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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Empirate" data-source="post: 5450947" data-attributes="member: 78958">Thanks for your great suggestions. I do plan to make magic more widely available over the course of the campaign, although mostly in the form of magic items. The PCs right now are a Ranger, a Warlock, and a Druid, and all plan to stay single-classed (to grab those juicy E6 capstone feats later on). I don't foresee any balance problems - the Druid is limited to the Shapeshift variant, the other two are fine with that.I think I'll explain my setting a little, if you'll forgive the wall of text:The story revolves around another, alien species of Humans (who call themselves post-Humans), who are genetically and nanotechnically engineered to be generally better than 'normal' Humans (mechanically, Aasimar, but not so nice). These use high tech to ease their lives - it's basically standard D&D magic reflavored as nanotechnology. All of them have at least one level in the Wizard class, and all of them are well equipped with wands, scrolls, and wondrous items.These post-Humans have long ago colonized the game world through portals. They used a specially modified breed of Humans to live and work there as slaves - the game world has high radiation levels and can't support post-Humans for long, but the colonizer race has adapted. The post-Humans wanted to colonize that world to gather Moonscatter (actually pieces of a former moon-come-ring system, which periodically rain down onto the surface), an endlessly useful material that isn't found in any other world.From the early slave colonizers mining this Moonscatter, the PCs have sprung, born into a world that is intentionally kept low on technology (and magic, obviously). However, the slaves have over the centuries adapted their own form of native, intuitive nanotechnology - hence Druids, Warlocks, Favored Souls, and Sorcerers. This is very rare though, inherited through various recessive strains of DNA or whatever.The campaign's idea is that the players start in a stone age fantasy world low on what they perceive to be magic, and very low on technology. Over the course of the campaign, they'll discover that the campaign is not, actually, a fantasy campaign, but a SciFi game. Also, they'll discover that their whole people are slaves in a world that functions as the universe's largest labor camp.So the main reason for limiting options was the story. Balance came in as a secondary consideration, but I soon decided that I wanted no Wizards (at least, at first), and absolutely no Clerics or Archivists. I'll see whether I'll introduce Artificers later - in E6, it should be manageable.</blockquote>

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