Make magic EPIC again in your TTRPG

Greetings mortals. In this video, we explore magic: how do we as gamemasters utilize it in a way that keeps our players engaged? Comment below your thoughts on my 3 main ideas, but also any other ideas I left out!
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[@raff3486]

"When everyone is super, no one is" -Syndrome

[@tabletopsandbox]

Exactly where my mind was when I said that

[@raff3486]

4:41 some of my players are magical, some of them are radical

[@grahamweaver4471]

Great new video Mr. Tabletop!

[@tabletopsandbox]

Many thanks mortal

[@Loweves2]

Awesome job. Have an extra cookie in your rations

[@tabletopsandbox]

I think I will. But not because you told me to, because I wanted to

[@flexorlamonticus]

I agree 100% with everything you said, but I also loved the Darksword novel series back when it originally came out (everyone had magic powers in the series, and it was all pretty cool), and I wonder if that type of play might also be fun.

[@tabletopsandbox]

I'm absolutely not against having magic be ubiquitous, but if that's the case, you have to work a lot harder to make it feel epic and majorly impactful

[@flexorlamonticus]

@@tabletopsandbox I wonder if the case can be made that ubiquitous magic works better in a novel than in an rpg... Although, as a bit of a push back, I do remember feeling weird about only having one spell when I played my first session of AD&D in the late 80s. I kind of felt like mages should be able to do at least a small bit of magic damage all day long, like in a video game. That is why I am a fan of casting low level spells as much as you want, but having to roll against a DC just like fighters have to hit an AC.

[@mistergoats4380]

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[@artistpoet5253]

Yeah. I don't like the 'superhero' power fantasy of 5e. D&D was about daring the dark spaces and getting out alive with that treasure. If everyone can cast light, see in the dark, detect magic and locate relic what's the point of the dice? Of the game? Might as well pour a few cups of coffee and sit around a cafe' table coming up with edgy backstories and then fuss about how your character is more broken than anyone else's. I mean broken as in mentally and emotionally not on paper with all the min/maxed feats and proficiency.

[@zaqsiefert5508]

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[@Elis_Epic_Life]

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[@Snorlulz]

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