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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5483496" data-attributes="member: 2067">Why not go the other way with it?Fighters need to depend on magic swords they find in dungeons.Wizards need to depend on magic spells they find in dungeons.No one is going around forging +5 vorpal swords, no one is going around writing down Wish from scratch, characters don't automatically gain diverse powers and abilities as they level up, they need to gain them in dungeons (via treasure).There's also the other direction: that everyone crafts what they need as they level up. You get Fireball, I get +3 Weapons (you don't get them), our priest gets Cure Light Wounds, and we don't get any treasure. I think the former would be a boatload of fun to play, even though it futzes with story-minded and optimization-minded players. The latter would be better for them, but it would limit the random awesome you get.Perhaps a hybrid, where you get to craft/create/"gain from leveling" some quantity of your abilities, and you HAVE to find the rest....Fighters find swords (and gain exploits).Mages find tomes (and devise spells).Clerics discover relics (and are awarded prayers).Druids befriend beasts (and practice rituals).Necromancers devour souls (and develop experiments).The former is treasure you find, the latter is stuff that you gain automagically with levels, but all character types depend on both ways of gaining power (rather than fighters having it all from random treasure drops, and mages having it all from developing their own spells).</blockquote>

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