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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 7931132" data-attributes="member: 6779196">I don’t think any edition of D&D does a great job of emulating the sources you mentioned, honestly. Way too much vulgar magic (to borrow a term from Mage the Ascension). But yeah, 4e definitely leaned more fantastical in what characters could accomplish without magic, which is great for some campaigns but does make those more down to earth classic fantasy stories even more difficult to emulate.I’ve heard it said that pre-4e D&D was about ordinary people becoming heroes, while 4e is about heroes becoming gods. I think the statement is a tad hyperbolic, but it does nicely summarize one of the major tone differences between 3e and 4e. I think 5e found a pretty decent balance, although I would like to see a slightly more mundane low-end and a slightly more fantastical high-end.</blockquote>