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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bloodtide" data-source="post: 8080557" data-attributes="member: 6684958">Low magic is hard to describe as everyone has such wildly diffrent views.  And even more crazy is a lot of people get stuck in the middle and can't pr won't see beyond that.  Lord of the Rings is a good example of a Low Magic Setting: just about no spellcasters, only a handful of weak magic items and just about no magical evneroment.  And yet there are people who will disagree and say LotR is a crazy high magic setting.  But there is on way it can be when you consider, say a world of five trillion people that can use Wish at will as a supernatural ability.  Wish world would be a high magic world, there is no doubt......and LotR is not even close to that.For levels of magic You need to take into account:A.How much magic is in the whole worldB.How much magic is available day to dayC.And over all what can magic do.Grayhawk has always been a Low Magic setting, after all it is inspired by '70's Sword and Sorcery.  It's a dirty, gritty ''close to reality" type setting.  Just consider that Oreth is basicaly like say 1300 Earth.....and what little magic there is has zero effect on the world.  Sure maybe there is a slightly magical "explosion", but it's breif and does not change the world.  Oreath has just about zero spellcasters that do anything piratical like produce food or light up the dark.  Nearly all Grayhawk magic is stuck in the nitch of "dungeon adventure" use.  And sure, Grayhawk is just as popular as it has even been as some people like low magic gritty settings.</blockquote>

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