Alternatives to typical DnD magic?

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You might consider the Four By Five magic system (originally from FUDGE, but converted quite a few times). Here's a conversion for Swords and Wizardry which is a D&D retroclone and would probably require the least amount of hacking for your particular D&D version:

http://www.sycarion.com/four-by-five...-and-wizardry/


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Which looking at the posts above, looks like a highly simplified version of the Ars Magica system