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<blockquote data-quote="Brother MacLaren" data-source="post: 1695988" data-attributes="member: 15999">Hmm, I don't think so.&nbsp; What the PCs can do hasn't changed much at all.&nbsp; PC spellcasters are more powerful relative to the human NPC's because there isn't the magical arms race to provide defenses.&nbsp; But they may be less powerful than PC non-casters because they only have access to the spells they capture or invent (no libraries or automatic spells).&nbsp; I recognize that fighter-types are a little more dependent on magic items, but if you have a world with tens of thousands of years of history, even a rare-magic world will have many hundred items to be found.&nbsp; The rogue will be better off with rarer magic because there won't be as many alarm spells, wizard locked doors, or other magic means to defeat his abilities.&nbsp; The fighter won't run into as many Will save spells. I'd love to play a fighter-type in a world where magic is rarer - in fact, I think a fighter would thrive more in that environment because he wouldn't be continually victimized by fly-inv-fireball or hold person-CdG.&nbsp;&nbsp; Multiple fights per day, foes with SR, attacks in the night when the wizards are trying to rest, occasions when you don't want to let people know the party has magical capability (because the one other wizard in the kingdom would try to kill you), etc. I should say, I'm also envisioning a world where high-level NPCs are rare, not only high-level casters.&nbsp; The PCs are the elite superheroes, facing foes that most mortals never learn of (think X-Men, Buffy, something like that; perhaps more of a focus on monsters than NPCs.).&nbsp; &nbsp; So high-level status as a fighter is also exceptional and rare.&nbsp; I don't like magic to become commonplace and I don't like good-aligned NPC archmages sitting out there as a potential deus ex machina and making the PCs feel irrelevant.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Brother MacLaren, post: 1695988, member: 15999"] Hmm, I don't think so. What the PCs can do hasn't changed much at all. PC spellcasters are more powerful relative to the human NPC's because there isn't the magical arms race to provide defenses. But they may be less powerful than PC non-casters because they only have access to the spells they capture or invent (no libraries or automatic spells). I recognize that fighter-types are a little more dependent on magic items, but if you have a world with tens of thousands of years of history, even a rare-magic world will have many hundred items to be found. The rogue will be better off with rarer magic because there won't be as many alarm spells, wizard locked doors, or other magic means to defeat his abilities. The fighter won't run into as many Will save spells. I'd love to play a fighter-type in a world where magic is rarer - in fact, I think a fighter would thrive more in that environment because he wouldn't be continually victimized by fly-inv-fireball or hold person-CdG. Multiple fights per day, foes with SR, attacks in the night when the wizards are trying to rest, occasions when you don't want to let people know the party has magical capability (because the one other wizard in the kingdom would try to kill you), etc. I should say, I'm also envisioning a world where high-level NPCs are rare, not only high-level casters. The PCs are the elite superheroes, facing foes that most mortals never learn of (think X-Men, Buffy, something like that; perhaps more of a focus on monsters than NPCs.). So high-level status as a fighter is also exceptional and rare. I don't like magic to become commonplace and I don't like good-aligned NPC archmages sitting out there as a potential deus ex machina and making the PCs feel irrelevant. [/QUOTE]

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