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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 407868" data-attributes="member: 4720">That would explain why no one's ever been able to hypnotize me.But it also means I know some people who hand out trust VERY easily.  That's kind of frightening.Have you thought about the effects of an actual supply and demand economy?  Certain very useful spells of low level would have VERY inflated prices.  Plus, there's the very real possibility that certain industries would try to block them.  If I had a wand of mending, I would never need to buy clothes again.  Clothiers would go up in smoke.  Once manufacturing techniques brought the price of level 3 spells down low enough, college students would switch from Ramen noodles to wands of create food and water.  Entire unions would balk at Unseen Servant becoming available.Can you imagine the protests at universities when the government orders them to cease and desist making wands of... well, a lot of things <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />If we're assuming that most magical research would occur at universities, the economies of college towns would become incredibly unstable, as the spells that save students money would be among the first things they learn (light, mending, etc.), and college towns operate by gouging students (some of them are already unstable with the advent on the internet, and this would be far worse).And I don't want to imagine the effect of Charm person in the dating scene.</blockquote>

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