The Athasian Wizard Revisted

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I prettied up my house rules for the Wizard class a little bit and posted them here: Athasian Wizard and Arcane Magic - Google Docs

It includes changes to Arcane Magic including spell points, feat based magic (inspired by Midnight RPG), revamped magic item creation, the preserver/defiler choice, etc.

The overall idea was to make arcane magic (and specifically defiling magic) more “powerful” than psionics. Low level magic doesn’t harm the environment but that starts to kick in at level 3 with 2nd level spells but today’s wizards don’t get as easy access to spells. Preservers intentionally made themselves weaker so they would not harm the environment. Defilers throw caution to the wind and cast spells without concern for the damage they cause as you’d expect.

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Poor wizard only a d4 hit die…but also ya I have a wizard in my campaign who is a full necromancer defiler. 6th lvl using 5.24 Edition. He is an issue!!! But I enjoy issues, they give me something fun to shoot at.

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Any homebrew rules for defiling in 5e?

Looking for suggestions for my adapted campaign.

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There’s several sets of 5e rules in the DA Public Share https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LEDjVhT49b1KRfjvbgu_pla1w5ZnncOU, they all ought to have defiling rules.

There’s also June’s (@Xelu ) Athascon 5e rules, which Athas.org is currently as our 5e ruleset, which definitely has defiling rules. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Bli2DII7UGvJXwa8NiTC9iAV4rIdS2sr/view?usp=drive_link