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<blockquote data-quote="Quasqueton" data-source="post: 3605907" data-attributes="member: 3854">Whenever someone talks about a preference for, or a setting is, low magic, they always comment, &quot;there are no Magic-Walmarts&quot; (or Magimarts, etc.). This kind of statement makes no sense.The setting suggested in the core rules has no &quot;Magic-Walmarts&quot;. Greyhawk has no Magic-Walmarts. I'm not real familiar with Eberron or Forgotten Realms, but I don't think they have Magic-Walmart-style stores either.The only times I've ever heard of anything like a Magic-Walmart in a D&amp;D campaign, it was in a 1984 Dragon magazine, and when I played one game session with a new DM around 1991. Both of those were aberrations from the norm.So, saying your preference/setting is low magic &quot;with no Magic-Walmarts&quot; is like saying your preference/setting is low power -- no god killing PCs. 99% of everyone's preference and setting qualifies as low magic if the definition is &quot;no Magic-Walmarts.&quot;Is &quot;high magic&quot; defined by the existence of Magic-Walmarts? If so, there are very, very few high magic settings. Other than the two strange situations I mention above, I've never seen or heard of any.So why does this phrase and comparison exist as a measuring stick? If a DM was trying to entice me to his game by saying it was low magic because there are no Magic-Walmarts, I'd have laugh. &quot;So, it's just like Forgotten Realms, then?&quot;Quasqueton</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Quasqueton, post: 3605907, member: 3854"] Whenever someone talks about a preference for, or a setting is, low magic, they always comment, "there are no Magic-Walmarts" (or Magimarts, etc.). This kind of statement makes no sense. The setting suggested in the core rules has no "Magic-Walmarts". Greyhawk has no Magic-Walmarts. I'm not real familiar with Eberron or Forgotten Realms, but I don't think they have Magic-Walmart-style stores either. The only times I've ever heard of anything like a Magic-Walmart in a D&D campaign, it was in a 1984 Dragon magazine, and when I played one game session with a new DM around 1991. Both of those were aberrations from the norm. So, saying your preference/setting is low magic "with no Magic-Walmarts" is like saying your preference/setting is low power -- no god killing PCs. 99% of everyone's preference and setting qualifies as low magic if the definition is "no Magic-Walmarts." Is "high magic" defined by the existence of Magic-Walmarts? If so, there are very, very few high magic settings. Other than the two strange situations I mention above, I've never seen or heard of any. So why does this phrase and comparison exist as a measuring stick? If a DM was trying to entice me to his game by saying it was low magic because there are no Magic-Walmarts, I'd have laugh. "So, it's just like Forgotten Realms, then?" Quasqueton [/QUOTE]

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