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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ath'kethin" data-source="post: 8093193" data-attributes="member: 6798775">5e works beautifully as a low magic or no magic game; it's all I've ever run with it and I frankly see no reason to run it any other way.Certainly, some assumptions needed to change in my games, and players/PCs need to approach many situations quite differently. But there is a host of literature that approaches settings from this perspective, which can be a great guide.When I run 5e, I use the Primeval Thule setting as a baseline, integrating aspects of the World of Xoth. It's very Sword & Sorcery, very Conan/Fafhrd & the Mouser esque.I ban all full casters except warlocks and all magic-using subclasses of other classes. As others have noted, this approach leaves plenty of character class/subclass options. In my games monks are a goblin tradition, which adds some interesting background to any character that wants to follow that path.I DO allow the Ritual Caster feat, as well as Magic Initiate and the feat chain stemming from it that was in one of the playtest packets. I also add the Ritual tag to Magic Circle (why wasn't it there already?).Now, I don't go NO magic (obviously from the above), and I still have some magic items, but my approach is that any item with a name (i.e. Flame Tongue) is unique and there is only one of them in the world. More generic items (arrows +1) are non-magical, so they might still provide an attack and damage bonus but do not bypass damage resistance/immunity.I've run three campaigns this way since 2015, with a total of 11 players, and the campaigns were awesome. The biggest was Tomb of Annihilation, which was also the only "official" one I used in its entirety, and all were roaring successes both in my opinion and according to the players in themEspecially if you've already put a bunch of money I to 5e books, there's absolutely no reason to pick up a different game to do what you want here. It works fine.</blockquote>

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