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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Drifter Bob" data-source="post: 1734072" data-attributes="member: 17723">Shameless PlugIt's not exactly classy to toot your own horn, but the Primer of Practical Magic was designed with low magic in mind, there are 30 something cantrips for example, most of the spells are 1st -4th level, and there are lots of interesting minor magic items.  I use it in my campaign (not surprisngly) and honestly feel it grants a huge variety of interesting but fairly low powered magical options which can greatly enhance a low magic campaign in particular.  I always felt that there werentr enough cool options for low level spellcasters and spell / magic dabblers of various types.  I think the Primer fullfills this need quite a bit.Anyway, you can read Psions review here at ENworld to get a better idea about the Primer.I also like a lot of Pelgranes other books like cugels compendium and the excellent prismatic spray.  I like thievery and crime a lot in my campaigns and their stuff often focuses on really cool confidence games and tricks. I also perhaps ironically use and like Magic of Faerun a lot, as it has several useful and interesting low level spells (though not as many cantrips).I really liked several of Avalanche press' sourcebooks, especially their outsatnding Celtic World which is fantastic for setting a fairly low magic, realistic campaign in a very compelling, wondrous world setting.  Another interesting though flawed sourcebook was E.G.G.'s "Canting Crewe" which takes you into the Medieval criminal underworld in great detail.  Full of great flavor thoguh the art is distractingly bad.I do think Conan is a good idea though I agree the price is a major obstacle, as are a few of the problems with the 1st edition I saw.  Another good place to go are some of the other fantasy author sourcebooks.  Primer, listed above is Jack Vance stuff of course.  You may like the Melnibone books, the Cthulhu stuff, (the Chaosium material has lots of really interesting modules) and there are even some old Fafrhed and Grey Mouser material left around from 1E and 2E which you can find on Ebay.  I find all of these have good material for low magic campaigns in particular.It doesn't hurt to read the novels either.DB</blockquote>

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