kamosa
Explorer
Bendris Noulg said:The problems you perceive and keep returning to have been dealt with a hundred times over, in this thread and others, and does get really tiring. After all, isn't 3E supposed to be about options? Why must this option be considered tabboo, impossible, power-GMing, or any other negative inclination? Doesn't the continued success and popularity of the above products as well as the successes of individual GMing throughout the world dispel the myth that low magic isn't a functional preference?
Or does WotC have to actually do it themselves?
I haven't seen the sales numbers for the products you mentioned above, so I wouldn't agree that they are popular settings. In fact, even though I go to a pretty good game store two or three times a month, I had only seen a couple of those supliments. So, I guess I wouldn't conceed that they demonstrate that people really want low level gaming. In the age of self publishing, just putting out a product proves nothing.
However, I would say that I have heard of a number of attempts to launch low power systems. I would say the continued failure of any system that plays low magic is pretty good evidence that there isn't some ground swell of support for those products. On the other hand, standard D&D keeps chugging along.