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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6544483" data-attributes="member: 996">That's hardly 'low magic.'  Magic isn't pervasive in the setting as a whole like in FR or The Magic Goes Away or the plane of Perv in the Myth Adventures setting, but it is very powerful, present in items and in the surviving flora & fauna of the world, and something sufficiently interested and talented people can master if they study it.Vance was one of the key inspirations for D&D, and while D&D has tended to give mid-level PC casters many more spells than even the greatest Dying Earth magicians ever dreamed of trying to pack into their poor brains at once, it does, in general, go for the same idea of magic:  That it's memorized or 'prepared,' activated with a relatively short spoken spell, and present in magic items, mostly of much earlier ages, and that the current age is a relative 'dark' age where adventurers scrounge around for bygone power.So, really, it's an excellent candidate for what you're going for.  Calling it 'low' magic probably confused people.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> 5e harkens back to the high mortality, but only at the lowest levels, so dole out experience slowly.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Cantrips definitely are at odds with the Vancian vision of magic. Spells are meant to be very potent, and a wizard who's emptied his brain of spells is meant to be magically helpless, but for any ancient items he's managed to scrounge up.  You might want to do away with Cantrips, or have them use up a 1st level slot in return for being able to cast the Cantrip for an encounter.  If you want to cast the more powerful, multi-die-damage cantrip that you get at higher level, burn a higher level slot.   Cleaving closely to the Dying Earth would mean Wizards - and arcane tricksters and eldritch knights and perhaps bards.  The Sorcerer concept is right out, being a sort of walking 'high magic' event.  Warlocks and Divine types could be jacked into some bygone power source, like a Krell Thought Machine or mad immortal wizard who fancies himself a God, but that's flirting with 'higher magic,' as well.Another possibility, rather than banning a caster class outright, is to allow it only as a later multiclass, after 2nd or 3rd or some other level threshold.</blockquote>

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