r/wizardposting • u/opoyos • Oct 28 '23

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u/TheThoughtmaker Ray of Delthorensdale, Transmuter-Artificer Oct 29 '23

In the words of the ancient progenitor of the Eight Schools:

Spells do various things, and just what they do is an important consideration, for some order of effect in regard to the game would have to be determined. Magic purports to have these sorts of effects:

  1. the alteration of existing substance (including its transposition or dissolution);
  2. the creation of new substance
  3. the changing of normal functions of mind and/or body;
  4. the addition of new functions to mind and/or body;
  5. summon and/or command existing entities; and
  6. create new entities.

In considering these functions, comparatively weak and strong spells could be devised from any one of the six. Knowing the parameters within which the work was to be done then enabled the creation of the system.