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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 4007031" data-attributes="member: 3649">The major overhaul that needs to occur in the perceptions of a lot of people is this: Wizards don't interfere in the matters of normals. They generally keep to themselves and hoarde their knowledge, and almost never use it save to serve their own ends or as part of some much larger design or plan. They will never light a town using Continual Flame even though after a point that would be a trivial thing for them. They will never make a magic item just because someone, even a King, dumps a bunch of gold in their lap. They are forever Apart from most people. Same with clerics, really. Even the good ones don't just heal anyone, even if it means that power goes unused.A corollary to this: people fear wizards and, really, any spell caster. They may appreciate them, they might even send round a fruitcake every Christmas, but on some level they are afraid of them and go out of their way to avoid them. Same goes with spell-casting clerics.That level of conceptual, cultural seperation is nessesary if you want a D&D that resembles any sort of middle ages world.</blockquote>