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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5618630" data-attributes="member: 82106">Eh, I haven't tried to do an S&S style game with 4e, but I'm thinking it would be a LOT more appropriate for this than say 3.5 or PF where the evil bad guy wizard or cleric would laugh heartily and mop the floor with our doughty barbarian. At best you'd certainly have to carefully craft a scenario where Conan would come out on top. In 4e ritual magic would seem really appropriate for an S&S type game, bad guys were always performing demon summoning rituals, sacrifices, etc. In fact you might even build a bad guy evil wizard as virtually nothing but a ritual caster with only some basic combat casting and otherwise needing to fallback on some rather inferior MBA. The other advantage with 4e being you can pretty easily restrict the PCs to appropriate archetypes (IE all martial or something along those lines), and low magic is quite easy in 4e. Of course none of this is to say that 4e is aimed squarely at this sub-genre and there are other systems that may do this particular type of game better than any version of D&D. Still, I'm having trouble seeing where 4e is terribly inappropriate.I think there are a lot of ways to potentially interpret PoL. It could go anywhere from a sort of frontier type area where civilization is being pressed hard and has few resources, all the way to a super dark macabre setting ala William Hope Hodgson (The Night Land) where all that remains of civilization are a few redoubts surrounded by terrifying forces of darkness and the sun itself vanished so long ago its existence is only hinted at in the most ancient records.</blockquote>

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