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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5807440" data-attributes="member: 177">Broadly speaking, D&D magic has never been particularly "dark".  It is only mysterious when the GM uses rules for it that the players have not read.    Yes, well, those terms are esthetic in nature - so your "elegance" and "vague simplicity" probably won't be mine.  I think the "safety net" is a myth.  But those fantasy pillars are all (okay, I've not read Erikson, but I'd be surprised if he was the only outlier) pretty close to each other - not a big stretch, here.  They are all what I'd consider "low magic" worlds, insofar as the protagonists rarely have much magic to speak of.  You're cutting out a whole lot of the potential play space, there.</blockquote>