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I don't care about druids. Everquest killed my whole interest in them and filled me with loathing for the whole class. Besides, I'd hate to deal with a druid as a DM - I prefer city adventures to wilderness.

I doubt anyone else had trouble understanding what I meant with my question, since it was aimed at a comment from DragonBlade. (Not that I think you really misunderstood it, I know your style of posting too well for that.)

Did you forget that in 3.5 haste targets several people? Anyway, aren't there creatures you could summon to battle clay golems at that level? or use rock to mud/mud to rock to trap them? (Not sure about those spells working). Target the ceiling with disintegrate and bury them under rubble? Cast...

Ding indeed. I have to correct myself then - I have problems with high-magic setting where magic is mundane and everywhere. (And I have problems with some spells/powers in D&D.)

Yup, for every major combat encounter. Mind you, I usually have one major combat encounter per session at the most, and usually use classed NCPs not monsters, which makes the balancing much easier. The elements you have missed are the specific tastes and motivations of my PCs and players. Our...

Umm, I wanted an answer from DragonBlade. I never stated that I preferred high-level high-magic campaigns and found low-level low-magic campaigns boring. And with D&D (D&DG and ELH) you can play gods as well, so I fail to see the point in your remark. As far as my answer to this question goes...

Reminds me of an adventure back in 2E, where our PCs used to teleport out of the dungeon/wilderness each evening back to their house in Waterdeep for the night, perhaps with dinner in that quaint inn in Calimport. Fun for a short while, but magic really lost its wonder. The CRPG Baldur's Gate...

That last paragraph was sarcasm. Remind me to tag it next time. Edit: I just wanted to illustrate that if one considers low-level low-magic boring and prefers high-level high-magic campaigns where paladins battle fiends with +6 holy vorpal avengers, then one does wonder why not play gods then...

I never said no magic, I said low magic, and especially low magic items. In this example the party generally gets a lot of one-use magic to kill orcus - they don't get a wagon load of magic items and weapons to keep. The next adventure will not have them being able to kill greater demons with...

This is really my beef (apart from the problem with the suspension of disbelief I get in magic shop-campaigns still modelled after medieval europe), but why should I change systems when d20 offers me the same? I don't have a problem playing D&D my way, which consists in reducing the amount of...

No problem. My low-magic PCs will need an artefact to kill him (or may have to bathe their weapons in the pool of blood orcus left when he battled a God of Good in ancient times to be able to wound him), and have to quest for that. After that they will have to find the legendary portal to the...

Because it is a whole lot of work for the DM (that means me in my case) just to create and adventures each week for a party with low-magic ressources. If I had to adjust the adventures to take godly powers into account the work needed would exceed my free time by far. I am not willing to spend...

Another point to consider is that playstyles differ. One low magic struggle may be pitting the PCs against kobolds, orcs etc., while another may pit the PCs against a plotting and stealing secretary of a merchant, who is in league with the thieves guild, who in turn is compromised by spys from...

After reading through that thread my head hurts. I tailor any monster/boss fight to my specific party's capabilities. I check DR, AC, hitpoints, resistances, special abilities, circumstances etc. for both party and opponent when creating and modifying an opponent. I don't need a detailed CR...

I rate the D&D movie as the worst film I have seen (and remember). Nothing redeemable in it.

Wouldn't it be much cooler and provide much more options if the players could play gods instead of low-level PCs like a measly Wizard-40? What is the point in having all those cool stats in the Deities&Demigods if the players never can play them? Naw, lets forget gods, lets play overgods! Much...

I guess Extend Spell will hold its own. Two of my PCs took that feat just for mage armor, f.e.

That is another point. I wonder sometimes how the societies of most campaign worlds are supposed to function with the amount of power spellcasters have, especially the economy.

I made the opposite experience. When the PCs have less magical means at their disposal magic becomes stranger, and more impressive. As others have said, low-magic does not mean no-magic. I have used doppelgangers a lot in some plots, and thanks to the less-than-normal-amount of magic items and...

First, cars and airplanes are the wrong example. Try airplanes and ships for travelling aroud the globe. How many people do you know that travel by ship from New York to France, Mexico, South Africa, Japan, China, India? If you want to go to another country, airplanes will be the means of travel...