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<blockquote data-quote="Emirikol" data-source="post: 4385802" data-attributes="member: 10638"><p>We ran low magic Conan D&D throughout 3.0 and 3.5. It was a blast. It was easier with 3rd edition stuff.</p><p></p><p>4e with the Mearls quote, should also be easy to low-magic. Dont' feel like you need to dole out what I playfully call " player-coddling bonuses," because you as the DM are smart enough not to throw epic level monsters at them <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=":)" /> Your main difficulty will be the absolute lack of normal creatures in the monster manual (leaving you glazed-over with epic level stuff you'll never use <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>You can tone-down "spellcasters" by simply removing one or two at-will utility spells and telling the player to replace them with a non-spellcaster ability. It shouldn't be hard and obviously will not break the game. Hopefully spellcasters too will be sleightly weakened so that players "avoid" them rather than you having to house rule a bunch of stuff.</p><p></p><p>You can also superficially remove magical items by simply saying that no item is magical until it is +4 or higher and anything less is simply "superior mastercrafted." That worked well for me.</p><p></p><p>jh</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Emirikol, post: 4385802, member: 10638"] We ran low magic Conan D&D throughout 3.0 and 3.5. It was a blast. It was easier with 3rd edition stuff. 4e with the Mearls quote, should also be easy to low-magic. Dont' feel like you need to dole out what I playfully call " player-coddling bonuses," because you as the DM are smart enough not to throw epic level monsters at them :) Your main difficulty will be the absolute lack of normal creatures in the monster manual (leaving you glazed-over with epic level stuff you'll never use ;) You can tone-down "spellcasters" by simply removing one or two at-will utility spells and telling the player to replace them with a non-spellcaster ability. It shouldn't be hard and obviously will not break the game. Hopefully spellcasters too will be sleightly weakened so that players "avoid" them rather than you having to house rule a bunch of stuff. You can also superficially remove magical items by simply saying that no item is magical until it is +4 or higher and anything less is simply "superior mastercrafted." That worked well for me. jh [/QUOTE]
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