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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Drifter Bob" data-source="post: 1704359" data-attributes="member: 17723">I'm sorry, but this is pure sophistry.  Few of the items in LOTR were overtly magical, (just because a king gives you a helmet or a mail shirt doesn't make it magic), and the truly powerful magic was very rare and available only to the most powerful characters..  The scrying stones are classic examples.  Yes, even in a low magic campaign, the most powerful wizards in the entire world should have the ability to scry, that makes sense.  However, on the other hand, neither Sauruman nor Ganfalf could casually summon demons or fling meteor storms around at will or throw up prismatic walls... and nobody in LOTR seemed to be able to cast ressurection or even raise dead.  The magic in there is subtle, for the most part, and the few truly powerful items like the one ring or even sting or that mythril shirt stand out for their importance as a result.If it was a normal magic D&D game (let alone high magic) the whole group would have had mythril plate armor, they would have teleported to Mount Doom (or at least flew) and they would have slain all those armies of orcs at Helms Deep with cloudkill spells instead of bothering with strategy of any sort...They also would have stopped at the first town they could find and bought up cases of potions of extra healing, scrolls of monster summoning, wands of fireball, rods of absorption, and +5 cloaks of protection before setting out on their journey.DB</blockquote>

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