[quote=Rhymer]
Update: This is getting to feel like world of war craft. I had initially hoped this would be a small-scale city-state sort of NRP, but with these large 'empires' this thing has sort of gone of on a whole different level. I do appreciate the enthusiasm tho :) . What I propose is moving this to Casual-RP section and dropping the nation stats. You would play as one or as many of your characters as you wish in a unique fantasy world. We would have to better define the state of magic use so no OP characters would come along. OR we can continue on with this NRP. Thoughts?
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I'm up for either, so long as I keep my characters. Hell, they don't even need to be leaders of countries. I'll go with whatever anyone else wants.

As for magic, I like the idea of magical ARTIFACTS, but I don't quite know how to manage magical PEOPLE. But I think more people want to construct a good story than "win", so we shouldn't worry about OP characters.
Perhaps we could have some kind of magical restraints in place that harm characters that use magic to excess? I once read a book - I can't remember it's name - that had characters cast spells at the cost of their own life force. Mages were constantly quaffing healing potions and resting. Or maybe just limits on when spells can be used i.e. Nightmare from Soul Calibur should just be able to eat the souls of his victims, but that would be OP, so instead he has to fight them until they are either incapacitated or he can use his Finisher on them.