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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4019443" data-attributes="member: 19675">I've been thinking about this kind of stuff for my own campaign WIP.For ideas, you might consider looking at the Fatigue system found in Unearthed Arcana and Spellfire (feat & PrCl) from Forgotten Realms.The former lets casters shape raw magic into spells, but it makes them tired.  The latter lets casters absorb energy from spells targeted at them to power an energy-bolt power or healing.As for wild magic/dead magic, look at the 2Ed & 3Ed versions.  Have surges work kind of like Metamagic Maximization or Expansion or some such (possibly even having a randomly determined metamagic feat applied to the spell...a die roll a Wild Mage PrCl could attempt to influence).I'd consider using Ley Lines in such a world, possibly similar to the ones in RIFTS and other RPGs.  On or near such a ley line, your magic power increases...and at a Nexus where 2 or more meet, it increases greatly.  Away from such an area, perhaps magic is virtually impossible, or incredibly difficult to control.A lot of these different rolls mentioned above could be handled with Spellcraft checks with situational, ability, or class-based modifiers.Perhaps tapping into the power forever changes the ones who shape it...the semi-sentient mana changes the wielders in some way.  Terry Brooks does something like this with his Shadowen in Shannara.  Perhaps the downside to magic use is enough to keep non-using classes viable.3.X already has a nice "mutations" ruleset in the form of Geomancer "Drift."  Just change the details.</blockquote>

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