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<blockquote data-quote="ConcreteBuddha" data-source="post: 446887" data-attributes="member: 3139"><p>If the population grows, then there are more wizards because the percentage of wizards in the populace stays the same. The amount of magic items continue to grow.</p><p></p><p>I'm not saying the magic items <strong> must </strong> trickle down from the top, only that it <strong> can </strong> trickle down. If the powerful mages and merchants have an incentive for doing so.</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>Mass production? Wizards enchant the tools to make the axes. How does Craftsman do it? Assembly lines.</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>How long does it take for a person from the stone age to be completely acclimated with the World Wide Web, all of classical physics, and Kant? From age 4 until age 24 at least.</p><p></p><p>Hence the reason they had universities and schools. The printing press. The spread of information.</p><p></p><p>The reason why DnD has so many "commoners" is because they must spend every waking moment worrying about food. Their livelihood does not allow them the luxury of using their brains for the pursuit of knowledge.</p><p></p><p>Make food plentiful, then what do you have? Lots of commoners with nothing to do but work in service industries and mass-manufacturing.</p><p></p><p>Hence the Automatic Plow. Hence the Magical Apple Picker. Hence the Arcane-Herd-o-Matic.</p><p></p><p>Then you'd see lots of people in college, just learning how to use the doodads... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ConcreteBuddha, post: 446887, member: 3139"] If the population grows, then there are more wizards because the percentage of wizards in the populace stays the same. The amount of magic items continue to grow. I'm not saying the magic items [B] must [/B] trickle down from the top, only that it [B] can [/B] trickle down. If the powerful mages and merchants have an incentive for doing so. [B] [/B] Mass production? Wizards enchant the tools to make the axes. How does Craftsman do it? Assembly lines. [B] [/B] How long does it take for a person from the stone age to be completely acclimated with the World Wide Web, all of classical physics, and Kant? From age 4 until age 24 at least. Hence the reason they had universities and schools. The printing press. The spread of information. The reason why DnD has so many "commoners" is because they must spend every waking moment worrying about food. Their livelihood does not allow them the luxury of using their brains for the pursuit of knowledge. Make food plentiful, then what do you have? Lots of commoners with nothing to do but work in service industries and mass-manufacturing. Hence the Automatic Plow. Hence the Magical Apple Picker. Hence the Arcane-Herd-o-Matic. Then you'd see lots of people in college, just learning how to use the doodads... ;) [/QUOTE]
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