For my next campaign (which will be quite some time as my current one is far from over) I was thinking of doing something a bit different.
One thought, what if all the people in the world were sorcerers? As in anyone with the inerrant willpower (charisma) could do magic?
The mechanical implementation would be fairly simple. Everyone would be a gestalt x/sorcerer (likely with eschew materials thrown in to avoid inexpensive materials).
The implications on the world would be really interesting and quite far ranging though. For example, great leaders (those with high Charisma) would also be better sorcerers so leaders of communities, towns, cities could wield some serious power in their own right (also a high level NPC class would have some serious meaning as they would also be the equivalent level in sorcerer). Also guilds would develop based on sorcerer ability (as spell selection is quite limited specialties would be cropping up left and right).
There would also be many societal developments as low level magic is quite common (almost anyone can pull off a cantrip or 1st level spell) but high level magic is still extremely rare (most people don't have the charisma or the level required to pull of the big time spells).
Some classes would have to be restricted (Bard could pull off some serious abuse here) and others might just be shunned - wizards might be extremely shunned for their "unnatural" approach to magic for example.
Anyway just started thinking about this concept (have given it about 5 minutes so far), thought it was interesting and looking for other thoughts, ideas etc. As this is currently just general world building I figured this was the most appropriate forum.
One thought, what if all the people in the world were sorcerers? As in anyone with the inerrant willpower (charisma) could do magic?
The mechanical implementation would be fairly simple. Everyone would be a gestalt x/sorcerer (likely with eschew materials thrown in to avoid inexpensive materials).
The implications on the world would be really interesting and quite far ranging though. For example, great leaders (those with high Charisma) would also be better sorcerers so leaders of communities, towns, cities could wield some serious power in their own right (also a high level NPC class would have some serious meaning as they would also be the equivalent level in sorcerer). Also guilds would develop based on sorcerer ability (as spell selection is quite limited specialties would be cropping up left and right).
There would also be many societal developments as low level magic is quite common (almost anyone can pull off a cantrip or 1st level spell) but high level magic is still extremely rare (most people don't have the charisma or the level required to pull of the big time spells).
Some classes would have to be restricted (Bard could pull off some serious abuse here) and others might just be shunned - wizards might be extremely shunned for their "unnatural" approach to magic for example.
Anyway just started thinking about this concept (have given it about 5 minutes so far), thought it was interesting and looking for other thoughts, ideas etc. As this is currently just general world building I figured this was the most appropriate forum.