Topic: Individual spell purchasing option in RoCo III

[Marrethiel]

You do have to buy the blank slots, however we interpreted it like RMSS in that you can purchase over your level because this is treated more as a skill than spell picks.
The beauty of the Arcist is that you have no blank spots because you chose individual spells from where ever you want.
Over all I'm not a fan of individual spell picks, we let all classes add their stat bonus to spell list acquisition to reduce the Dev cost.

[Skaran]

In our games, which have always used individual spell purpose I don't place a restriction on the number of lists that spells can be purchased from, for most spell users the cost is a starred one in anycase.. If the mage wants to spen all their development points on spells that is their option but they won't be very good  at anything else!

[yammahoper]

Individual spells are still cheap even if the blank slots must be purchased.

For example, 10 dev gets a list to level 10.  In the old way, all ya got was a 50% to learn the list.

After level 20 there are more blanks, but the return is still excellent.  Also, a mid to high level spell user can spend entire levels of dev learning spells since his lore skills and such are probably already well developed.

It also allows a list to be learned partially, say level 2 or level 11 for example.

I have also seen individual spell development in RMSS leads to knowing 15 spell list.  Five list are developed 3 levels, then five other, then five other, then the original five are developed 3 lv3ls, etc.  The result is 15 list to level, with some exceptions as list are learned piecemeal (Invisible Ways to lvl 4 is common, Anticipations to lvl 2 also, etc).

I started using the rule in RM2 with SUC.  I was glad RMSS/FRP adopted it.

[Green Manalishi]

I use individual spell development, similar to RoCoIII but adjusted it. I didn't get get some of the costs ended up being more than just buying 20 ranks? So I made my own costs that I feel are balanced.
I did go with starting costs at 2/*, but did not make them pay for empty levels.

[Tamans]

Empty slots in RoCo III cost 1dp. I find it very reasonable...