>Here’s your low magic setting, players.
>Remember to die of incurable bubonic plague after tilling the fields for one silver piece.
>Oh, and you only have iron weapons because steel is so expensive. And your iron weapons break after a few hits.

>Here’s your high magic setting, players.
>there's a spell that exists to solve every problem
>there's a huge political powder keg over whether one should embrace real steel weapons or magically conjured ones

>hey DM, can we play in a middle of the road setting where Magic does exist but it's not so prolific that a level 1 cleric or wizard or druid possesses world changing powers and there's dozens of them in even a small city but also something where we're not living in some neckbeard edgelord's grimderp muh heckin realism everyone's a diseased rapist that dies to a bandit armed with a fork sadsack world? Like an in-between setting like lord of the rings maybe?
>"NO I'M A MIDWIT LAZY WANNABE CREATIVE WITH NO OUTLET BESIDES FORCING YOU TO BE MY DEFACTO PSYCHIATRISTS HELPING ME LARP OUT MY INFANTILE MORALITY SYSTEM IN THIS HOBBY THAT'S SUPPOSED TO BE LIGHTHEARTED ESCAPISM ENTERTAINMENT!"

These caliber of stellar threads is what I come to /tg/ for

>>95961247 (OP)
>Low Magic Setting
>Magic is actually interesting and not just an I win button
>Fighters get to fight and lead armies
>Meeting a high level caster is a adventure

idk sounds pretty kino, maybe you're just a faggot.

>>95961673
Low magic settings mean there’s almost no magic and it’s a grimderp slog where you die easily

>>95961715
That's not what low magic means at all. Stop confusing mudcore retardation with low magic.

>>95961247 (OP)
Does "low magic" mean that magic is rare, or magic is weak?

>>95961715
>Low magic settings mean there’s almost no magic
Low magic means the magical elements are suppressed in a way that they don't overtake the realism completely, it's more grounded in presentation.

You aren't going to have Dauntless the Overlord get off a giant iron throne carried by 100 slaves to run, jump 20 feet in the air, and punch the ground to cause an earthquake that takes out half the enemy army.

Instead you are going to have Lilly the apothecarian ask you to retrieve a foreign plant and use it with other chemicals to make a liquid that will supernaturally increase your body's immune system and regeneration. You won't regrow limbs, but you will be near or little above peak human in recovery as the drug works its way out of your system.

>>95961247 (OP)
>Oh, and you only have iron weapons because steel is so expensive. And your iron weapons break after a few hits.
Yeah I never got that, crucible steel certainly hasn't been too common until recent history but steel is really not that hard to make.

>>95961247 (OP)
Low fantasy and by extension grimderp need REALLY good hooks to get me invested and even with them most of the time they make better books than games and even the ones that make better books still fall flat because if you've read one low-fantasy grimderp you've read em all really

>>95962007
both

>>95961247 (OP)
what about middle fantasy so you have both worlds?

>>95961247 (OP)
Traditional games?

>here's a hobby where you can play games to do literally anything you can imagine
>I'm not going to do anything I can imagine and I'm not going to play any games
>instead, I'm going to bitch about what everyone else does in a passive-aggressive blog thread on a board for discussing games