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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 4216645" data-attributes="member: 6533">How on earth is cheap bad?Cheap is fantastic!  When I get to turn on my light once a day for an hour I get frustrated and unhappy.  When I get to use my light to turn day into night, read when I like, and protect my house from intruders the light has become cheap but my use of the light has become far more valuable.Cheap magic makes for valuable and awesome magicians.And, yeah, on a basic level DnD is not the tale of the Bildungsroman.DnD is now and has always been a story of the group where the Bildungsroman is the story of an individual ego.  DnD is also a Mennippean Satire genre where pieces are borrowed from everywhere so it can hunt the Bildungsroman down, kill it, and take its stuff but there's plenty of gear that Bildungsroman has equipped which DnD could never use very well.Where I to incorporate Bildungsroman into a game I would make the young hero the ward of the characters.  His destiny is to be Authur, their destiny is to be the first generation of the Knights of the Round Table.</blockquote>