Sickos who dislike the idea of one spell list for each field could
write one monster spell list containing ALL the spells from GURPS Magic.
This might require more then 5 basic divisions.  D&D-heads might favor the
number 9; ah, the good old days of first-level through 9th-level spells...
	Cantrips would be a good idea; nearly-useless 1st rank spells, perhaps
Mental/Average or even Mental/Easy.  Such as Visually Impressive Illusory 
Juggling for the Illusion list, or Treat Wart for the Healing list.
	High-end spells would be a good idea, for us power gamers who miss
calling down Flame Strike on the bastard in plate armor...  Toss these into
the fifth or sixth rank, give them insanely high casting times or fatigue
costs, and we've got Merlin.
	Wizards should be able to improvise spells.  Not having much dealt with
casters that powerful, the question hasn't come up.


	Thaumatechnology: one could envision different `tech levels' of 
secular magic.  (Religious magic would remain constant, presumably) I propose:

	0:   Innate magical abilities only. (Incl. "celestial magic" as used
	     in this document.)
	1-2: Magic-field theories.  (IE: Fire Magic theory, taught and used
	     by the Fire Guild.)
	3:   Limited metafield theories.  (IE: cross-disipline work by College
	     of Fear.)
	4:   Integrated magic.  (IE: GURPS Magic prerequisite system-- any
	     spellcaster knows enough theory to learn any spell.)
	4.5: Designed spells (cf. Fantasy Hero.)
	5:   Magical equivalent of Industrial Revolution-- converting natural
	     power sources to mana.  For example, a water wheel could be hooked
	     to some bizarre converter to produce a ready source of mana to
	     recharge powerstones or maintain a spell.
	6+:  Further integration of `magic' and technology.  At some point
	     `magic' would become a subfield of physics and engineering.  At
	     some point perhaps we'd get a thermodynamic explanation of magic--
	     where the devil does that magic fire come FROM, for crying out 
	     loud?

	I personally deplore mixing common magic and high technology (from a 
dislike-the-genre point of view,) and I beg of you to never, never do it.
But it might be interesting for one state/continent to make an advance in 
magical theory and be freed from the spell-list constraints.  Note that 
thaumatech might not be tied to real tech; using the scales above, a Fantasy 
Hero world would be TL/3 but thaumatech TL/4.5.  Or maybe the real world is 
TL/7, thaumatech TL/0...


	Please, please, if you like this stuff, write up more lists and zap
them to me or the net.  Idiosyncratic lists particularly; when my megalomania
acts up I see this framework as empowering us to easily implement bizarre 
mages under GURPS.  Clerics as well; my world isn't rich in deities, but the 
list idea would simplify the lives of GMs running divinity-panthenon faiths.