Re: Magic depending on the country
I played in a D&D campaign where, based on the language the spell was inscribed in when it was learned, different effects occurred. There was a current language where things happened as they did from the book, and then four other languages that effected the spells learned from that language. One set would increase the effectiveness of the spell, while another would make the spell harder to resist/dispell. You could only roll to learn the spell once, so if you couldn't learn it in one language, you couldn't learn it at all, but it did make searching for a spell a bit more interesting.