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What is "grim and gritty" and "low magic" anyway?
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<blockquote data-quote="Wulf Ratbane" data-source="post: 1424843" data-attributes="member: 94"><p>I don't think anyone has suggested that the only change necessary for a low-magic, grim and gritty setting is the removal of magic-using classes and magic items.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well, yes, it accurately reflects a great many myths.</p><p></p><p>There's nothing wrong with Samson slaying whole armies armed with nothing but a jawbone and his mullet, but at the end of the day he has to walk home, he has to eat, he has to sleep, and he's mortal-- he retains certain essential qualities of humanity with which we can identify, and the world in which he lives has a verisimilitude more analogous to the realities of our own world than the Forgotten Realms.</p><p></p><p>Superhuman characters abound in mythology, but they still have a resonance (not to get to Jungian here) that you just don't get from high magic D&D.</p><p></p><p>Again, whether or not that is a good thing is a matter of taste. If you are lucky enough to have a DM like K.M. or Piratecat, you can still be entertained and challenged by high magic D&D.</p><p></p><p>Wulf</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wulf Ratbane, post: 1424843, member: 94"] I don't think anyone has suggested that the only change necessary for a low-magic, grim and gritty setting is the removal of magic-using classes and magic items. Well, yes, it accurately reflects a great many myths. There's nothing wrong with Samson slaying whole armies armed with nothing but a jawbone and his mullet, but at the end of the day he has to walk home, he has to eat, he has to sleep, and he's mortal-- he retains certain essential qualities of humanity with which we can identify, and the world in which he lives has a verisimilitude more analogous to the realities of our own world than the Forgotten Realms. Superhuman characters abound in mythology, but they still have a resonance (not to get to Jungian here) that you just don't get from high magic D&D. Again, whether or not that is a good thing is a matter of taste. If you are lucky enough to have a DM like K.M. or Piratecat, you can still be entertained and challenged by high magic D&D. Wulf [/QUOTE]
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