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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8237907" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>Heh... well, the implications of magic in every single setting of D&D are completely ignored anyway. With the number of centuries if not <em>millenia</em> almost every single setting has had 9th level magic available to it... not a single setting would still be in the pseudo-medieval state they all appear to be. Every single one would have become so advanced that all of D&D should be d20 Modern at this point.</p><p></p><p>Look at where "science" has take our real world in the last 100 years, and we've had to invent and move one small advance at a time. What we have now technologically-speaking compared to what humanity looked like back in 1921. This is the reality of what learning and progress gives us. And yet we D&D players are supposed to believe that in the Forgotten Realms... their history goes back more than <strong>20,000</strong> years while still having the power and capabilities of what 9th level spells could give them that entire time... and yet no one ever advanced their technology with that magic to move beyond still living it thatched huts and using horses to pull carriages around. Please.</p><p></p><p>There is no reality whatsoever in any of these D&D settings that use magic not having advanced past medieval agrarian society. But we all willfully ignore it because we want our fantasy to include castles and knights and such. Which is fine and we all do that. But to do so we have had to willingly turn a blind eye to what magic does and NOT try to reason out what should "really" happen. And that means pretending that no one actually has infinite <em>Mold Earth</em> cantrips and is taking away jobs from ditch diggers and grave diggers and the like. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 8237907, member: 7006"] Heh... well, the implications of magic in every single setting of D&D are completely ignored anyway. With the number of centuries if not [I]millenia[/I] almost every single setting has had 9th level magic available to it... not a single setting would still be in the pseudo-medieval state they all appear to be. Every single one would have become so advanced that all of D&D should be d20 Modern at this point. Look at where "science" has take our real world in the last 100 years, and we've had to invent and move one small advance at a time. What we have now technologically-speaking compared to what humanity looked like back in 1921. This is the reality of what learning and progress gives us. And yet we D&D players are supposed to believe that in the Forgotten Realms... their history goes back more than [B]20,000[/B] years while still having the power and capabilities of what 9th level spells could give them that entire time... and yet no one ever advanced their technology with that magic to move beyond still living it thatched huts and using horses to pull carriages around. Please. There is no reality whatsoever in any of these D&D settings that use magic not having advanced past medieval agrarian society. But we all willfully ignore it because we want our fantasy to include castles and knights and such. Which is fine and we all do that. But to do so we have had to willingly turn a blind eye to what magic does and NOT try to reason out what should "really" happen. And that means pretending that no one actually has infinite [I]Mold Earth[/I] cantrips and is taking away jobs from ditch diggers and grave diggers and the like. :) [/QUOTE]
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