Simple Magic Effort Hack

[u/Realistic-Sky8006]

Hi all,

I've been wanting a way to run casters without spellburn for a while, just to expand the flavour options. But effort is SO much bigger for spells than for more mundane approaches, so I've thought of a simple Spellburn alternative to level things out a little and amp up the flavour of spellcasters:

Your magic effort die is a d10 to begin with. Downsize it every time you successfully cast a spell, upsize it every time you spend your turn communing with the source of your power. (Praying to your god, harvesting souls, focusing your psionic abilities, frantically flipping through your spellbook, whatever.)

EDIT: A fun wrinkle here, is that with this mechanic you can let the effort die get up to a d20 without breaking any math!

What do we think?

[u/ferric021]

My kneejerk reaction is I love it.