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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wombat" data-source="post: 1690430" data-attributes="member: 8447">There are a lot of reasons I prefer less frequent (and less powerful) magic in my games.The first point has been covered many times already -- such magics are much closer to the fantasy novels I have loved in my life:  Tolkein, Leiber, Le Guin, Kay, de Lint, etc.  Since the reason I got into gaming in the first place was the combination of running away from miniatures wargames and wanting to play in a world that felt roughly like the books I read.  High magic worlds, such as Moorcock, were less appealing to me.The second point has been covered less often, but bears repeating -- lots of magic means having to really think about the implications of those magics even with beginning characters.  Certainly a 1st level character does not have the ability to teleport or to raise the dead, but there are other characters in the same world (NPC) who do have those powers, especially BBEGs.  This means having to think in terms of those powers early in a campaign.  If such powers only come into play when the characters reach "higher" levels, then you are not being true to the game world.  This includes, of course, the concept of "magical technology" (which also bleeds over into another non-magical complaint, the overly capitalistic feel of such games, when the basic world is supposedly feudal/pre-capitalism) and the ease with which simple magical items for the masses.  Both of these factors lead to magic-as-physics and magic-as-ordinary, rather than magic-as-sense-of-wonder and magic-as-terrifying-power.  Lose that sense of wonder and, I feel, much of what I love in fantasy literature is lost.</blockquote>

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