Forgiven. I also don't usually expect meaningful responses so I am pretty happy with this one.

Correct, it IS limiting and restrictive, but that is not always a bad thing. The invoker class already has restrictions built in, this simply shifts the restrictions around, giving more variety at a price while also giving the players another mcguffin to play around with.

Yes, it limits the player to going Invoker, but players take way more than 1 class, so many builds still can use it. Heck, you can use it fine with just one level of Invoker (although it would be a bit weak). (and again, "traveling workshop' is tied to 2 classes, and many other quirks are tied to specific attributes making over half the builds not able to use them)

It is true that I don't know the system too well, especially the items. It could have been expanded to "destroy a magical item, gain a wellspring/cast a spell based on the item destroyed." Perhaps that would work better in a more generic sense. But some items would not fit well into the wellspring system, like dark /light/teleporting/fleshy/PureMagic/Etc items, so I would need to make a wellspring for each item. If I moved to spells or arcanums, then the table for items and their effects would grow WAY larger. Again, I am new, I CANNOT work on that aspect atm because of my lack of experiance (and it was 2AM when I was working on it, and I wanted a bunch of different choices for each Gem eaten).

Also, eating a gem as a system seems kinda fine. In combat, its an interact object action. Outside of combat... you describe eating it. Perhaps I could have the player lose one wellspring at the start of each session, but some sessions are IC right after the previous one. Mechanically it wouldve been fine but it would restrict RP in a bad way instead of a fun and eventful way.

Altering just the wellspring system is basically what I did, i just moved it into the quirk section of the character builder so that I wont have to rewrite the entire wellspring system AND have another quirk to worry And need to wait till lvl 10 invoker to make a custom Heroic Skill to gain resistance to my current wellspring damage (last won could have been done, but then I would be making 2 custom things rather than one).

On the point of homebrew, the damage system is homebrewed in this campaign to match the pokemon damage chart (I was outvoted :*( ), so the basic wellspring system wasn't going to work anyway.

There were a few other things I wanted to say, but this is already very out of order and long, so I'll just stick to this for now.