Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Haltherrion" data-source="post: 5124032" data-attributes="member: 18253">And mages killing each other off is certainly an aspect of your campaign and hardly typical. When considering the effect of magic on a world, it doesn't seem to make much sense to me to hew too closely to guides that were created to enable a game. Those guides are fine for what they are meant (suggestions on one way to run a world) but hardly are the bible of magic worlds and societies. This post is about a mental exercise: what would happen to castles if there was magic and monsters in the world. A DMG may claim mages would be rare and perhaps they would be in the typical realm. But can you image a Rome or any other conquering power not exploiting something as potent as a mage? It's how conquerors became conquerors: they couple a drive to expand with effective exploitation of available methods. Magic seems quite exploitable with the right infrastructure. Maybe few can pull that off but then, how many city-states in the ancient world had the wherewithal to become Rome? It just takes a few to show the way.</blockquote>