Poetry-based magic

[JimmyB]

It would be interesting if only one magical poem can be successfully recited at one time, the loudest being the victor. So in a magical duel, you'd have poets trying to speak over each other as loud as possible without harming the flow of their recitation. In other words, seomthing like song magic. Just a thought.

Hadn't actually considered poetical combat, but now that you mention it...

The rules that I've drafted up for it work essentially like a wizard's duel (changing forms to find the superior one, each time trying to counter the other person's form while increasing your own) in that each poet spouts off poems at the other, taking it in turns until one of them runs out of Inspiration, gives up, or can't think of something else to say.