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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cactot" data-source="post: 2657731" data-attributes="member: 13700">I am jumping into this conversation a little late, but here is the way i judge "high-powered" versus "low-powered":  I imagine the party, with their abilities, magic items, etc.  in any given fantasy book, and think how they would dominate or be dominated.  A decently built 12th-15th level party could have decimated the entire invading army from Return of the King, hell a semi-optimized wizard, druid, or cleric at around the same level could pretty much do it alone. (Hell a cleric with holy word and a metamagic widen rod could clear 80' radius (~20,000 sq/ft) swathes of baddies with no survivors likely, and no way any baddies would live if he used some prayer beads)  Same in the Song of Ice and Fire series, the Wheel of Time series, or pretty much any other major work of fantasy literature you could care to think of, with the possible exception of the Riftwar saga and those novels based on the DnD universe, damn near everything else would be blown out of the water by an average party of adventurers from DnD.That being said, I would not consider Iron Heroes "low powered" though they do posses lower capacity for mass slaughter than their magic equipped counterparts.  If i were looking to do a lower power game, in a gritty atmosphere, i would be looking at the black company campaign setting (which is an excellent setting btw, i highly recommend it.)</blockquote>