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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jürgen Hubert" data-source="post: 1860203" data-attributes="member: 7177">One of my pipe dreams is to one day develop a "future history" of <a href="http://juergen.the-huberts.net/dnd/urbis/index.html" target="_blank">Urbis</a> (I know, I know, I should probably worrying about completing the current setting...), with more advanced technology.And I'd like to use the d20 Modern rules because I think that the classical D&D rules and classes would be no longer appropriate for such a high-tech setting. But there are a few stumbling blocks here.First of all is that spell-casting PCs in d20 Modern tend to be less powerful than their D&D counterparts - which isn't surprising, considering they can only start to cast spells at 4th level as opposed to the first. Yet it would make sense if the spellcasters became more powerful rather than less thanks to several centuries of spell research.I have thought of this solution: The d20 Modern spellcasting prestige classes can still only be taken at 4th level at the earliest. But they no longer have to prepare their spells in advance, but can cast them spontaneously like the sorcerer. This might keep them balanced with "older" characters in overall power...What are your thoughts on this? Does this sound like a good solution to the dilemma? Or do you have any other ideas?</blockquote>