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<blockquote data-quote="GoodKingJayIII" data-source="post: 1694370" data-attributes="member: 13804">A few suggestions have been made.&nbsp; Here are the sites I mentioned in my first post.<a href="http://www.giantitp.com" target="_blank">Giant in the Playground</a> - go to the Forms section on the sidebar then scroll down to the world-building articles.&nbsp; It's a general overview on how to build a world, but it shows how 3.5's magic and equipment did not fit his worldview.I'd also recommend reading Josh Dyal's campaign website.&nbsp; It offers a lot of material you could use in a rare magic setting.I'm not entirely sure what kind of &quot;crunch&quot; you're looking for that hasn't already been offered.&nbsp; Some posters mentioned handing out powers rather than magic items, equal in value to their magical counterparts.&nbsp; Others suggested increasing CR for monsters with powerful spell-like abilities, damage reduction, and so on.&nbsp; You could also lower a party's ECL when calculating XP, which would amount to the same thing, really.&nbsp; Maybe you could emphasis the rarity of spellcasters by disallowing them as a PC classes.&nbsp; Change Craft Magic Arms and Armor to Mastercraft Arms and Armor, use normal item pricing methods, and set crafting DCs relative to how easy or difficult you want item crafting to be.Or maybe make more direct changes to the PCs.&nbsp; Give an ability increase every two levels instead of four, create some heroic paths a la Midnight to grant extraordinary powers to the characters.&nbsp; Or maybe give the characters each one or two magic items that are priceless.There are a lot of things you could do.&nbsp; I think it just depends on exactly what you want when it comes to &quot;low magic.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GoodKingJayIII, post: 1694370, member: 13804"] A few suggestions have been made. Here are the sites I mentioned in my first post. [URL=http://www.giantitp.com]Giant in the Playground[/URL] - go to the Forms section on the sidebar then scroll down to the world-building articles. It's a general overview on how to build a world, but it shows how 3.5's magic and equipment did not fit his worldview. I'd also recommend reading Josh Dyal's campaign website. It offers a lot of material you could use in a rare magic setting. I'm not entirely sure what kind of "crunch" you're looking for that hasn't already been offered. Some posters mentioned handing out powers rather than magic items, equal in value to their magical counterparts. Others suggested increasing CR for monsters with powerful spell-like abilities, damage reduction, and so on. You could also lower a party's ECL when calculating XP, which would amount to the same thing, really. Maybe you could emphasis the rarity of spellcasters by disallowing them as a PC classes. Change Craft Magic Arms and Armor to Mastercraft Arms and Armor, use normal item pricing methods, and set crafting DCs relative to how easy or difficult you want item crafting to be. Or maybe make more direct changes to the PCs. Give an ability increase every two levels instead of four, create some heroic paths a la Midnight to grant extraordinary powers to the characters. Or maybe give the characters each one or two magic items that are priceless. There are a lot of things you could do. I think it just depends on exactly what you want when it comes to "low magic." [/QUOTE]

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