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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DragonLancer" data-source="post: 1718757" data-attributes="member: 11868">I don't know Conan all that well. Never read the books, they simply never appealed to me and it took me well over 10 years to finish the LotR trilogy even though I wanted to read them.I would say from what I know, that Conan is low magic and low fantasy. Theres few real monsters and wizards are not throwing balls of flame or lightning bolts around. Its a story of a mighty warrior doing what he does. No grand quests or rings of power.Then on the other hand Middle Earth in my eyes is mid-magic and high fantasy. Its grand quests, fate the world type story, and magic appears in many forms (Sting, the One Ring, elven rope...etc). But when we look at Gandalf and Saruman, we don't see them throwing spells around left right and centre. We see (in D&D terms) scrying, light and a couple minor spells. You can have a low magic setting that has powerful mages and monsters. It just depends on the frequency and use of those beings. You can have high level wizards but they don't go around throwing spells or permanent teleport circles around - that would kill that feel. I run a DragonLance game, a setting I feel is high fantasy but low-magic. I use monsters as they are used in D&D, so beholders / medusa's / gorgons / demons... etc make appearences, but wizards are more concerned with protecting their magic from misuse and don't go using it for just anything. Others will surely disagree and say that what I am running is a mid-high level magic game, but its not. At the end of the day, low-magic means that its not everywhere. Villages may have access to a low-level cleric or druid who helps with healing or crops, but magic and casters are not so prevalent as to be everyday occurences.</blockquote>

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