Urban Arcana's new mgic system

[Felon]

thank you Spatula. Next time I'm in my FLGS I'll look it over in depth. I'll look through the whole setting, but I'm not sure if it's worth buying the whole book if I only want to incorporate on mechanic.

It's not, IMO. You pretty much know the basics just from this thread. Incantations served as a good method of restricting the ease with which D&D characters perform such routine tasks as, say, raising the dead or teleporting anywhere in the world or divining the answer to any question, without removing these effects from UA altogether.

But the DC's provided are extreme. It's strictly high-end stuff, not really designed for downward scalability.

Also, as you cans see in the "D20 Modern FAQ" thread in this forum, Charles Ryan states that incantantations are not designed to be provide a practical form of offense. Which would make sense were it not for the fact that many of the incantations detailed in UA are of a decidedly offensive nature.

 

[psychognome]

The whole incanatation thing reminded me a bit of the magic system in For Faerie Queen and Country (Amazing Engine) basically Victorian Arcana (hmm another idea forming).

Shouldn't be too difficult to adapt d20 Modern into d20 Victorian. You'll just have to lose some of the modern schticks, like cars and computers, etc.