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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dragonblade" data-source="post: 2250958" data-attributes="member: 2804">Exactly right! <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=":)" />There are two schools of thought on G&G. One school posits that G&G requires low levels, limited magic and high potential lethality. The other school posits that G&G merely requires a certain dark atmosphere and high potential lethality.I am of the latter school. I played in a D&D game run by my friend SHARK that I would consider EXTREMELY G&G, yet, in his campaign I played a 40th level monk/sorcerer and had all the magic gear appropriate to my character level.Yet, his game had an extremely dark atmosphere and we never fought anything with a CR of less than 15. And those were his mooks!! Every single fight, I came within a few hit points of death. I had to cast Wish pretty much every other round in order to heal myself just to stay alive.In hindsight, his game was grittier and more lethal than any low level game I ever played in. And I loved his game for it. Why? Because it had all the G&G atmosphere but I had the cool options of a high level character. It was the perfect blend of G&G verisimilitude, combined with the escapist power of super-heroic fantasy.Playing in a limited magic, low-level game just sucked in comparison. Not only are you just as likely to die, but without high level magic and items, there is less that you can actually do about it.</blockquote>

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