Old school wizards only have the spells they can find in the setting. With all the spells released over the years it’s easy to customise what’s available. (Although player’s expectations need to be managed).
Agreed. One of my only attempts playing 5e I selected all utility spells, but that annoyed the party so the DM gave me some stupid pew pew cantrip as an extra and I didn't return the next week.
GURPS lets you spend HP if you run out of fatigue, but you take a -1 to cast per point of fatigue.
I wonder how well a fantasy world with fantastic critters and/or races but no magic would sell?
You could always go out and write/illustrate it yourself - I've seen plenty of published RPGs with far worse artwork than your doodles, plus the pen-and-ink style lends itself to cheaper B&W reproduction processes, either offset or POD.
I hate to say it, but having some sort of magic or weird makes designing worlds and adventures appreciably easier. I brought some S&V-isms, including the force analog ('The Way') into my 'verse for the S&V PbP game - and it does make designing critters and dungeon-type things a lot easier than a pure sci-fi approach. One can be quite a lot lazier working with a universe that has magical or fantastical elements than one without.
Buy a set of spell cards, and you can play D&D Legacy.
I like pew pew pew, because it means I can contribute to fights in a wizardy way, even if it is just a skin on a normal attack. It makes the Wizard and the Fighter stand out more. But I get your point, it makes wizarding less of a puzzle to solve.
It's a bad term. I see the logic for it, when Paladins were alignment-restricted, because the concept of someone dedicated to doing evil in the name of an evil god is a good one, but "drop the alignment restriction" has been a better fix IMO.
Do you have an example? I've seen games which discuss them in the "getting ready to play" section, but never one with actual rules behind them
It's a flaw because it limits you, but... if you wanted to play that sort of character, you're doing that sort of thing already, you're following that code. So you're limited to... doing what you want to do anyway... and getting a bonus for it? No, feels wrong to me.
I don't care for pew pew wizards. Wouldn't say i hate them, I just find them overly cartoony.
Unfortunately I am not independently wealthy either, but I would like to take some time out and do my magnum opus. It's not so easy to arrange and I'm yet to be convinced it wouldn't just wind up being a heartbreaker.
If you judge it by Numenera, it should sell pretty well.
Oh, OK. I get what you've mean now (I think we discussed this subject to death and to the death a month or so back...).
It's like the yellow pages, but you have to do all the work yourself.
Heheh I was making a bad joke to trigger more Grandpa Simpson memes.
