Your favorite Magic system?

[Infernal Teddy]

What's your favorite d20 Magic system so far?

 

[DMH]

Tie between 2 in Green Ronin's Advanced Player's Manual:

The spellmaster collects ambient magic and can cast more powerful magic than his slots indicate with a cost.

The eldrich weaver uses threads- mini-spell lists that have linked spells. It removes the hogepoge manner in which d20 magic is learned.

 

[EricNoah]

Arcana Unearthed is pretty cool -- each spell has three versions (regular, heightened, and diminished). You can use the regular spell slot to cast the regular version, or a lower level slot to cast the diminished version, or a higher level slot to cast the heightened version.

 

[GlassJaw]

Shadowrun.

 

[Psion]

The core d20 magic system.

Not lots of whistles and bells, but simple to use and easily extensible. It has a tactical resource management element, but lacks the annoying accounting and the pretense of lots of flashy substance that, in play, end up being more of a burden than interesting, as is often the case in many alledgedly superior magic systems.

 

[A'koss]

Path Magic and my own variants thereof...

 

[IronWolf]

I'd go with the core d20 system too. I know lots of people have things they might like to see done differently, so maybe I am just easily pleased, but it works for me.

 

[Infernal Teddy]

The two I prefer at the moment are the Arcana Unearthed system - templates, Hightend/diminished and so forth - and Encyclopedia Arcane: Chaos Magic - similar to Mage: The Ascencion, my all-time fave when it comes to Magic

 

[Rasyr]

Shadowrun.

HARP Each spell learned like a skill, scale spells up in power from the base form at the time of casting IF you know the spell well enough...

 

[Ibram]

Conan d20, the spells are just so flavorfull... even if the system is kinda a pain.

I just dont like the fire and forget spell slot nature of the core system, it feels lacking, even if I havent found a good alternative yet.