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  2. Magic systems in games - Wikipedia

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    Spell-slot systems often employ a rationale that the spell is forgotten when cast, [5]: 240 or that the caster has a finite supply of the ingredients required to cast the spell. In the first case, the spellcaster must re-memorize the spell from a source, typically a grimoire. In the second case, the caster must find new ingredients and prepare ...

  3. Magic in Dungeons & Dragons - Wikipedia

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    Spellcasters can only cast a spell they know or have prepared if they have an available spell slot. This mechanic originated out of the Vancian magic system where "the number of memorized spells is strictly limited by the magician's memory capacity in proportion to the spells' difficulty levels, effectively granting a number of spell slots".

  4. Player's Option: Spells & Magic - Wikipedia

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    Player's Option: Spells & Magic is a supplement which focuses in detail on magic. [1] Spells & Magic is 192 pages in length, which includes an introduction, followed by eight chapters and four appendices. The introduction gives advice on how to integrate the material from the book into an ongoing campaign, and addresses factors such as the ...

  5. Magic (game terminology) - Wikipedia

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    In this system, the player character can only memorize a fixed number of spells from a list of spells. Once this spell is used once, the character forgets it and becomes unable to use it again. [1] [4] [5] [6] "Mana" is a word that comes from Polynesian languages with a complex meaning. Mostly, it loosely represents power, respect and dignity.

  6. The Last Spell - Wikipedia

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    The Last Spell is a tactical role-playing game in which players, as The Commander, control a small group of randomly generated heroes defending a town against hordes of undead. [5] The game purposefully features an asymmetric tactical imbalance, in that the player starts with three heroes yet must fight against hundreds of undead enemies.

  7. Paladin (Dungeons & Dragons) - Wikipedia

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    A paladin holds stealth, subterfuge, attack from the rear, missile weapons and especially poison as weapons of last resort. Occasional, necessary, minor deviations are permissible, but a single gross violation of his/her code of conduct will strip the paladin of powers until he/she atones. Acts of evil or alignment shift always qualify.

  8. List of Magic: The Gathering keywords - Wikipedia

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    When a spell with cascade is cast, its controller reveals cards from the top of their deck until a non-land card that has a lower converted mana cost is revealed. That player may then (in addition to the original spell) cast the revealed spell without paying its mana cost; all other revealed cards are put on the bottom of the deck in a random ...

  9. Gary Gygax - Wikipedia

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    In 2004, he had two strokes and narrowly avoided a subsequent heart attack; he was then diagnosed with an abdominal aortic aneurysm and died in March 2008 at age 69. Following Gygax's funeral, many mourners formed an impromptu game event which became known as Gary Con 0, and gamers celebrate in Lake Geneva each March with a large role-playing ...