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Message: <blockquote data-quote="s/LaSH" data-source="post: 677814" data-attributes="member: 6929">Wait, an idea occured to me.Why do the high-level characters work in an army at all?If you're a dragonslayer out to make a living, you don't kill hundreds of enemy soldiers, you kill another dragon in a lost realm far from civilisation and blow a few thousand gp on ale when you get back.If you're an archmage who has pierced the planes of existance and can summon infernal forces to your side, why do you obey the requests of a king who wants you to blow up some plebians? In a few hundred years your armies of DOOM will sweep over the countryside under your own command, anyway. (Or if you're good, you'll be blasting those infernal forces in pursuit of mystic artifacts or something.)If you're a rogue who can sneak into the king's palace and steal his crown, what possible motivation could you have for him promising you great riches if you assassinate the enemy leader? (OK, there could be a case for employment here...)But my overall point is: high-level characters don't necessarily think of war as being in their best interests.Another point: The wielders of great mystic power might have a pact to keep it out of the hands of the general political landscape. Even if they don't now, the casualties that magical proliferation would incur in a major war would probably force the adoption of some set of protocols to this end once the mages and priests saw how much havoc they could wreak.</blockquote>

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