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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gothmog" data-source="post: 726801" data-attributes="member: 317">I've been running a low magic world for 11 years, from 2E to 3E, and here are my mods.1)  Require that any PC who wants to cast spells take one of two feats at character creation:  Magical Adept or Divine Aegis.  The feats do the same thing, just one is for arcane magic, the other divine power.  Basically, a character has to have one of these feats in order to cast spells, period.  In addition, the feat can ONLY be taken at character creation, or under highly unusual circumstances, such as if the character is somehow infused with arcane/divine energy.2)  Since there are fewer magic items and beasties, spellcasters could be potentially omnipotent under usual D&D rules.  To even the playing field, put an upper spell level limit of 5 or 6, but require the highest two levels of spells to be ritual in nature- they take 10 times as long to cast.  In addition, bump all evocation spells up one level.  Finally, every spell requires a casting roll, qith a spellcraft DC of 10 + 2(spell level +1).  If the roll is failed, the spell doesn't go off, but the slot is not wasted unless a natural 1 is rolled, or unless the check is failed by 10 or more.3)  We didn't restrict item creation feat selection, but the GP and XP costs for making magic items are tripled.  In addition, simply plunking GP down to make a magic item doesn't fly- you have to find rare components totaling the GP value of the item.  Finally, for every 1000 XP of the item final value, the caster takes a temporary loss of 1 Con point.  Lost Con points return at the rate of one per week.I'm not crazy about enforcing one spellcaster level then one non-spellcaster level idea.  It seems like you'd be making a character that would be half as useful as another character in the group, especially since the character's main abilities would be nerfed (spellcasting).  Spellcasters as presteige classes seems workable and more fair to the player.</blockquote>

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