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Neat! That makes a lot of sense. Better ways to get more players in more interesting trouble=more fun.

Yeah, not hard and fast. It's just my thinking that the 34 makes the creation of very strong wands disproportionately easy relative to other magic items. Still, nobody in my campaign is casting 4th level spells anytime soon, so it's purely academic.

Just a quibble, but shouldn't the top level be 38+(as a fourth level spell)?

+1 on Tomoe Gozen & We Are All Legends . They are rock solid stuff. If you can't find glorious grotesque images to rip off while reading them, you're not trying. I'd add, just barely missing the 1980 cutoff (although the stories that comprise both started appearing before 1980) Michael Shea's Ni...

I'd want to start by referencing Zak S. on this specific issue: http://dndwithpornstars.blogspot.com/2009/10/where-action-is-part-2-grognardia-jack.html . That post does (albeit with some grumpy throat-clearing about "story gaming") an excellent job pointing out that it's possibly a little...