Ask a Faction Leader: Open call, volume 2

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8-24-2010 @ 5:23PM

Cyanea said...

Maybe you just don't understand how these things work. But I've been studying ancient texts for a long time, and if there's one thing that everybody knows about being a wizard, it's that you can only cast the good spells once a day. "

If this wasn't intended to be a FFOne reference, I will be sorely disappointed.

8-24-2010 @ 5:31PM

StClair said...

And here I thought it was a nod to an obscure little indie game (you might have heard of it) that goes by the initials D&D.

8-24-2010 @ 6:19PM

Hollow Leviathan said...

D&D? Nope, not ringing any bells. Is it anything like AD&D?

8-24-2010 @ 6:28PM

Prances in Underpantss said...

Dunk&Donuts?

8-25-2010 @ 1:49PM

Fallacy said...

It's called Pathfinder now.

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8-24-2010 @ 7:26PM

Sleutel said...

AD&D? Accidental Death & Dismemberment?

8-24-2010 @ 7:59PM

Jack Miles said...

Attention Deficit (and?) Disorder I believe.

The one spell a day thing is probably from the Baldurs gate games

or Neverwinter Night games...

Or the dragonlace books...

Or the Greyhawk novels...

Or the Dungeons & Dragons.... Miniatures Game .

8-25-2010 @ 1:51AM

JKWood said...

I suspect it was a reference to 8-bit Theatre's early days.

8-25-2010 @ 2:04AM

kasapina said...

Going on one foot here, but aren't NWN and BG part of the D&D multiverse?

8-25-2010 @ 6:00AM

Prances in Underpantss said...

@Kasapina

Yes, and Dragonlance is in the style of D&D.
And Greyhawk is a campaign setting for D&D.

8-25-2010 @ 8:42AM

Jack Miles said...

According to TvTropes, this style of "Fire and Forget" magic first originated in the book The Dying Earth by Jack Vance; hence why TvTropes refers to it as "Vancian Magic".

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VancianMagic

Also of note is that the Wizards in the Discworld books use this system.

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