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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thunderfoot" data-source="post: 4974445" data-attributes="member: 34175">First off, I want to apologize - (yeah you heard right).  I get passionate when an uber-fantasy fan calls grim and gritty a power trip, it set me off and so - I'm sorry.I do have a couple of comments to sharpen my point without being as confrontational...Auld Grump has the right of it.  I like having a solid starting point so that when the players go far afield it makes me smile.  I don't like when the rules go far afield and the players take it farther, it makes my head hurt....It's more of a sense of foundation to build off of than power control.  G&G is a personal thing, I get that, Hussar, thanks for not blasting me for my ill timed comment though you could have rightfully done so.  But I think you saw through what I said to what I was "trying" to say.  It IS possible to have an epic campaign without losing that "realistic" feel, it takes work, a lot of work, but that becomes a labor of love.  My last campaign was co-DM'd with a more free form DM who interjected a bit of fantastic magic without first consulting me.  I let it stand, obviously you can't take back what was given without making people go, huh?  But we had a long civilized discussion of why it could be dangerous - "power corrupts and absolute power...." - even in the hands of NPCs.I guess my point is I like to see players use something other than uber powers to overcome obstacles.  I guess it comes from having to do it when I was a young player and I just expect it to be a part of the hobby for the ages, and whether rightly or wrongly (IMO) I see newer players being less imaginative and more imitative.  I did it too, but only in doses, I liked to emulate the heroes I read about, but it was finite, I see a trend to recreate whatever is popular this week and completely import it into home-games.  Yes, I'm getting old, yes I'm becoming that grognard I reared and respected when I was but a lad in the 70s; I have kids that play that will soon enough be having their own kids (but not too soon I hope) that will also play, I guess for me it is a little personal when I see the future of gaming move towards technology versus imagination and that "my" game is becoming "their" game.  I realize I've gone far afield and hijacked this thread a bit, sorry for that, but I think it is relevant in that approach is, by and large, a learned thing in DMing.  I learned gritty, I live gritty, I teach gritty, seeing something else just makes me scratch my head and go, why?</blockquote>

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