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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Misanthrope Prime" data-source="post: 9763600" data-attributes="member: 6776166">Because it's cheaper?I was a teenager during the heyday of World of Warcraft, so that inspired my DMing style more so than others who were inspired more by fantasy literature or actual plays. WoW and many other contemporary MMOs feature casual teleportation among many other "high fantasy" concessions for ease of gameplay, because players don't want to manually walk their asses from the equator to the north pole (When WoW first launched, you used to have to take boats or zeppelins to other continents that ran on a schedule, forcing you to wait with your fellow players, but over time they've been replaced by self-serve teleporters). I assume that a high level campaign, like a max level WoW character, is going to be physically crossing large amounts of space, which means they are going to be blowing material components and spell slots on a shitload of teleportations. At level 20 I can imagine needing to teleport 10 times a day and only having 4 spell slots with which to cast it.Extra spell slots and an already established network of teleportation circles, off the top of my head. If I'm an adventurer I wanna save my spell slots for naughty word like simulacrum or prismatic wall, especially when I can just pay someone to teleport me. EDIT: I also realize this is something like asking "why would an aeronautics engineer fly commercial?" Not everyone who knows how to build planes wants to build a plane and be responsible for everything that could happen, they'd rather offload the work and responsibility to someone else.I like cooking for my friends. I'm happy to make enough hamburgers for four people. But if I'm having a massive party and 50 people are showing up, I'm not going to cook them all hamburgers even though I am perfectly capable of making hundreds of hamburgers, I have better things to do with my time and energy than do that. Luckily I live under capitalism, so I can just pay a professional hamburger maker to make them and cater the party. And that's a core conceit of Eberron; capitalism has infected magic and given us the magewright, a professional NPC spellcaster who can convert money into magic.</blockquote>

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