A whimsical idea for spellcasting.....
Matt over at The Land of Nod made this post concerning the possible unique qualities of a wizard's brain, both living and dead. I found this to amazingly inspiring. After reading the phrase "..demands chocolate at any price", it struck me. The human brain burns a lot of calories when doing heavy thinking, problem solving and computation in particular. Specifically it burns glucose. What if casting spells burned an incredible amount of calories, so that the caster had to consume mass quantities of food and drink every day, or risk falling into a diabetic coma? I think this could be an interesting way of introducing some non-vancian magic to a campaign. Someday I'll have to develop an actual system around this concept.
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