JasonTDreamt about a fantasy RPG that combined the thief class and the magic-user class because real magic is so rare, dangerous, and powerful that most of what you do is actually theatrics and parlor tricks. Sages and scholars stuck around in their libraries; adventurers are the ones with a taste for power, but without as much privilege or good sense.
Honestly this feels like a fine way to run old, no-cantrips D&D so that low-level wizard players don’t get bored after they cast their one spell a day. Give them some flash powder, mundane legerdemain and ventriloquism skills, and a sleeve full of multicolored scarves and dove-puppets. That sounds fun to me.
Peter Kisner ≈@JasonT Funny enough, the thing i keep trying to find an interesting way to do is an only-cantrips D&D. Where magic can only be accomplished through:
* Cantrips (except direct damage ones)
* Magic items
* Elaborate rituals requiring a lot of materials, time, and other prerequisites.
Dave Clark