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<blockquote data-quote="Jürgen Hubert" data-source="post: 2992886" data-attributes="member: 7177">Oh, I think it could work together with magic perfectly well - even open magic.All you need is some sort of guild structure to which mages must automatically belong, and which tries to channel any research into the &quot;right&quot; direction (or else discourages all magical research and only allows mages to learn spells by rote from its admittedly vast collection). Warhammer Fantasy has a similar attitude - its mages are only allowed to operate under firm strictures, like &quot;do not meddle with the Forces of Chaos&quot;.Of course, there is always some wizard who thinks that he is brighter than everyone else and meddles with Things Man Was Not Meant To Know. Cue the tentacles.Basically, magic is too damn useful to be suppressed in general. However, part of the job of senior wizards and the Expendables is to conceal just how easy it is to conjure up some really large-scale disasters. Because if that became known, the public would turn against magic in its entirety and demand the outlawing of wizardry - but that would only make civilization more vulnerable.And it's allright if the public knows of the planes. The planes are where the souls of people go&nbsp; when they die. However, the Expendables conceal the existence of other planes, where the Things From Outside lurk who want to gain access to our world to gorge themselves upon it.Oh, and you absolutely should include faeries in the things that need to be suppressed. After all, faeries from myth and legend tend to be fairly vicious little bastards, and there are quite a few parallels to UFO myths in any case...&quot;That's fascinating, citizen. Now, could you please look at the tip of this wand?&quot;&lt;blinding flash&gt;&quot;Now repeat after me: There is no such things as faeries...&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jürgen Hubert, post: 2992886, member: 7177"] Oh, I think it could work together with magic perfectly well - even open magic. All you need is some sort of guild structure to which mages must automatically belong, and which tries to channel any research into the "right" direction (or else discourages [i]all[/i] magical research and only allows mages to learn spells by rote from its admittedly vast collection). Warhammer Fantasy has a similar attitude - its mages are only allowed to operate under firm strictures, like "do not meddle with the Forces of Chaos". Of course, there is always some wizard who thinks that he is brighter than everyone else and meddles with Things Man Was Not Meant To Know. Cue the tentacles. Basically, magic is too damn useful to be suppressed in general. However, part of the job of senior wizards and the Expendables is to conceal just how [i]easy[/i] it is to conjure up some really large-scale disasters. Because if that became known, the public would turn against magic in its entirety and demand the outlawing of wizardry - but that would only make civilization more vulnerable. And it's allright if the public knows of the planes. The planes are where the souls of people go when they die. However, the Expendables conceal the existence of [i]other[/i] planes, where the Things From Outside lurk who want to gain access to our world to gorge themselves upon it. Oh, and you absolutely should include faeries in the things that need to be suppressed. After all, faeries from myth and legend tend to be fairly vicious little bastards, and there are quite a few parallels to UFO myths in any case... "That's fascinating, citizen. Now, could you please look at the tip of this wand?" <blinding flash> "Now repeat after me: There is no such things as faeries..." [/QUOTE]

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