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Rote-Casting is a learnable Mystery, that is one way for a character to specialize in a few favorite low-level spells, so that spellcasting Fumbles for these spells will tend to be less severe.

== Learning Rote-Casting ==
The character must learn the Lore of Rote-Casting once. After he has learned this Lore, he must spend 4 non-consecutive Hours per pick to memorize a more detailed and safer casting procedure for any spell that he knows (at at least the 10% [[Partially Learned Spell|Partial]] stage), until he has spent all his picks.

The character gets a number of picks equal to his [[Intelligence]] (Mnemonic) plus one, at a cost of one Mystery Slot. If more picks are desired, the charcter can spend further Mystery Slots. This is known as taking multiple instances of Rote-Casting, each additional Mystery Slot spent giving another amount of picks equal to I(Me)+1.

Each Spell costs 1 pick per spell level, and each Greater Spell costs 2 picks per spell level. The chosen spells are referred to as Rote-Memorized Spells.

=== Reference Table ===
This table simply shows all possible spell levels, along with their cost in picks, their time to memorize, and their period to Un-Learn

(Insert table here, for SL 1-6 and GSL 2-6)

== Lore of Rote-Casting ==
the stats for the Lore go here.

== Benefits of Rote-Casting ==
The effect of Rote-Casting is that 4 levels of [[Spell Safety]] is added to all Rote-Memorized Spells and Greater Spells, so as to make Fumble consequences less severe.

The character may use any other [[Casting Options]] with Rote-Memorized Spells, along with Rote-Casting.

== Drawbacks of Rote-Casting ==
Casting a Rote-Memorized spell takes twice as long. This time is further modified by Casting Options in the regular way, i.e. moving up or down the [[TSS]] because of the Slow-Casting or Fast-Casting Options. A character cannot choose to cast a spell that he has Rote-Memorized in the normal way, except if he Un-Learns all instances of Rote-Casting that he has.

=== Examples (Ex I) ===

== Un-Learning Rote-Casting ==
Un-Learning merely requires an act of will, and a period of X Days of not casting each Rote-Memorized spell, where X starts at a value of 1 for 1st level Spells and 2 for 1st level Greater Spells, and doubles for each higher spell level. A character may choose to Un-Learn only one or several instances of Rote-Casting, he does not have to Un-Learn all his instances of Rote-Casting. He simple chooses a number of instances, 1 or higher, up to how many he has, and for each instance, he must immediately choose a number of spell levels equal to his I(Me)+1 to unlearn.

If the character does use one or several of the spells before the period is over, then those spells are still Rote-Memorized, and at least 1 instance of Rote-Casting is not Un-Learned. If the spells that were used during the period "cost" more than 1 instance of Rote-Casting, then however many instances are required fail to be Un-Learned, and the character is free to try again.

=== More Examples (Ex II) ===

== Noticing Rote-Casting ==



== Advice ==
Rote-Casting is great for a beginning spellcaster, but is not really needed for a serious caster, who has better things to spend his precious [[Mystery Slots]] on. Many spellcasting characters use Rote-Casting early in their lives but then Un-Learn it once they feel that they no longer need it (it also carries a stigma of the caster being of limited skill; it is a Mystery for apprentices, not for master mages!).

It is quite common for a player creating a skilled spellcaster to write in the backstory that the character used Rote-Casting for a period of time (and quite likely that he tried to keep it secret from everyone, but didn't manage to perfectly) and then that he at a later time chose to Un-Learn it, feeling that he had grown beyond the need for it. All the player has to do is to consider whether he wants to pay the [[SP]]s for [[Lore of Rote-Casting]] or not. If he does not, then the character has forgotten the Lore, and therefore must learn it again before he can make use of it to pick new spells for Rote-Casting, but this is common, and the character really misses out on nothing, as the Lore is quite unattractive to skilled casters, save perhaps ones with very high Mnemonic [[Intelligence]] (consider the possibility of Rote-Memorizing a 5th or 6th level Spell, or even a 4th level Greater Spell).

== Please Note ==
Rote-Casting has nothing to do with fire-and-forget-style spell memorization. The character also cannot switch spells easily; he must decide which Rote-Memorized spells to forget and then go through the period of non-use to forget the Rotes, then after that he can memorize different spells at the cost of 4 Hours per pick.

== See Also ==
[[Rote Cantrip]]<br>
[[Slow-Casting]]<br>
[[Spellcasting Fumbles]]

[[Category:Mysteries]]
[[Category:Spellcasting Mysteries]]

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