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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arrgh! Mark!" data-source="post: 2681135" data-attributes="member: 14559">I think the ideas are pretty cool. About the magic - I'd suggest you remove evocation, not divination. Force all wizards to specialise. Divination isn't bad. Most of the powerful spells have potential risks. Evocation makes the game suddenly go from deep greens and blacks to four-colour superhero. Divination gives wizards what wizards always have had; knowledge they shouldn't. It makes them mysterious.I've never thought Gods should have character classes or be in the direct combat league of anyone; or personified for that matter. Thats just me, though; I think treating gods as basically epic-level characters is silly. I would support the lack of a raise dead spell. However, this does things to high-level games that are quite nasty. A system that I stole from someone was the first time someone reached -10 hp, they choose to die or take a horribly scarring wound (-1d4 con and cha). Your theories for making a grim-tales style world seem fair enough to me. Grim tales tends to let characters at low levels have different abilities as well, which is good.</blockquote>