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Originally Posted by Nightshade

1. It's narrow. Even a rune priest with a large amount of rune magic doesn't typically have a wide range of it, because that usually requires access to multiple cults, and that's anything but typical; its often in practice impossible to combine some spell access options in some settings (as an example, a Gloranthan priest is, for self-evident reasons, going to not be able to access both Lunar and Storm magics in any way that I can think of barring possibly Illumination).

I'll concede that. The magic is powerful, but for obvious reasons doesn't move outside the realm of the diety.

2. Its impressive in its own context, but not in an absolute sense by the standards many people are aware of. Using the most well known example, almost no rune spell compares to anything beyond a 5th level D&D spell, and even those that compare to lower level ones are usually weaker in at least some respect (there's essentially no significant area damage spells for example, and the few that there are have pretty small areas).

I'd argue that they're more powerful than the D&D spells because they have a much larger affect on the people casting them and their oppoenents. However...

There are perfectly good reasons why this is the case, but people asked why some people don't like BRP. That's one of the reasons why.

I entered in the discussion comparing various BRP magic systems to each other. The discussion was already off the original topic. I understand that some people don't like BRP. They're wrong of course , but they have the right their own opinion.