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<blockquote data-quote="Helldritch" data-source="post: 8081471" data-attributes="member: 6855114">As Snarf said, low magic can mean a lot of things and it also depends on what you compare it too. GH is considered to be low magic mainly because high level casters are so rare and far between that to talk to one can be an adventure in itself. It is not in the rarity of magical items, the vast majority of them come from an other age, but from the fact that creating them is almost a lost art and the costs was always great. Permanency had a high cost in earlier editions. The permanent loss a point of constitution was an efficient deterent to many. It could be circumvented, but all ways to circumvent that loss were evil (almost all of them). Magic is as powerful in GH as it is in the FR or in Eberron. It is just a lot rarer and arcane secrets rest in the hands of a few high powered casters. The amount of low level casters is proportionally equal to FR, but the percentage trying to go further is way lower. Either because they die or because they retire.Weilding 3rd and 4th level spells is not a small feat in itself. You have power that the vast majority will never attain. Why risk your life to weild more? Not everyone have the will to push onward. How many campaigns go higher than 9th level in 5th edition already? Not that much. The same should hold true for our NPCs.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Helldritch, post: 8081471, member: 6855114"] As Snarf said, low magic can mean a lot of things and it also depends on what you compare it too. GH is considered to be low magic mainly because high level casters are so rare and far between that to talk to one can be an adventure in itself. It is not in the rarity of magical items, the vast majority of them come from an other age, but from the fact that creating them is almost a lost art and the costs was always great. Permanency had a high cost in earlier editions. The permanent loss a point of constitution was an efficient deterent to many. It could be circumvented, but all ways to circumvent that loss were evil (almost all of them). Magic is as powerful in GH as it is in the FR or in Eberron. It is just a lot rarer and arcane secrets rest in the hands of a few high powered casters. The amount of low level casters is proportionally equal to FR, but the percentage trying to go further is way lower. Either because they die or because they retire. Weilding 3rd and 4th level spells is not a small feat in itself. You have power that the vast majority will never attain. Why risk your life to weild more? Not everyone have the will to push onward. How many campaigns go higher than 9th level in 5th edition already? Not that much. The same should hold true for our NPCs. [/QUOTE]

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