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The Difference in Howard & Tolkien & DnD Magic Systems

Difference between a regular DnD System & a Mythological one

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Dec 30, 2023
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It is not hard to detect a significant difference between how Howard and Tolkien approached ‘Magic’. Both are very unique and both left their mark on the genre we now call ‘Fantasy’, with both set of writers ones who loved to take their magic systems in two very different yet similar directions.

Both of them saw magic not exactly as we do to-day since Dn…

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