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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SHARK" data-source="post: 73721" data-attributes="member: 1131">Hmmm...Greetings!Well, DMmaple, I certainly agree that there would probably be a sort of *magical armsrace* between various kingdoms. Indeed, I think there would be orders of wizards established by various kingdoms to be constantly working on offensive and defensive magics. Having said that, though, I'm not so sure that the reality of that particular dynamic would simply result in everyone being annihilated, and thus the default would be a minimal-magic, 14th century European model. I think while some areas may see intense magical combat, other areas, other kingdoms, may in fact be living quite peacefully and stable. True, there are spies and so on, but a order of wizards could conceivable research some new spells, and create some powerful new magic items, and it may be quite some time before any *magical rivals* would necessarily be aware of it.Then again, perhaps I'm presupposing some campaign suppositions of my own. In my campaign, there are enormous continents--vast land masses--where there are huge tracts of wilderness between many civilized kingdoms, in some areas. Thus, *specific* knowledge doesn't necessarily spread to *everywhere* Then, there is the whole possibility of sophisticated magical intelligence and espionage organizations serving the king to defend the kingdom from spies and so on. There are thus many different possibilities.One that leaps out at me is what if one particular kingdom gains temporal supremacy over the local area, and then proceeds to forge a broad magical superiority over the surrounding nations, kingdoms, and peoples. The surrounding realms may not really be in a position to "get into a magical arms-race."As someone else mentioned however, for realms that are equivalent, there are always measures and counter-measures. Still, the campaign environment would be very different if the magical environment that is presented in the DMG were really taken to its logical conclusions. As it remains, however, we often see campaigns that are at distinct magical dissonance, logically, with what is presented in the DMG.It's all quite facinating!<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=":)" />Semper Fidelis,SHARK</blockquote>

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