[Nightshade]

Originally Posted by RMS

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

But that is an issue for those wanting a high-magic system.

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...

I'm not particularly convinced this is true when compared to many post 4th level spells, honestly. The limitation usually is the fact that there's a functional cap on most rune magic in that there's no fixed power spells about 3 points; that means unless you're writing your rune magic to no common standard, there's a cap beyond how powerful a rune spell can go, and given that the exemplars here tend to be things like Slay Living (its been a while so I may be confusing the name with a spell from another system--the spell that's usually only reusable by Humakti in Glorantha) or Sunspear, those are functionally the top end of the power level, and those aren't compareable to 6th or higher level spells in D&D, or some of the more potent magic that can be found in other systems.

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.

Well, at least part of that discussion seemed to be discussing the absolute power of the magic systems available, so I still felt it appropriate to comment.