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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SWBaxter" data-source="post: 2053623" data-attributes="member: 27926">Lots of games that try. Usually, they use some combination of: - spontaneous spell generation, by which I mean rather than preset spells the caster describes an effect and the GM figures out what rolls need to be made to achieve that effect - nasty and unpredictable side effects that increase with the level of magic attempted - limited access to magic - unbalanced power levels, in that magic is more powerful than other pursuits at a tradeoff in terms of risk Games that do some or all of this include (but are not limited to) Ars Magica, Mage, Call of Cthulhu, The Riddle of Steel, HeroQuest, Sorcerer, and even some fantasy implementations of GURPS and Hero. Some d20/OGL products, like Midnight, Conan, and The Wheel of Time (among others) also try to capture this sort of feel.</blockquote>