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Message: <blockquote data-quote="boredgremlin" data-source="post: 2210831" data-attributes="member: 31646">I have the old mage the ascension book. It has some neat ideas but it can be a big pain too. For those who havent read it, the 9 magic sheres (schools) are basically skills. Everything is on a scale of 0-5. 0 means you have no skill at all arent capable of that magic. All the other levels give you examples of what you could do but only about a dozen examples. for all 5 levels of capability. They work skills different. You roll a ton of D10's and have to have so many successes, but you could translate that over to a D20 DC pretty easy. The problem is that the DC changes depending on how big an effect you want, how far away it is, how much damage it should do and how long you want it to last. So basically every single time you cast a spell the wizard has to calculate a new spell DC. Its a really slow system if your character wants to do anything inventive. For real magic you could take a spells level, give it a DC for that level and make it a skill check, probably include magic points or something so he cant just cast spells all day long. For high danger and low danger magic you could break em up by spell level. Say low magic is 1-4 or whatever and all the rest is high magic. I had an idea once to make low style magic do subdual damage to the caster. And high magic did subdual and the caster had to make a will save or temporarly lose wisdom. Like he was going crazy with the magic. Maybe make it a permanent loss if you want to be real mean.</blockquote>

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