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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jürgen Hubert" data-source="post: 424587" data-attributes="member: 7177">Regarding the "high magic = high technology" issue: I think it depends a lot on precisely what kind of magic we are talking about."Standard D&D" magic, for example, depends on the powers of highly skilled individuals. Their feats are impressive, but not easily reproduceable by laymen, and again, magic items can only be created by them.Modern-day technology, on the other hand, requires thousands of people to create the components. But once the manufacturing process is started, these "Items of Power" can be churned out in mass quantities, and are generally easily useable by almost everyone.But let's use another example of magic: Imagine a strongly animistic cosmology, where helpful spirits inhabit allmost every item, and "magic" would be persuading them to do your bidding.Something similar might actually happen with technology in the future. A good example of this is the <a href="http://www.sjgames.com/transhuman/" target="_blank">Transhuman Space</a> setting, where many people essentially treat the myriad AIs inhabiting their tools and household appliances as friendly and helpful spirits! (And sometimes, these items might need to be "exorcised" if an advirus or a Gypsy infomorph takes them over...)</blockquote>