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Self-plug away! This is the thread for it if it is low-magic! I especially love alternate rule sets and details! Off to DTRPG to DL it!
Earthdawn did this but with a big magic setting. It is a good way to have items unlock as you gain levels and grow in power to match PCs but can also be cumbersome if multiple PCs have their own quests or if this is for everything.
Maybe pick and choose specific magical items, or only do that for wonderous items or particularly powerful ones? Artifacts tend to have this built in more than wonderous items for obvious reasons--artifacts are literally deus ex machina.
A bit off-topic, but I just wanted to say that I absolutely loved Buy the Numbers. Unless I'm misremembering, it was the first product to turn the d20 System's class-level progression into a point-buy system, and was quite revolutionary in that regard.
Unfortunately, it doesn't specify (beyond the Fighter Basic Training feat specifying that you count half of your total character level as being fighter levels for the purposes of qualifying for feats, prestige classes, and so on).
If you do, and they respond, please update us here! lol I'd love to know. I'd tend to think it would be allowed as the feats would replace the spellcasting level for clerics. This would be a very rare case, though, as the Mystic Theurge itself is a bit of a rare prestige class, I'd say probably reserved for priests of gods of magic and and the like.Unfortunately, it doesn't specify (beyond the Fighter Basic Training feat specifying that you count half of your total character level as being fighter levels for the purposes of qualifying for feats, prestige classes, and so on).
Since the book specifies that you can only take the "variant multiclassing feats" for a single class, but does say you can still use traditional multiclassing (i.e. taking levels in other classes when you gain a level), then theoretically there's no reason why you couldn't take levels in (for example) wizard, and also take multiclass feats for cleric so that you can gain enough clerical spellcasting to then take levels in mystic theurge.
Doing so, however, would be less than ideal. In order to take the Cleric Spells II feat (which gives you the ability to cast 3rd-level clerical spells), you need to have taken two prior feats (Cleric Orison and Cleric Spells I) and be at least 11th level (which is one of the prerequisites for Cleric Spells II). Even then, it's questionable if you'd gain new clerical spell slots by taking levels in mystic theurge, as (depending on how literally you want to read it) that prestige class says it grants new spells per day as if you'd gained a level in your spellcasting class for arcane and divine spells...and your divine spells are coming from a feat rather than a class feature (even if it's modeling a class feature). On the other hand, you could say that since those feats are built around multiclassing into that class, then you would gain more slots and higher-level spells...it's unclear.
I wonder if I should post that in the discussion area on that product's DTRPG sales page?
The party never ended. 3.0/3.5e/OGL was the best that ever was if for no other reason than the sheer amount of 3rd-party material available for it with alternate rulesets and countless ways to tweak things. There were books for every possible flavor, from running tournaments with jousts and games like dwarf-toss to building fully fleshed-out medieval economies.
