[soltakss]

The trouble with using D20 magic in a BRPish environment is that you have to look at the theory behind the magic first and they aren't always compatible.

D20 is resolutely level based, BRP is resolutely not level based.

This means that D20 magicians get spells of differing power the further they get in their character class. Some spells are not available to lower level magicians and other become more powerful the higher level the magician.

BRP Magic, on the other hand, is based on personal power or personal magical rfesources. So, you have skills that control, how good you are magically and PPs that determine how much oomph you have to put behind the spell.

It is difficult to convert one to the other.

To use D20 magic effectively you have to have levels, which can be used in BRP games by having different degrees of membership of a particular magical organisation. So, you have Lay Member/Initiate/RuneLevel in RQ, there's no particular reason why a certain order doesn't have Member/Master/GrandMaster or whatever series of levels you want. So, levels aren't really an issue.

A big issue with D20 spells are that the higher level ones are incredibly powerful. They can seriously unbalance a game. But that is a problem for the GM.

Another issue is that D20 magicians can only store a certain number of spells and can only cast a certain number of spells per day, and both limitations are defined by level. That is against many of the BRP values. Is there a way around it? Almost certainly. Do I know the way? Nope.

But, I'd love to see a conversion of OGL D20 Spells to a D100-style system. Since BRP is definitely and absolutely not OGL then you can't convert them to BRP. You'd have to look at another D100 system that is OGL-based. I'm trying to think of one, it's on the tip of my tongue ....