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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Inez Hull" data-source="post: 722496" data-attributes="member: 5114">One way of capping the level of spell accessable to a caster would be to cap attributes at their starting level. That's right, no stat gains every fourth level and no wishes or magic items that increase stats. This would give casters a limit of what spell level they can ever access determined by their natural talent - their spellcasting stat. In this way casters like Goblin & One-eye might have gotten to high levels but because of intelligence scores of say 14 - 16 were denied ever accessing the really big gun spells. Perhaps each spell level gained could also result in a -1 penalty to wisdom. Wizards with a high starting wisdom can go on to become powerful and still retain some sense of sanity but those with low wisdom to start with degenerate to become like some of the taken or shadowmasters, who were completely mad.</blockquote>