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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SHARK" data-source="post: 72909" data-attributes="member: 1131">I am the Supreme Mind!Greetings!Thanks Nightfall! You can feel free to e-mail me anytime. I'm currently working on a submission to Necromancer Games. Hopefully, you may see some of my ideas in broad daylight, so to speak!<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> I'd be honored to discuss your ideas about whatever Nightfall. Thanks very much!<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I sometimes think, well, with *Dispel Magic* in existence, why wouldn't someone develop spells or materials to make *Dispel Magic* ineffective, especially with large structures and so on? I mean, in my example, there is strange metals that have been worked into the foundations that provide it with immunity to *Dispel Magic* so that no wizard, regardless of level, can simply hit the flying crystal castle with a *Dispel Magic* and watch the castle fall from the sky. I don't think so. Having said that, though, the castle can be damaged by fireballs, Lightning Bolts, and mundane things like battering rams or Iron Golems for example. It's a major thing, you know, and a simple spell just isn't going to effect it. Still, I like the ideas of magic having some broad effects upon society. Just think what permanent light globes would do to the whole society. True, let's say that the kingdom couldn't afford to put them everywhere, in every little village and so on. But let's assume that the kingdom would see to it that major sections of every large city has plenty of light globes.Imagine then that in these cities, you could have extended work hours, and extended night life. You could have additional work completed that doesn't depend on the hours of daylight. The economy in these cities would be significantly different from what is typically portrayed. Imagine the societal impact of permanently illuminated cities throughout the kingdom. That alone would have a significant effect on society.Now imagine the potential impact on attitudes of work, family expectations, and social life. Imagine the impact on businesses, and so on. The possibilities are limitless.Ask yourself what effects might there be if a group of people got together, let's say a group of wizards, a few bards, and a few clerics to start with. Let's say they got together, and formed a "Guild of Enlightened Knowledge." This guild would build a complex in every major city.Within these complexes, there would be artists who work on animated tapestries that show whatever situation happening. These artists are given descriptions and information based on knowledge gained in the area by spies and bards, wizards, and so on. The knowledge doesn't really matter what it's on, as long as it is interesting and important. Imagine these tapestries being made with full sound effects and so on. Then imagine whenever something happens, like a sex scandal in the the northern city of A. The news of such, along with an artistic animated tapestry, can be teleported to a city in the far south by the end of the day. By the next morning, you have bards telling stories and spreading news about this scandal, and distributing or selling!--these animated tapestries that further detail the news item.The actual mechanics of how different information transmission is done can vary--but imagine a group of people getting together to found this guild, and now imagine the effects this would have on the society. Imagine how the effects of knowledge being transferred, often in a more interesting way than just by word of mouth many months later, could have on society.The military of course, could also make use of magic in this way to transmit special teams of officers with detailed animated tapestries to different headquarters throughout the kingdom, bringing urgent news faster, or simply bringing detailed reports in more interesting ways, and in a more timely fashion. You would still have word of mouth, or verbal reports, as well as written reports, but it would be faster, and with an added visual/audio component. Then imagine the king selling royal licenses to several guild groups like this, all competing to get the information out faster, better, and more accurate, than each other.Semper Fidelis,SHARK</blockquote>

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