mana points.

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What do you guys think of this function?

Instead of specific spells, there are mana points. Whenever you use magic, you decide how to use it, and then decide the effects. So let’s say I wanted to make a dragon made of fire come out of my hand and crash into the ground, burning everybody. The look would just be flavor, with it really have two effects, fire damage and area of effect. Both of these cost a specific amount of mana points. Add them together and subtract them from your total score. You get all spent mana points back after you rest for at least 6 hours.

 Sounds good, but it also sounds like something players would complain about.

 I’m going to try to create a sheet that shows each effect, how much they cost, and the effect scaling if that’ll help.

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What do you guys think of this function?

Instead of specific spells, there are mana points. Whenever you use magic, you decide how to use it, and then decide the effects. So let’s say I wanted to make a dragon made of fire come out of my hand and crash into the ground, burning everybody. The look would just be flavor, with it really have two effects, fire damage and area of effect. Both of these cost a specific amount of mana points. Add them together and subtract them from your total score. You get all spent mana points back after you rest for at least 6 hours.

 I like this, how would scaling work. More mana points equals more damage?

And what about control spells like control flames, or normal cantrip effects

 First one, yeah, if you want to increase the area of effect or damage output, you can spend more mana points to do so.

Second, spells like control flames and mold earth and such would be considered tier 1 magic, which doesn’t cost any mana points.

 Okay, and how would Mana points react with summoning spells.

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What do you guys think of this function?

Instead of specific spells, there are mana points. Whenever you use magic, you decide how to use it, and then decide the effects. So let’s say I wanted to make a dragon made of fire come out of my hand and crash into the ground, burning everybody. The look would just be flavor, with it really have two effects, fire damage and area of effect. Both of these cost a specific amount of mana points. Add them together and subtract them from your total score. You get all spent mana points back after you rest for at least 6 hours.

 I like this, how would scaling work. More mana points equals more damage?

And what about control spells like control flames, or normal cantrip effects

 First one, yeah, if you want to increase the area of effect or damage output, you can spend more mana points to do so.

Second, spells like control flames and mold earth and such would be considered tier 1 magic, which doesn’t cost any mana points.

 Okay, and how would Mana points react with summoning spells.

 Summon effect. The cost depends on how large the object or creature being summoned is, with the most expensive is gargantuan.

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What do you guys think of this function?

Instead of specific spells, there are mana points. Whenever you use magic, you decide how to use it, and then decide the effects. So let’s say I wanted to make a dragon made of fire come out of my hand and crash into the ground, burning everybody. The look would just be flavor, with it really have two effects, fire damage and area of effect. Both of these cost a specific amount of mana points. Add them together and subtract them from your total score. You get all spent mana points back after you rest for at least 6 hours.

 I like this, how would scaling work. More mana points equals more damage?

And what about control spells like control flames, or normal cantrip effects

 First one, yeah, if you want to increase the area of effect or damage output, you can spend more mana points to do so.

Second, spells like control flames and mold earth and such would be considered tier 1 magic, which doesn’t cost any mana points.

 Okay, and how would Mana points react with summoning spells.

 Summon effect. The cost depends on how large the object or creature being summoned is, with the most expensive is gargantuan.

 And for multiple creatures, like with necromancy spells

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What do you guys think of this function?

Instead of specific spells, there are mana points. Whenever you use magic, you decide how to use it, and then decide the effects. So let’s say I wanted to make a dragon made of fire come out of my hand and crash into the ground, burning everybody. The look would just be flavor, with it really have two effects, fire damage and area of effect. Both of these cost a specific amount of mana points. Add them together and subtract them from your total score. You get all spent mana points back after you rest for at least 6 hours.

 I like this, how would scaling work. More mana points equals more damage?

And what about control spells like control flames, or normal cantrip effects

 First one, yeah, if you want to increase the area of effect or damage output, you can spend more mana points to do so.

Second, spells like control flames and mold earth and such would be considered tier 1 magic, which doesn’t cost any mana points.

 Okay, and how would Mana points react with summoning spells.

 Summon effect. The cost depends on how large the object or creature being summoned is, with the most expensive is gargantuan.

 And for multiple creatures, like with necromancy spells

 No, summoning undead like zombies would be resurrection effect

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 Sup moon. Where’s sun?

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 No, summoning undead like zombies would be resurrection effect

 Okay, so say I wanted to summon several elemental creatures, would that be a summon effect along with a type effect. And if I wanted to summon multiple would a higher level allow more summons per mana-point or just give more mana points to use towards summoning

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After some thought the Mana Point system seems cool but I feel the balance would depend on how it scales with levels and with more mana points

That sounded so basic, what I meant is a person shouldn't be able to cast meteor swarm before they're able to

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 No, summoning undead like zombies would be resurrection effect

 Okay, so say I wanted to summon several elemental creatures, would that be a summon effect along with a type effect. And if I wanted to summon multiple would a higher level allow more summons per mana-point or just give more mana points to use towards summoning

 First off, yes, that would be summon and type effect. Secondly, it would give more mana points at higher levels to use towards summoning.

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After some thought the Mana Point system seems cool but I feel the balance would depend on how it scales with levels and with more mana points

That sounded so basic, what I meant is a person shouldn't be able to cast meteor swarm before they're able to

 I feel like I should mention this isn’t for dnd. It’s for the system I’m building for my Isekai tavern.

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After some thought the Mana Point system seems cool but I feel the balance would depend on how it scales with levels and with more mana points

That sounded so basic, what I meant is a person shouldn't be able to cast meteor swarm before they're able to

 I feel like I should mention this isn’t for dnd. It’s for the system I’m building for my Isekai tavern.

 That sounds awesome!

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After some thought the Mana Point system seems cool but I feel the balance would depend on how it scales with levels and with more mana points

That sounded so basic, what I meant is a person shouldn't be able to cast meteor swarm before they're able to

 I feel like I should mention this isn’t for dnd. It’s for the system I’m building for my Isekai tavern.

 That sounds awesome!

 Thanks. The mana point function is for casters, but I’m hoping to make another one for warriors. Maybe a Beast Tamer class.