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<blockquote data-quote="Darrin Drader" data-source="post: 3979903" data-attributes="member: 7394">I always thought that gritty games were supposed to have a lower level of magic and fewer &quot;wahoo&quot; elements. Most of the opponents the PCs run up against are humans (or demi-humans, if you wish), so every time they get into a fight, there is a human toll that they must then deal with. A gritty game is where there is no good guy or bad guy, but shades of gray. It isn't a question of whether your side is right, but which side is less wrong. In such a game paladins may fight paladins and people do not come together for the common good.In a gritty game, vice is everywhere.You can't get through a game session without seeing alcoholism, gambling, drug use, and prostitution. The characters may even be required to take a vice. Paying off their out of control gambling debts might be the reason why they risk their lives adventuring in the first place.More than anything else, a gritty game is one where characters are not super heroes. Take the ability progression of any given class, space it out so they only average one new ability every other level, and then make it so that their abilities max out at level 20 - meaning that once they hit this level, they have reached the peak of human achievement and cannot progress any further. Yes, that does mean that there is no such thing as 9th level spells, except as ancient legend or part of very powerful artifacts.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Darrin Drader, post: 3979903, member: 7394"] I always thought that gritty games were supposed to have a lower level of magic and fewer "wahoo" elements. Most of the opponents the PCs run up against are humans (or demi-humans, if you wish), so every time they get into a fight, there is a human toll that they must then deal with. A gritty game is where there is no good guy or bad guy, but shades of gray. It isn't a question of whether your side is right, but which side is less wrong. In such a game paladins may fight paladins and people do not come together for the common good. In a gritty game, vice is everywhere.You can't get through a game session without seeing alcoholism, gambling, drug use, and prostitution. The characters may even be required to take a vice. Paying off their out of control gambling debts might be the reason why they risk their lives adventuring in the first place. More than anything else, a gritty game is one where characters are not super heroes. Take the ability progression of any given class, space it out so they only average one new ability every other level, and then make it so that their abilities max out at level 20 - meaning that once they hit this level, they have reached the peak of human achievement and cannot progress any further. Yes, that does mean that there is no such thing as 9th level spells, except as ancient legend or part of very powerful artifacts. [/QUOTE]

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