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Are there too darn many spellcasters?
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<blockquote data-quote="5ekyu" data-source="post: 7322040" data-attributes="member: 6919838"><p>Which core assumption is that? </p><p></p><p>i would read something like "relatively few" as exactly what it says - relatively few compared to the rest of the people (a really big pool of people.) Most games i have seen, in play, have been that way. You walk into your average bar or average inn and if there are maybe 20 people there when you arrive maybe one would be a caster - often none - and as often or not that "caster" would be drawn from another core assumptions - the one about gods acting to influence etc and giving their agents their own flavor of magic.</p><p></p><p>Now, switch that around to be not "relatively few" to "relatively few among the opponents of the PCs" (which you seem to have done based on your counterspell) and suddenly you have skewed the initial source pool quite a bit. if every single enemy the PCs ever faced were a spellcaster (arcane not divine) and they were only 1 in 1000 of the arcane casters in the world then unless your world pop is really really really small... they would still be relatively few.</p><p></p><p>Simple fact is the PCs go into events and select events that put them up against mostly "not the average joes" as a matter of course. </p><p></p><p>Lets put it this way... in most areas "people needing to be rushed to the hospital are relative few" would be a true statement.</p><p></p><p>But that should not be taken to mean "EMTs should be astonished if they encounter someone who needs to be rushed to the hospital."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="5ekyu, post: 7322040, member: 6919838"] Which core assumption is that? i would read something like "relatively few" as exactly what it says - relatively few compared to the rest of the people (a really big pool of people.) Most games i have seen, in play, have been that way. You walk into your average bar or average inn and if there are maybe 20 people there when you arrive maybe one would be a caster - often none - and as often or not that "caster" would be drawn from another core assumptions - the one about gods acting to influence etc and giving their agents their own flavor of magic. Now, switch that around to be not "relatively few" to "relatively few among the opponents of the PCs" (which you seem to have done based on your counterspell) and suddenly you have skewed the initial source pool quite a bit. if every single enemy the PCs ever faced were a spellcaster (arcane not divine) and they were only 1 in 1000 of the arcane casters in the world then unless your world pop is really really really small... they would still be relatively few. Simple fact is the PCs go into events and select events that put them up against mostly "not the average joes" as a matter of course. Lets put it this way... in most areas "people needing to be rushed to the hospital are relative few" would be a true statement. But that should not be taken to mean "EMTs should be astonished if they encounter someone who needs to be rushed to the hospital." [/QUOTE]
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