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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 3498728" data-attributes="member: 19675">1) One way to make spellcasters rare is to make it &quot;cost&quot; something.&nbsp; A ritual + gold + whatever you deem neccessary.&nbsp; Perhaps the ritual causes permanent HP or ability damage.2) In Stormbringer, being a spellcaster depended on some random dice rolls to determine whether a PC had any innate ability.&nbsp; In that ruleset, you had to have innate ability and THEN you had to study.&nbsp; Mere ability or mere study was insufficient- you had to have both.In D20 you could emulate that by making any would-be arcane caster take a HR feat (or tweek an extant one, like Magical Aptitude, PHB p 97) at first level- No PC or NPC who didn't take that at 1st level could cast arcane spells.Stormbringer didn't distinguish between arcane &amp; divine magic, but D&amp;D does.&nbsp; So if you feel that divine casters need a similar limitation, make would-be divine casters take a HR feat called Divine Calling (though I wouldn't make it a 1st Lvl only feat- gods have the ability to break the rules)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 3498728, member: 19675"] 1) One way to make spellcasters rare is to make it "cost" something. A ritual + gold + whatever you deem neccessary. Perhaps the ritual causes permanent HP or ability damage. 2) In Stormbringer, being a spellcaster depended on some random dice rolls to determine whether a PC had any innate ability. In that ruleset, you had to have innate ability and [I]THEN[/I] you had to study. Mere ability or mere study was insufficient- you had to have both. In D20 you could emulate that by making any would-be arcane caster take a HR feat (or tweek an extant one, like Magical Aptitude, PHB p 97) at first level- No PC or NPC who didn't take that at 1st level could cast arcane spells. Stormbringer didn't distinguish between arcane & divine magic, but D&D does. So if you feel that divine casters need a similar limitation, make would-be divine casters take a HR feat called Divine Calling (though I wouldn't make it a 1st Lvl only feat- gods have the ability to break the rules) [/QUOTE]

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