Discworld D20

Shadowdragon

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Since I can't do a search because I'm not a community supporter (I'm not interested in paying for features provided for free on most other forums) I was wondering if someone could post links to threads discussing a D20 setting based on Terry Pratchett's Discworld books, if any exist. I'm interested in creating a setting myself (with some help from the copy of GURPS Discworld I own) but am having some difficulty balancing new races, classes, etc so I would like to see what others have done.
 

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A new magic system would need to be made as well, since discworldian magic is CONSIDERABLY different from D&D. I mean, you've got to worry about conservation of energy and mass, just for STARTERS. All transformations wear off after a day, and to make matters worse, you have to have magic before you can cast it... which I gather requires either being in a magic rich enviornment, or spending XP. Staves are also used more extensively, in order to store up magic. And then we've got Sourcerers...

Yeah. A few changes need to be made.
 




I didn't think Discworld magic worked that differently from D20 magic. I don't think it would cost xp each time a wizard or witch cast a spell or anything like that. Wizards and Witches learn spells and then cast them. Spellcasting is possible because of the massive amount of magic that saturates the Discworld. I just have to find out if a spell burns itself out of the casters mind after it's cast, or if a wizard can learn a spell and then cast it as many times as they want. Some spells will have to be modified (polymorphs only last a short time, creatures being teleported must have a "counterweight", etc), but for the most part it wouldn't be that hard to alter. Of course, this is going off of the GURPS book, and the bits about magic in the novels themselves. If you got your information from someplace else please tell me where so I can check it out.

As for Sourcerers, there no way I'm letting someone play a sourcerer character. If I use one as an NPC I will only ever have one show up in the campaign, just for one adventure, and he would be VERY powerful.

Most Dwarven Battle Bread would be similar to regular weapons, except with a different hardness rating (then again, dwarven bread may have the same hardness as steel). Dwarves would even sharpen their bread to use them as daggers, swords, etc.
 

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