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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 4493472" data-attributes="member: 3887">What I'm saying is that limiting the amount of fantastic elements in a campaign doesn't make good DM'ing any easier. Conversely, the inclusion of a lot of wahoo doesn't make good DM'ing any harder.   Okay... but now how do feel when your PC's encounter a dragon? Is it still a momentous occasion? Are your memories all campaign-specific? Don't all the other times you've read about something (or encountered it in an RPG) don't into your reaction vis a vis how 'wondrous' it is?   In my games a dragon is just another kind of person. Another NPC. I'm not going to stop using NPC's because my players have seen them a million times before. I'm going to attempt to create interesting NPC's.  On the contrary, my position in based on myself and my experiences as a good DM. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I find the opposite is true as well, which all I'm really trying to say.  Magic is looked at that way in D&D because that's what it is. A tool that increases the player's chances of success. When it's made into more than that it's because of the DM's creativity and descriptive abilities. Not even extreme rarity can make a +1 longsword evoke a sense of awe.</blockquote>