[Enginseer-42]

Y'all going on about the lore importance of tomes when this shit was a retcon that did not exist for two separate games.

Yeah, and in two separate games you'd run into people with some crazy ass mishmash of 3-4 different trees on their bar so they could stomp people into the dirt with no real coherent narrative behind it. You would just buy spells, with no bar to entry, and if they didn't quite fit into your chosen motif? Who cares they aren't hidden you don't have to RP having it.

It's not an RP decision, it's a mechanical decision. "I want this spell to win fights with."

Personally, I really want to see something where people actually focus around something.

Also, the tomes themselves might not be RP'd. But you can bet that the people who get an advanced magic certainly seem more proud of them in character. Sure, nobody's writing home about being a fire magi, but an explosion magi will be sure to tell you about it and how special they are. Same for a metal mage.

I'll agree that perhaps an admin app might not be the best way (Personally, I think it would be cool to have there be some kind of neutral 'Master' character for each element/magical archetype that just teaches people spell by spell.)