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Bowman
2012-06-03, 09:14 AM
Could you suggest a good one?

I'm thinking of using the Psychic's Handbook (don't know if anyone's familiar with that), and need some kind of magic that would go well with it. Maybe low- or medium-powered, relative to standard D&D, but flashy is quite okay. If it's reasonably simple/streamlined - though preferably flexible too - that would be great.

3rd party supplement or homebrew material is fine.

Thanks! :smallsmile:

Empedocles
2012-06-03, 10:06 AM
The Sovereign Stone Campaign setting has the single best d20 magic system ever.

Bowman
2012-06-04, 02:32 AM
I'll look into that one. Thanks, Vilpich.

Any other offerings? No-one else around here has used low- or medium-magic alternatives for d20?

Ravens_cry
2012-06-04, 02:46 AM
There is the word magic (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/words-of-power) system in Pathfinder.
I haven't tried it personally, but I have heard good things from those who have.

Mystral
2012-06-04, 02:56 AM
You might want to check out the tome of magic. There are three new magic systems in there, pact magic, shadow magic and truespeak. None of those work anything like the usual wizard or sorcerer.

Be warned, though, the Truespeaker is broken. Not as in "Codzilla is broken", more like in "after I drove my car against this tree, it's broken". There are some fixes floating around the internet, though.