Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Enchanted Trinkets Complete--a hardcover book containing over 500 magic items for your D&D games!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 711883" data-attributes="member: 2205">For me, even way back in Junior high when I first started playing D&D and was frustrated by this, the fun factor comes in when I feel like I'm recreating something that hearkens back to the fantasy fiction that I enjoy reading.  Because D&D doesn't resemble that in the least, my fun factor is also lessened.  Of course, I read a lot of fantasy fiction in a lot of different styles (at least I have; I'm generally too busy to read nearly as much as I do now) but one thing I don't see is one that is internally inconsistent like D&D.  The first two books of the Dark Sword trilogy are a great example of a high magic world, but the world was carefully and meticulously crafted to reflect that high magic.  D&D is a high magic world that somehow still has low magic assumptions.  For a lot of folks, that's fine.  For folks who like D&D to reflect the pulpy action short stories of Fritz Leiber or Robert E. Howard, that's probably at least acceptable, since those don't deal alot with the internal consistency of the world -- magic and wizards, etc. were plot hooks, not something that was designed to be consistent.  For the larger, epic fantasy fiction, I prefer to go the "Tolkien route" -- meticulous attention to detail and consistency is what makes the world really interesting and fun.So, that's always been and remains today my biggest complaint with D&D.  Right now, I'm interested in running a fantasy game that uses the d20 Modern rulebase, with some skills and feats excised to get a "medieval" feel to it, and then add some darker Cthulhu-ish magic to the mix.  With that ruleset, I can get the campaign setting I really would like to run.  With the D&D ruleset, I can't.  If I have to use the D&D ruleset, though, I'll be sure and add Manual of the Planes and Savage Species to the required reading list and come up with an outrageously exotic and outlandish high magic game.  To me, that's what the D&D ruleset implies, and games like FR or Greyhawk don't ring true because they don't end up that way.</blockquote>

Verification