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Help finding a Low Magic Rule Set….

Started by Thanos, May 21, 2014, 08:39:39 PM

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Yes, Midnight was the lowest-magic 3.x setting/rules I can think of.
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The obscure RPG Carmine is no magic, except for some alchemy, which I think is more super-chemistry-like than magical. I think it's basically D20/OGL mechanically.

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Quote from: RPGPundit;784154Yes, Midnight was the lowest-magic 3.x setting/rules I can think of.

Iron Heroes without the Arcanist (which is explicitly called out as being there mostly so you can have Evil Sorcerors as antagonists)?
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I always though d20 Past would make a fairy nice low-level magic game for fantasy.

There's still Wizards and Clerics, but they're now 10-level Prestige Classes (meaning you have to be 6th-8th level before you cast your first 1st-level spell!). It caps magic at 5th-level, so bringing back the dead is a pretty epic achievement (earliest at 15th-level, on a 20-level capped system).

EDIT: I once tried to see what it would take to make 3.X D&D "magic lite", and found the effort incredibly frustrating. More classes have spellcasting (to one degree or another) than not, and trying to see how it would affect the "magic item economy" was particularly irritating (trying to collect which monsters in MM & MM2 have high-level spellcasting ability).

It was far easier to make a new game, using the d20 mechanics, than try to re-skin D&D into something it ain't.
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Quote from: daniel_ream;784472Iron Heroes without the Arcanist (which is explicitly called out as being there mostly so you can have Evil Sorcerors as antagonists)?

Hmm, yeah, good point.
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