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I would recommend Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings, its a simple story a short book and its part of a big series. You can buy the first 3 in one book 2nd hand from amazon for 4.50usd.

Its more of a young adult book so it should be easy for them to follow.

I would also recommend anything by Terry Pratchett, for great examples of satire anything in the diskworld collection, especially the earlier works, they are shorter.

the original Dragonlance story is also a good read for examples of DnD style stories.

The Innocent Mage (Kingmaker, Kingbreaker) is a great story by an aussie :)

anyway hope this helps

I like this idea, Perhaps instead of allowing the caster to simply re-roll the check and keep adding the result, instead have something like Each round that the caster spends casting the lowers the dc by 5 or 10.

The skill system I had in mind was that a 5th level spell had a dc of 60, and a 9th level wizard will have a spellcasting modifier of about +25 ( level + spellcraft ranks + ability mod) , this means the spellcaster will most likely fail the roll.

so the 9th level caster can spend 3 rounds casting the 5th level spell the bring the dc down to 30.

you could also introduce a spell failure chance where the roll is 10 below the dc of the spell being cast, something unexpected happens.

I have always liked the idea of a spell caster magic being tied to there own health in some way, so a spell caster can keep casting spells as long as they have the will and the strength to do so, rather than oh well I have no more magic left for the day.

I would love a copy of these maps when you get time.

ljbomford@gmail.com

thanks mate :)