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I think it's a fine idea, but here is a warning. When I GM'd I always ended up wishing my players had taken evocation over some of the other spells they end up taking. Damage is the easiest of the magic effects to manage as a GM. By taking it away from the characters you force them to take...

I guess by relative I mean at first level it takes a couple rounds on average for a character to take out an orc, and the PC has a very good chance of dying. At 10th level the same fighter is now fighting giants, but the combat still takes a few rounds and the player still has a very good...

True, but the most munchkin-y thing to do isn't always the most advantageous thing to do. Sometimes strength makes you an enemy and you get taken out. From an evolutionary standpoint, if you compete for resources with a dominate species, your likely to get rubbed out by that species. While...

Besides BAB, feats and skills what abilities are you refering to? If the relative success rates stay the same for melee combat and skill challenges, what has changed by advancing levels?

That's cool. I guess in my mind there are so many inconsistancies in fantasy that spending time or effort to try to get rid of all of them is a exorcise in futility. When I think of "hobgoblin" like situations, where there is an obvious munchkin tactic, I guess I try to look at how a society...

I guess if you take out high level magic, I view that there isn't any real play difference between higher levels and lower levels. Yes you get more hitpoints and more skill points, but the actuall play difference it minor. Monsters have more hitpoints, but the fighters do more damage. So...

That's just evil, really, I mean it. Evil. In a good way, but still just evil.

And yet through all my "ignorance" I've never had to resort to name calling to get my point across.

This seems like a pretty unambigous asault on being creative with magic. Then elsewhere in another thread you say this. Sounds like the players were being a bit too creative. Sounds like they were coming up with things that broke your plots and stories. Then you call me a troll for pointing...

You put this forward a lot in your posts. The idea that low magic creates more options. I guess I don't see that as valid. To me, most of the 'more options" people talk about when they say this are available to the players in both high and low magic. If the GM can only force different...

10 - 15 hours on maps, geography, politics etc. 10 - 15 hours on background story and such Lots of time spent day dreaming about the plot 2 -3 hours with the players flushing out their characters and how that changes the world. 3 or 10 hours putting together the first adventure.

A legend in your own mind ;)

No, that would be the GM running the game. If one player is not creative, that' s a player problem. If your whole group isn't creative, that's a GM problem.

To be honest your asking the wrong people. It's likely that none of us will play in your game and none of us will ever have to suffer through the consequences of the decisions you make. So, I would feel wrong cheering on your quest for restrictions, or for that matter condeming it. What I...

You know if one student fails you blame that student, if the whole class fails you blame the teacher.

I would call this lower level, not lower magic. It's fine to have a campaign that stops at 10th level, but that doesn't make it low magic. It sounds like you play standard D&D and just prefer to restart the campaign when it gets to a certain level. Cool.

There are several examples of similar situations both in life and in literature. In the real world we seek to know who is using and can create explosives. You need permits to purchase key elements. Another example is pilots licences. We don't want anarchy in the sky, so we seek to regulate...

Just popping in from my gaming in north seattle thread as requested by ThoughtBubble. If your in Redmond, we should try to get a game together at Wizkids out by Belabotege (sp?) Cinema. They have several tables and have open game times. This might be a good place to start a game and see if...

Thank you all, especially andargor. I'm downloading the file now.

I certainly wouldn't say that we in the first world live in the worst conditions in the world, I don't think it changes the overall point. None of the institutions or powers I mentioned are available to the average citizen of the third world either.