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<blockquote data-quote="Inconsequenti-AL" data-source="post: 2486398" data-attributes="member: 6584">I liked the theory behind AU magic system... had a lot of funky ideas - particularly: Using a higher/lower level of spell slot to get different effects. Certain spells were recognised as more powerful and required a feat to learn, other groups just an expanded 'sphere' of magic. We played a campaign with it, but it never quite 'felt' right - not sure how that happened. I'd like to see the system transferred to core D20 spells.Psionics works nicely as a power point system, few janky bits in there, but overall I like it.Outside of D20, I really like both Ars Magica and Shadowrun systems. Although the only balance to AM is that everyone has a mage character - they're light years more impressive than normal people. Shadowrun is good, found it worked great for the setting and setting. IMO mages were well 'entertainment balanced' with other character types. A large part of this down to the way skills were picked - making it entirely possible for mages to have other areas of expertise to complement their magic.However, the core DnD system has a certain familiarity to it. It's like wearing comfortable old clothes. It may not look the best but it feels great. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Particularly like the way it works with sorcerors - a great 3rd ed addition IMO.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Inconsequenti-AL, post: 2486398, member: 6584"] I liked the theory behind AU magic system... had a lot of funky ideas - particularly: Using a higher/lower level of spell slot to get different effects. Certain spells were recognised as more powerful and required a feat to learn, other groups just an expanded 'sphere' of magic. We played a campaign with it, but it never quite 'felt' right - not sure how that happened. I'd like to see the system transferred to core D20 spells. Psionics works nicely as a power point system, few janky bits in there, but overall I like it. Outside of D20, I really like both Ars Magica and Shadowrun systems. Although the only balance to AM is that everyone has a mage character - they're light years more impressive than normal people. Shadowrun is good, found it worked great for the setting and setting. IMO mages were well 'entertainment balanced' with other character types. A large part of this down to the way skills were picked - making it entirely possible for mages to have other areas of expertise to complement their magic. However, the core DnD system has a certain familiarity to it. It's like wearing comfortable old clothes. It may not look the best but it feels great. :) Particularly like the way it works with sorcerors - a great 3rd ed addition IMO. [/QUOTE]

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