Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 753175" data-attributes="member: 463">I've been creating a low magic swords & sorcery type campaign world.While the split-levels rule is a nice one, I decided that most spellcaster classes just didn't fit with the world I envisioned, so I've eliminated them and created a new, weaker one, the Black Wizard.  See:<a href="http://www.geocities.com/s.t.newman/TWILIGHT.htm" target="_blank">http://www.geocities.com/s.t.newman/TWILIGHT.htm</a>A nice presentation of my Black Wizard is at:<a href="http://hyboria.xoth.net/prestige-classes/black_wizard_npc.htm" target="_blank">http://hyboria.xoth.net/prestige-classes/black_wizard_npc.htm</a>The idea of rejigging what spell levels are gained by caster level came from these boards, sorry I can't recall whose idea it was.Basically, I created a spellcaster class balanced not against a non-spellcaster such as a Fighter or Barbarian with standard magic, but against a non-spellcaster with little or no magic.  Not that it's perfectly balanced by level - the Black Wizard is very weak below 3rd level, and still scarily powerful at higher levels vs a non-magical foe, but it's not like trying to use unmodified Clerics or Sorcerers in a low-magic game, where they totally dominate other classes.</blockquote>