d20 low-power sourcebooks?

[Red Spire Press]

Dark Legacies sounds interesting. It's not another steam/magic mixture, like the one from Witch Fire, is it?

DL is not a steampunk setting. Some marginal industrialization exists but it is handled in a much different fashion than IK or other similar settings. Some steam-powered items may exist but they'll be treated much as artifacts are treated in normal D&D. There are no firearms. DL also presents a significant reworking of arcane magic and "divine" miracles, crafted with real purpose. Not to mention all new races, classes, equipment upgrades, piecemeal armor, no alignment, blah blah etc etc. Again, all done with purpose rather than hobbled together. Suffice it to say it'll be quite splendid and presents a ton of crunch for anyone wanting to do low-magic as well as providing a wicked campaign setting if you want to use it. I really need to push for some new web updates *sigh*.

 

[SilentJay]

Ars Magica is a fairly low power rule system (very easy to modify) and it is free to. I think youcan get free pdf from rpgnet.com

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[Mistwell]

Personally, I really like Alchemy & Herbalism, by Bastion Press:

http://www.bastionpress.com/Products/alchemy.htm

While there are some rules for higher power magic items, most of the book is devoted to non-magic and low-magic uses of herbs and alchemical items. I think it would be very useful for a low-magic game.

And, it is quite well written, in my opinion (and no, I am not affiliated in any way with the authors or company, I just really like it).