02-09-2016, 12:50 PM
(02-09-2016, 11:58 AM)Surge Wrote: Sudden idea to kind of expand of phoenix's magic system. What if you increase the cost of most spells, but allow people to meet the cost with infused items, mana batteries if you will.I agree.
Basically on the lower end you can readily acquire a sort of generic mana battery, we'll say a crystal, the larger it is the more it holds, but more powerful mages can enchant anything to function as a crude repository for magical energies.
So your average novice mage can cast a handful of mid level spells based on how many batteries he has on hand, but afterwards he has to manually recharge them through a sort of channeling spell to concentrate energies from any nearby life into the battery, but the spell has to be cast very slowly to avoid actually harming the life you're kinda borrowing life force from.
Many more experienced mages can also embed a specific spell into an item storing mana, so you could create persistent effects with a short to moderate enchantment ritual.
I've almost certainly had this idea and talked about it before but I like it.
Personally I like the idea of something that can be done wrong for someone not thinking things through and that could also end in killing something.