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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeph" data-source="post: 406674" data-attributes="member: 6738">If you think about it, every single person with Int 10+ will be a Wizard.Just think: It used to be that only the lelite had access to education. In dnd, only the elite had access to schools of wizardry. Now, everyone learns in school. In DnD 2002, wizardry would doubtless be part of the core curriculum, along with Science, Math, Social Studies, and Language Arts. Highschool grads would probably all be around Wiz4, and Colledge grads would be Wiz5 or 6. If you majored in wizardry, you;d be at least a Wiz10 by the time you got your postdoc. This makes Magic Items relatively common, as joe schmoe will probably be working on a Refrigerator of Coldness in his basement, and Jane Schmane will be building  a Windless Windsurfer for her vacatrion next summer. Most average schleps will be able to make 5-6 magic items in their life. Spells will be everyday, and there will be billions upon billions of them. The internet will have countless databases, and those stan cults will be particularly satanic.Let me go into how magical warfare would be fought:In 1939, the US ended World War II when it had a medium-level wizard cast Teleport Object on a Nuke, which was finished earlier due to magical enhancement. The nuke went strait to the center of Hitler's bunker, and BAM! How did they find Hitler's bunker? Scry. Now, all major cities are surrounded by Nullification Field Projecters. They create an inch-thick Antimagic Field around the entire city. These projectors are positioned 12 miles away from the city's edge. This way, Nukes can't be teleported into a city, and even if a nuke is dropped off at the border of the field, the blast won't reach urban areas.On September the 11th, 2001, the World Trade Center was hit by a Maximized, Empowered, Heightened flame strike. This had been cast into Scroll by Osama ben Ladin, a Cleric 20, claiming that his patron diety is Allah. The Fireball melted the WTCs supports, collapsing the building, and killing or injurring thousands. Post 9/11, the US Gov't has declared that usage of magic is illegal in all public areas. Antimagic Fields now coat all major US cities, except in specially prepaired and gaurded rooms in secret military bases, and some universities.The US Marines are an elite group of Rangers. They use their innate divine spellcasting ability to penetrate deep into enemy forces, and strike hard and fast. The Green Barets are a group of Psychic Warriors, all around level 16. Check out the Sultons of Smack thread for an idea of how deadly the US Special Forces are.Durring the Cold War, russia got fed up. So, they killed thousands of their citizens, and magically reanimated them as vampires. The russian forces were able to rip through almost all opposition, and were only quelled by a strong barrage of Disjunction Detonaters from the US. Thank Mordenkainen for Disjunctions.Crime was way out of controll. Psion-Rogues would use Teleport, Invisibility, Displacement, Dimension Door, Chamelion, and similar powers to break into even the most secure areas. Until the police wized up: All vaults are now Antimagic Fielded, and special cameras that can see into the 'Invisible' bandwidth have been programmed to shoot multiple Ray of Enfeeblements at anything that moves. By 1950, other worlds had been colonized using Teleport and Telekenetic Sphere. Magicala and Psionic forcefields were erected around colonies on airless worlds, and satelites programmed with Teleport, Scry, and Fireball (channeled to create thrusts) quickly found hundreds of habitable worlds. All of these planets are constantly in contact via the ScyNet, and several houses had Transdimensional Corridors installed by 2013. Transplanar commerce has always been a great benefit to those in Japan. No one else seems to have the manpower and the tech to set up stable Transplanar Navigation Nexi like them. They have set up trading colonies on the Energy Plane of Time, allowing them to get any amount of anything at a moments notice. Unfortunately, this caused major global economic destabalization when it was in full-swing--the Japanese now have production limiting laws, as do all other countries.Disease no longer existed, or so we thought. Not a single bacteria had shown up for over 90 years, thanks to Cure Disease and Heal, until when, in 1996 a plague from Limbo was released on the Earth by Gate that was left open a few seconds too long. Because we all had virtually no immunity, and the disease was resistant to magic thanks to it's incredable reproduction rate (and therefore adaptability). the disease killed over half of the world's population before stopped.Just a taste of the . . . erm . . . present, I guess. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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