Being low magic does not stop something from being a D&D clone. Let's face it, ALL RPGs are ultimately derived from D&D in some way, just as everything Fantasy ultimately owes its origins to Tolkien. There's no escaping the shadow of either.
Sorry, if I sound harsh, but with THAT kind/way of argumentation, you call ANY game "yet another boring D&D clone" - even the Ultima series.
With THESE kinds of arguments, it is imo just too easy to divide gamex between "oh those [boring9 D&D clones" and "D&D gams". I mean with this, that this implicitely implies that everything that is just D&D is ORIGINAL, and calling a game "just a clone" negates the work and the energy put into it.
Bsically, you can call EVERYTHING, ALL role-playing games OF THE WHOLE WORLD as "D&D clones". Because D&D was he FIRST - and hat *implies* that EVERYTHING after that is nothing but "just a clone".
Birthright.
As long as people continue to acually compare EVERYTHING with the almighy Über-father of all role-playing games, two or three things will happen :
- all others AUTOMATICALLY lose - t least from the point of view of those who now all of the (A)D&D rule systems and setting too well, so that that can't erase their minds from that anymore - comparing everything against D&D becomes kind of natural
- people will have then their minds set so that they can't be open anymore for new and unique settingsor rule sets - because EVERYTHING is just nothing but derived from the almighty Über-father f all RPGs
- talk about prejudices : people will become so much used to what they know best that they just can't see clear anymore. It's like someone just loves backed potatos (
) and doesn't want to eat anything else anymore - plus he always compares the taste of his beloved baked potatos with ANY kind of food - be it carrots, apples, lasagne, pizza, ice-cream, whtever.
Which basically means that I'm against THAT way of comparing everything against the almighty Über-father of all RPGs. This just doesbn't pay tribute at all to all of the work and the energy someone puts into a new setting, and into new rule systems.
It's like as if you would say that my own fantasy short stories taking place in my own fantasy universe are basically nothing but a rip-off of (A)D&D and its settings.
This would be just an inult to me, because I'm influenced, yes, but I also have my OWN ideas. It would be negating, neglecting them.
Same with any developing studio that just develops its own ideas (Albion, anyone ?).
