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<blockquote data-quote="chitzk0i" data-source="post: 2469144" data-attributes="member: 34584">Not Chitzk0i, VirgilCaineNow see, this is what doesn't make any sense in a campaign where magic has been around for thousands of years in human hands. This would already be done, thousands of years ago. The players say,&quot;Hey, we could do X basic thing like this!&quot; And you come back with, &quot;Yeah, somebody already thought of that...5000 years ago.&quot;I have done some math, and one decanter, with it's contents fed into the city by aquifer or magically distributed via fountains conveniently placed throughout a city, could feed at least 25,000 people--the &quot;upper limit&quot; for D&amp;D communities. With Move Earth, you could form a large hill with a depression in it, to form a reservoir for the excess water from the decanter. Of course, even assuming you wanted to get high-level spellcasters to create them (to avoid them being suppressed or something), they take a tiny amount of time to make.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="chitzk0i, post: 2469144, member: 34584"] [b]Not Chitzk0i, VirgilCaine[/b] Now see, this is what doesn't make [i]any[/i] sense in a campaign where magic has been around for thousands of years in human hands. This would already be done, thousands of years ago. The players say,"Hey, we could do X basic thing like this!" And you come back with, "Yeah, somebody already thought of that...5000 years ago." I have done some math, and one decanter, with it's contents fed into the city by aquifer or magically distributed via fountains conveniently placed throughout a city, could feed at least 25,000 people--the "upper limit" for D&D communities. With Move Earth, you could form a large hill with a depression in it, to form a reservoir for the excess water from the decanter. Of course, even assuming you wanted to get high-level spellcasters to create them (to avoid them being suppressed or something), they take a tiny amount of time to make. [/QUOTE]

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