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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tetsubo" data-source="post: 285284" data-attributes="member: 1250">I've been thinking about domestic heating in a world of magic. The most common forms of domestic heating in the real world for most of our history have been burning wood or dung. This is more than likely also true in most fantasy settings, even if magic is fairly common. But this doesn't fit my image of the Elven people and their forest kingdoms. They aren't going to have a large number of domestic livestock and they aren't going to be cutting down a lot of forests. So how do they produce heat?     I've been thinking of some form of Heat Stone magic. Related to Heat Metal but a lower temperature and a longer duration. Maybe a number of different versions at different power levels. A 0-level version that produces fairly low temperatures for under an hour. A longer, higher temperature version at 1st level for day to day heating of food. Maybe one at 3rd for heating dwellings and high temperature requirements (magic research, etc.). My only concern is how to balance out the spells. How long should each spell last and how much heat should each of them produce? Any thoughts?    Or is this an example of the amount of time I have on my hands...?</blockquote>