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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Humanophile" data-source="post: 368445" data-attributes="member: 1049">C'mon people.  I see a lot of things aimed at using high magic to replace technology, but the real boon to the common man will come from lower level spells.  Purify food and drink will make magical refrigeration pointless, and prestidigitation is the ultimate comfort spell (it's air conditioning, heating, labor saving, cleaning, lighting, and a great many other comforts of the modern age, all rolled into one simple little spell).  By the time you get to your flys and your teleports, you start getting up into rarer and rarer classes of people.  Not unimaginably so, but even a Fly spell would be the equivalent of a nice car, and where does that leave the junker people?Also, keep in mind magical protections.  Charm Person is a first level spell.  Scry is third.  Mind Blank is eighth, but there will still be a huge demand for capable items or casters.  And even lesser people will provide a very strong market for will save improving items.  Dispel Magic capabilities will be virtually required in this society, so even the people who couldn't naturally cast it would have to buy a wand with a few charges left.Magic mirrors or crystal balls with some kind of mutual scrying spell as videophones I could easily see for long-distance communication.  For anything more local, there's no need for magical cell phones when a familiar and a sheet of notepaper (or even a cantrip-created note that'll only last an hour) will do just as well.  And I could see raven familiars being *very* common in such a society.Travel would be mostly by foot over short distances, simply because flying carpets come with their own dangers when the skies are crowded and even high level sorcerers would be pressed to use a fly spell every time they wanted to head out for something.  Longer distance travel would be by flight for those who could afford it, but really long distance travel would be by a system of teleport gates, to keep travel time from lagging news and orders.</blockquote>

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