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<blockquote data-quote="Kahuna Burger" data-source="post: 1423488" data-attributes="member: 8439">I agree with the flexibility of the terms, and the foolishness of assuming the two (or three) factors go together. I voted no, because overall I don't think I'd like the combination of all factors, but I could enjoy some definitions of a low magic game. On that subject, my feeling on a low magic game would be that the power level of magic itself was lower, and magic using classes were thus compensated with more skills etc - the Bard would be a powerful magic user in a low magic campaign I would run, and ranger/paladin type casters would be more common even than that. Or posibly all spell casters would HAVE to be multiclassed with a mundane class, gaining a new wizard level when they qualified for it through research and investing skill points in spellcraft. Calling a campaign low magic but having a standard wizard as one of the characters doesn't make a lot of sense to me. The magic in a LM campaign could also be made slower, more expensive or require skill checks in order to reduce its influence on combat, while still allowing magic users to be seen as having special power. Just saying &quot;npc wizards are rare and magic items are almost unheard of&quot; doesn't make a campaign low magic to me, if you can still play a 6th level sorcerer in the 6th level party... YMMVKahuna burger</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kahuna Burger, post: 1423488, member: 8439"] I agree with the flexibility of the terms, and the foolishness of assuming the two (or three) factors go together. I voted no, because overall I don't think I'd like the combination of all factors, but I could enjoy some definitions of a low magic game. On that subject, my feeling on a low magic game would be that the power level of magic itself was lower, and magic using classes were thus compensated with more skills etc - the Bard would be a powerful magic user in a low magic campaign I would run, and ranger/paladin type casters would be more common even than that. Or posibly all spell casters would HAVE to be multiclassed with a mundane class, gaining a new wizard level when they qualified for it through research and investing skill points in spellcraft. Calling a campaign low magic but having a standard wizard as one of the characters doesn't make a lot of sense to me. The magic in a LM campaign could also be made slower, more expensive or require skill checks in order to reduce its influence on combat, while still allowing magic users to be seen as having special power. Just saying "npc wizards are rare and magic items are almost unheard of" doesn't make a campaign low magic to me, if you can still play a 6th level sorcerer in the 6th level party... YMMV Kahuna burger [/QUOTE]

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