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<blockquote data-quote="PeterWeller" data-source="post: 3924004" data-attributes="member: 55795">I think this is most important.&nbsp; RC's system works fine for a REH style world where dragons are just dinosaurs and demons are (apparently) just mildly vicious spirits (though I suspect that Conan D20 works even better), but the minute you want to start emulating a whole host of other &quot;low magic&quot; settings, your characters are boned.&nbsp; The system doesn't support fighting high end monsters without a load of magic gear (actually it doesn't support fighting many mid level monsters without magic stuff either), which means Bard and Saint George would have been nothing more than small piles of ash, unless their DM rewrote the stat blocks for their foes.&nbsp; There is, of course, always that option on top of any other houseruling, but now we're getting past &quot;one simple house rule and some common sense.&quot;Now, to bring this back to 4E, we've been told that Fighters and their sort are going to be on an equal power footing with spell casters.&nbsp; We've seen nothing to indicate that they will get magic wuxia abilities to do this.&nbsp; We have evidence that a party can be successful at fairly decent levels without a single magic item (the last Podcast).&nbsp; Ipso facto, 4E looks like it will be able to do low magic with much more ease than 3E.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="PeterWeller, post: 3924004, member: 55795"] I think this is most important. RC's system works fine for a REH style world where dragons are just dinosaurs and demons are (apparently) just mildly vicious spirits (though I suspect that Conan D20 works even better), but the minute you want to start emulating a whole host of other "low magic" settings, your characters are boned. The system doesn't support fighting high end monsters without a load of magic gear (actually it doesn't support fighting many mid level monsters without magic stuff either), which means Bard and Saint George would have been nothing more than small piles of ash, unless their DM rewrote the stat blocks for their foes. There is, of course, always that option on top of any other houseruling, but now we're getting past "one simple house rule and some common sense." Now, to bring this back to 4E, we've been told that Fighters and their sort are going to be on an equal power footing with spell casters. We've seen nothing to indicate that they will get magic wuxia abilities to do this. We have evidence that a party can be successful at fairly decent levels without a single magic item (the last Podcast). Ipso facto, 4E looks like it will be able to do low magic with much more ease than 3E. [/QUOTE]

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