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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 8774138" data-attributes="member: 22779">I've only read the first page of responses, but, here's my 2cp.[USER=29398]@Lanefan[/USER] nails it pretty much on the head right off.  5e has made magic so common that it's not really interesting, plus, most of the magic is pretty much the same as every other magic.  Back in the day, your cleric did not have ANY direct damage spells until quite high level.  Now, it makes more sense for your cleric to be lobbing Sacred Flame every single round instead of attacking with a mace.  And the only thing that really differentiates that cleric casting Sacred Flame to the Wizard casting Firebolt to that Druid casting Produce flame is the damage die.  Whoopee.  Clerics and druids in earlier editions would be far more likely to be mixing it up in melee than lobbing spells every single round.  Add to that the fact that pretty much every class has spells and we've gone from encounters where you might see a couple of spells to having spells absolutely dominating play every single round of combat and quite often being used outside of combat as well.Depending on how you define low magic, I'd say yes, it very much is.  My version of a low magic game means that in any given encounter, you might only see one or two spells.  Not multiple spells being cast every single round.</blockquote>