Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons will have a smaller set of spells with multiple uses rather than a large variety to make 'everything accessible on a controller,' Invoke says
THE SO WHAT
Shrinking D&D spell variety into a smaller, multi‑use set is the same trade many enterprise products will face with AI copilots and agents—fewer, more composable primitives beat sprawling feature catalogs. Design teams should be asking where complexity can be collapsed into reusable actions without losing depth for power users.
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