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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ibram" data-source="post: 1830745" data-attributes="member: 17640">thats a campaign flavor issue.  My campaign draws rather heavily on Howard and Lovecraft, and as such the general view is that magic = bad.  Now powerful and well traveled people (like an adventuring party) usualy learn that magic does not always = bad, but that it is always dangerous.To your average commoner a 7th level wizard has godlike powers which the commoner could never understand. this is often enough to keep most pesants in line.  There is also the fact that most servants would never even see their master, they would just bring him food and the occasional strange component.Of course any wizard who goes this route must be very careful, as there is always a line that once crossed brings the local villiagers to your tower with pitchforks and torches (or has some gold sliped to a traveling band of mercenaries).even if sucessful powerful wizards can be very hard to kill, and rarely stay burried for long.  So trying to get rid of your wizard master may only get you a knew lich master. or have your villiage devistated by a magical curse.</blockquote>