Is it possible to make up for less magic with higher ability scores?
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While I've not tried it myself, I do believe such a thing would work. It would require that the DM give feats, as well as ability "bumps" far more regularly than the current game suggests.
As to precisely how often, well, someone would have to sit down and calculate the numbers, see how bonus feats and higher abilities stack up against the "big six" items at various levels and magic item values. So far, I haven't felt up to doing the work, but it certainly is doable.
I'd also suggest allowing certain feats to stack, or to be taken more than once, or creating new feats to fill some magic item gaps. For instance, I think the Weapon Focus/Improved Weapon Focus chain would need a few more levels to truly make up for a dearth of magic weapons.
As to precisely how often, well, someone would have to sit down and calculate the numbers, see how bonus feats and higher abilities stack up against the "big six" items at various levels and magic item values. So far, I haven't felt up to doing the work, but it certainly is doable.
I'd also suggest allowing certain feats to stack, or to be taken more than once, or creating new feats to fill some magic item gaps. For instance, I think the Weapon Focus/Improved Weapon Focus chain would need a few more levels to truly make up for a dearth of magic weapons.
I'm playing in a low magic game right now where the DM instituted Chris Schubert's "It's you, not your gear" rules:
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dd/20051216a
Stephen “Shoe” Schubert, Developer
It’s You, Not Your Gear: Treasure is reduced 10-15% and permanent ability score boosting items are banned. Instead, characters get a stat increase at every even level (instead of every four levels) and a feat at every odd level.
It's been somewhat humorous, sometimes, because we played a lot of high level, high octane, high fantasy, high magic games for a while and the DM completely creamed us with most of the combat encounters for a while until he got used to the lower magic level.
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dd/20051216a
Stephen “Shoe” Schubert, Developer
It’s You, Not Your Gear: Treasure is reduced 10-15% and permanent ability score boosting items are banned. Instead, characters get a stat increase at every even level (instead of every four levels) and a feat at every odd level.
It's been somewhat humorous, sometimes, because we played a lot of high level, high octane, high fantasy, high magic games for a while and the DM completely creamed us with most of the combat encounters for a while until he got used to the lower magic level.
