This one is an untested idea.
What if the spell slot tables for casters in OSE and other such
games was instead their x-in-6 chance of retaining spells of that level
after casting it?
Okay, surely this has been done before, right? But if anyone's talked about it online, I could not find it. If you know of anywhere this already exists, feel free to let me know in the comments. If you've tried it yourself, by all means share your experiences!
Anyway, I will likely give this a go the next time I run a game in the B/X family. Vancian magic is probably my players' least favorite part of games that use it, and I'd like to see the fun they'll have casting every spell they know at least once, maybe more, a day. Would this get messy in high-level play? Probably, but we've never reached high level before wandering over to another game. I'll cross that bridge if we come to it.
Also, I much prefer roll to retain vs roll to cast. My tables have played roll to cast games a bunch over the years, and none of us particularly enjoy that aspect. I've taken to houseruling roll to retain into any such game we play. Null results won't stop me from playing something, but the less there are the better if you ask me.
P.S. Yes I know in Old School Essentials that would mean a 14th level Cleric would be able to cast infinite level 1 spells. That sounds really cool to me.
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