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In an Earthdawn campaign I had an illusionist who had to do a practical joke prank each and every day to regain a kind or resource that was as important in that system as spell slot are in D&D. It was fun at first, but after exhausting thirty prank ideas, it was a drag, and after more than a...

A borderline argument could be made based on the Synthesist Summoner - who only need a free limb, not hand, to cast spells, when in a beast-shaped eidolon. The best way is probably to be careful about your spell selection, go for long-term buff spells, and temporarily change out of beast shape...

http://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/general-feats/fox-shape This is the feat the OP mentions and want to use. Note also that the use of a metamagic rod does not raise the spell level, which is why I suggested it above.

Silent metamagic Rod?

Sure! It's not a D20 system game, so its slightly off-topic, but in my "Maid the Roleplaying Game" campaign, which has surprised me by chugging along nicely weekly year after year, I've used a bunch. It's kind of Magical Charlie's Angels in the hidden supernatural world (think White Wolf's...

When I played Shadowrun, our GM had us track *every* *single* bullet, and what kind was loaded in each slot in magazines and ammo belts... After all, there were acquisition rolls, street index rolls, bargaining and more, which made purchases difficult, and time consuming. All this was...

Played 3.5 with bard-cleric-wizard and now Pathfinder with bard-sorcerer-barbarian without problems. For 3-player groups everybody must be able to make it, but with 4-5-groups we play with one player absent, and cancel with two absent, no matter what roles.

As several posters have pointed out, Use Magic Device really rules here; not only with wands and scrolls (cheaper than potions), but also with more special healing items that happens to turn up in random loot. In a 3.5 game my sorceress got hold of some beads that allowed her to cast Heal x...

Oh, there are so many details that can differ in playstyle even outside pure rules. The success failure of sneaking, for example, is entirely dependent on how often you have to roll stealth rolls. Too many rolls, and you will fail. Does the DM concentrate or spread fire when distributing...

Well, if you are supplying just arms and armor, you are giving the non-casters the necessary plusses, but denying them them the free selection of utilities - and difference in utilty choice is a common theme when caster-noncaster imbalance is discussed. Here I am assuming that you are not...

Kind of my point... :D I hear a lot about (1) but not about (2)... Another common thing people seem to do to "limit magic" is to forbid Item Creation Feats and item purchases. Guess what - the casters still get to pick their Utility Powers freely through their spell selection... but...

My opinion is that this has a lot to do with gp, rather than xp. Or rather, whether you are stingy or generous with magic items. Magic items, especially Wondrous Items, pretty much duplicate the utility value of spells; "Wings of Flying" are pretty similar to a Fly spell - except they are...

This. In 3.5 i played a sorceress pixie who had gained a bunch of touch healing through feats and Use Magic Device on cleric items. It was quite a thrill to tumble straight across the battlefield, across enemies lines, to deliver a much needed Panacea or Heal. I still remember how heroic I felt...

Played just such a wizard in the Dragonstar D20 fantasy/science fiction system. When the fighters have an unlimited supply of lazcannon shots and 6d6 handgrenades, even at low levels, damage spells just did not cut it. As that character also was a SoulMech in that system (think magical...

Sounds *very* reasonable!

See http://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/achievement-feats for such feats in Pathfinder.

The problem is when the player pool is limited, and some potential players ar strongly-opinioned; how do you work out a compromize in a way that maximize player participation?

Starfox: Extensive thread at http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?320249-Advice-for-way-of-the-wicked

Engaging description of what sounds like a great game! Sounds like classical 1E play indeed! I may be damaged by that kind of play too, but I always felt sneaking past opponents of unknown capabilities much more exciting than a set-up balanced encounters... :) :)

In a small, single-player explore-the-world campaign I run whenever I and that player miss out on our regular campaigns, I let my player find the secret of the elves; due to an not-so-ancient curse invoked by an order of clense-all-nonhumans knights (think 40k space marines) they are sterile...