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I like this a idea a lot. It doesn't need the d20 modern wealth mechanics, it needs a bunch of ideas of what you can spend the points on and some work on costs. Oh, and some explanation of what you can do with excess magic items, because with any D&D-related system these will exist unless you on...

Hit roll, effect roll and some kind of defence roll (soak or whatever) works fairly well IME. A friends heavily house-ruled nWoD campaign uses this, so did an Alternity game I played. Shadowrun's counting successes (& WoD equivalents) let you combine hit and effect roll & still seem to work,...

Lago, there have been rules for building castles (with costs) at least as far back as the 1st ed DMG. See also: D&D expert & companion rules sets, Birthright, http://www.wizards.com/dnd/files/CASTLE.ZIP etc etc etc. There are people who are interested in doing this. I'm not saying the magic ...

I'm sure I saw something about how rituals might be used in the setup to combat but had been intentionally excluded from direct combat use. Also, I think they all have 10+ minute casting times, and a combat is defined as 5 minutes or less. So, while I don't have access to internal documents I think ...

Nominally noncombat magic should be slow and ineffective enough to never have any effect on combat?

Kaelik, I think you've got the reasonable order of events here mixed up. Try this: 1. Wizard's PC says "OK, I want to fireball all those orcs fighting Lord Wobert" 2. DM says "You can get half of them safely, or all of them with a DC 25+spell level, that's 28 - you'll get Lord Wobert ...

Hi. Yes, I'm new here - I just wanted to mention that I've played in a couple of 3.0 games where we used something like this. The way it worked is that when one of the wizards wanted to place an area spell in some fancy way the DM would give them a few options. If it was fireballing targets around a...