I need my magic, dammit!

Dan from Sword and Board's recent "Spellcasters as NPC only..." post got me pondering this, although I have seen the notion of fantasy games with no PC magic advocated before.

Frankly, I couldn't do it. I need magic. No matter what, my character has to have some superhuman power that doesn't exist in the real world or I just won't bother. It can be some flavor of actual magic, pseudoscience psionics, even being a virtual reality "decker" in a cyberpunk game, but it's gotta be there.

Sometimes the character is just a dabbler; a swordsman or thief or gunslinger or whatever who doesn't rely on the supernatural all the time. But again, the magic's gotta be there if I'm gonna be.

I can think of literally no example from the past twenty years of gaming of me making an exception to this rule or even considering doing so.

Of course, I didn't want to be seen as crapping up Dan's comment section with my naysaying, so I posted this here instead.

I wonder what this says about me? And how about you?