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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mosaic" data-source="post: 3205023" data-attributes="member: 30300">cool idea.  i'm fairly new at all this and no rules expert so this is the way i have to wrap my brain around it:the caster level check (1d20+caster level) is just like a magic attack roll. isn't a fighter's attack just 1d20+fighter leve?and the DC10 is like a magic armor class.  it seems like spell resistance, whether granted by magical ideas or inheriant abilities, would just be armor class bonuses.for me, it is easier to think of the +(spell levelx2) on the difficulty side as a -(spell levelx2) from the attack side, making it more like the penalties one incurs for using an off-handed weapon or a weapon withwhich one isn't proficient.  it's a 'problem' for the caster, not an aspect of the defenter.finally, a 'missed' magical attack wouldn't actually miss the target, it would just fizzle or go awry.for me, it's easier to use a system that closely mirrors an existing system rather than a wholely new one, but does this lose something intended by the original?i don't know how metamagic would fit into this, but i love the idea of taking 10 and 20 being rituals.  D&D magic seems to lack rituals for the most part and those are a big part of myth and legend.  also, could you have critical successes or critical failures?again, cool idea!</blockquote>