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<blockquote data-quote="Tsyr" data-source="post: 4287888" data-attributes="member: 354"><p>Well I'm not Byron, but at a guess...</p><p></p><p>If I was wanting to run a high-fantasy game, my choices for system would be entirely different than if I wanted to run a low fantasy game. For high fantasy, I might pick some prior version of DnD, or perhaps Exalted, or something else. But by contrast, if I wanted to run a low fantasy game, I might still pick an older version of DnD, or I might pick Riddle of Steel, or maybe Ars Magica or Witch Hunter or something else. </p><p></p><p>I certainly wouldn't pick Exalted for a low fantasy game, although I concede that with enough rules manipulation you could maybe use it for one, because its system doesn't mesh well with my conception of low fantasy. By the same token, I could introduce enough spells and magic systems to make Riddle of Steel into high fantasy, but I wouldn't. </p><p></p><p>In both cases, older versions of DnD could fit, just by trimming away some excess fat. It doesn't, to me, feel this way in 4E. 4E feels like I would have a much harder time making it something beyond "Points of Light".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tsyr, post: 4287888, member: 354"] Well I'm not Byron, but at a guess... If I was wanting to run a high-fantasy game, my choices for system would be entirely different than if I wanted to run a low fantasy game. For high fantasy, I might pick some prior version of DnD, or perhaps Exalted, or something else. But by contrast, if I wanted to run a low fantasy game, I might still pick an older version of DnD, or I might pick Riddle of Steel, or maybe Ars Magica or Witch Hunter or something else. I certainly wouldn't pick Exalted for a low fantasy game, although I concede that with enough rules manipulation you could maybe use it for one, because its system doesn't mesh well with my conception of low fantasy. By the same token, I could introduce enough spells and magic systems to make Riddle of Steel into high fantasy, but I wouldn't. In both cases, older versions of DnD could fit, just by trimming away some excess fat. It doesn't, to me, feel this way in 4E. 4E feels like I would have a much harder time making it something beyond "Points of Light". [/QUOTE]
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