User blog comment:Nelthro/Origin of TES RP Rules/@comment-29458028-20141205102323

Ah well, might as well comment on the Thu'um rule, because we all know that it actually makes less sense than you think when considering some shouts. (even though yes, it is necromancy)

For example, a Soul Tear shout without the third word is practically useless since it needs all three words to function, or else it does nothing (not counting call dragon(s) in here since those are not really shouts)

On the contrary, there are many OP shouts that only need one or two words. Examples include Storm Call (massive AoE attack for one word) Dragon aspect (massive one word self buff) and Ice Form(one word disable) and such. In RP context, they would still be OP (obviously).

An then the special case of Bend Will, which is OP with exactly two words, since well, it is a free mind control. The third word is pointless since we don't really have many dragon characters and the first word is well, useless.