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In article <1992Dec16.220153@IASTATE.EDU>, cffitzge@IASTATE.EDU (Charles F Fitzgerald) writes:
|> I attempted to create such a system recently.  Magic was intended 
|> be extremely versatile, and players would create their own spells
|> as they went along.  I attempted to run it with some very 
|> inexperienced gamers, however, and the whole thing fell apart.
|> They had no idea what to do with the magic.  I believe, therefore,
|> that a role-playing system needs some written down spells in
|> order to get beginning players started.

Yeah, You need a fairly copius set of examples for a magic system based
on improvisation.  I did the same thing.  The players didnt really know
what magical skills to take and sort of found them to be useless during
play, until I said 'here, give me your sheet' and proceeded to outline a
bunch of spells the player could cast with his chosen skills.  After
that everybody said 'Oh yeah, I see...and promptly proceeded to come up
with humoungous amounts of useful spells, then an even more humungous
amount of humourous spells, as these sessions are prone to do.