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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fanaelialae" data-source="post: 8759669" data-attributes="member: 53980">Yeah, I have no issues with Faerun or Eberron existing, but I prefer PC-style magic be much rarer than that.Otherwise you lose the ability to tell lots of different stories. It doesn't make much sense for a plague to be threatening the kingdom if there's a high level cleric on every corner who can cast Lesser Restoration. You end up having to justify it with, well, this plague is immune to magic! This can have some unintentional consequences though, speaking as a player who lost a character I really liked to such a magic resistant plague. Speaking from experience, that is not a fun way for your character to go out. I think that DM realized it too, since in the decade since that he hasn't reused the trope.I much prefer to have a low magic world that was once much higher in magic. Spellcasters are quite rare. There are places in the world that were built to defend against casters, but these are rare and as their defenses fail the people of this time generally lack the knowledge to repair them. Certainly not everyone who would like to have such a sanctuary possesses one.Moreover, the evil necromancer you're hunting may have ordered his skeletal minions to crush every animal they see, but your typical orc isn't going to waste his or her entire day playing rat-whacker on the off chance that rat might be a familiar. To demonstrate a real world equivalent, there could be spyware on whatever device you're posting to this forum from. Do you spend significant amounts of time digging through your directories looking for suspicious files? Probably not. I have anti-virus software on my devices, but many people I know don't even have that (or they don't bother to update it so it's basically  worthless).Furthermore, if there are high level casters around every corner, it begs the question of why they haven't solved the problems the PCs are trying to solve. IMO, the most sensible solution is that casters (particularly high level ones) are rare and there aren't enough of them to go around.</blockquote>

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