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<blockquote data-quote="Flamestrike" data-source="post: 6925643" data-attributes="member: 6788736"><p>How prevalent is magic?</p><p></p><p>With clerics able to cure disease and druids able to speed plant growth and wizards able to fabricate stuff with a click of their fingers, you have a ton of spare time on your average peasants hands, and a major population boost right there.</p><p></p><p>Such a world would only be sparsely populated due to a) lots o monsters and b) repeated cataclsysms (the latter almost certianly caused by magic gone awry and MAD style exchanges/ backfires of epic magic stuff) - like what happened to the Suel empire or the Netherese.</p><p></p><p>Even with relatively stock DnD magic, you would wind up with a massive population boom and remarkable advances in technology (due to the spare time on everyones hands not used for farming or making stuff). From there magic gets involved and it becomes exponential.</p><p></p><p>If you can imagine the effects of things like divination on something like the stock market, you get the idea. </p><p></p><p>More magic = civilisation needs to have been wiped out several times or else you approach a 20th century population figure dominated by very wealthy and powerful meritocracies (with enormous temporal, magical, military and economic might) very fast.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Flamestrike, post: 6925643, member: 6788736"] How prevalent is magic? With clerics able to cure disease and druids able to speed plant growth and wizards able to fabricate stuff with a click of their fingers, you have a ton of spare time on your average peasants hands, and a major population boost right there. Such a world would only be sparsely populated due to a) lots o monsters and b) repeated cataclsysms (the latter almost certianly caused by magic gone awry and MAD style exchanges/ backfires of epic magic stuff) - like what happened to the Suel empire or the Netherese. Even with relatively stock DnD magic, you would wind up with a massive population boom and remarkable advances in technology (due to the spare time on everyones hands not used for farming or making stuff). From there magic gets involved and it becomes exponential. If you can imagine the effects of things like divination on something like the stock market, you get the idea. More magic = civilisation needs to have been wiped out several times or else you approach a 20th century population figure dominated by very wealthy and powerful meritocracies (with enormous temporal, magical, military and economic might) very fast. [/QUOTE]
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