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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brother MacLaren" data-source="post: 1421563" data-attributes="member: 15999">Sure.  Particularly when "low-magic" means "fewer NPC spellcasters in the world than the DMG assumes." Commonplace magic really throws a wrench into any kind of reasoning.  No matter what you think is going on, there's always the "or maybe it's magic" explanation.  And then there's the fact that I like magic to be rare, special, feared, and feel like magic.  Not like technology. Finally, I like the medieval motif.  I know, it's not *really* medieval, but I still want the world to have castles and I still want the heavy cavalry to be a greatly feared fighting force.  There are ways you can do this and keep the magic, but it requires some more tweaking (maybe there are more special materials that protect against magic and are used in castle-building or full-plate-forging).I was in a game once where our 8th-level PCs, using an airship, slaughtered an enemy army.  We were just too far out of their reach.  I absolutely hated that session, and afterwards wished that I had sabotaged the airship and killed my own party.  It was such an outright slaughter of the magic-users versus the mundane that it was really offensive.  It says "In this world, you are either magical or you are helpless."  And that wasn't the DM's intent, but that's how it came out.</blockquote>