“I have spent time in the morning casting every part of the Fireball spell except the final trigger word four times, I need to rest and pre-cast it again.”
Makes sense, in other magic systems, casters often have to recite the spell for a long ass time before casting. Would suck for DnD tho, imagine waiting 5 rounds of your friends taking a long ass time to do something basic while you stand there murmuring
That’s the fluff of how the Vancian spellcasting worked for wizards in 3.5, and I keep it as my headcanon for 5th as well. It’s not perfect, but is better than “whoops, forgot how to cast the spell even though I have my book of cheat sheets right in front of me!”
“I have spent time in the morning casting every part of the Fireball spell except the final trigger word four times, I need to rest and pre-cast it again.”
Makes sense, in other magic systems, casters often have to recite the spell for a long ass time before casting. Would suck for DnD tho, imagine waiting 5 rounds of your friends taking a long ass time to do something basic while you stand there murmuring
That’s the fluff of how the Vancian spellcasting worked for wizards in 3.5, and I keep it as my headcanon for 5th as well. It’s not perfect, but is better than “whoops, forgot how to cast the spell even though I have my book of cheat sheets right in front of me!”