>>95916087
I should go into more detail here. You know how Labyrinth Lord changes the cleric spell progression to give clerics spells from level 1?

My idea is a way to down-power magic-users. Basically, shift their spell progression down one level, so that they get 1 level 1 spell at level 2, like clerics used to, but compensate them a bit by letting them have read magic, detect magic, and some sort of magical attack that never runs out of uses and deals 1d3 damage, as spell-like abilities at level 1. Read and detect magic probably should be at will, and the attack maybe 3 times per day or perhaps at will, or something like that.

That still lets the class feel like it handles its problems with magic from level 1, but it ramps down their power considerably in later levels.