Originally Posted by darkling
Feargus has never heard the term Vancian Magic?!?

*head spins*

Yeah I ended up reading the Dying Earth novels by Jack Vance because they're nodded to in the Hyperion books by Dan Simmons. Upon reading the first story in them I looked at the date of publication and said "Oh, well I always wonder where the heck the D&D designers came up with that goofy magic system."