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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Reynard" data-source="post: 3893049" data-attributes="member: 467">More to the point, for this particular thought experiemnt, opening up multiple planes or dimensions undermines the basic conceit of a natural universe where magic happens to be a component.Another possibility is to give them a long enough lifespan that even a slowly dwindling population over the course of a million or three years will  not mean they are extinct by the time civilization takes hold.  By simple virtue of thousands of years between generations, dragons can be a failing species on its way out but still exist here and there -- making them all the more rare and keeping them a horrifying throwback to an era before "man" walked on two legs.I figure that ultimately the division between "divine" and "arcane" magic would be removed entirely.  Certainly religions would exist, and certain religions would make magic a central power, and even call it "divine", but in the end it would all be tapping the same source.  Perhaps some cultures would call those people with more innate, less academic magical talents "divine" and they would be the priestly caste; other cultures might do the opposite.  In the end, if the idea ever got that far, I would probably rewrite the magic system in such a way that there'd be three basic classes -- a warlock type class, a sorcerer type class and a wizard type class, at least from the perspective of how they access and use magic -- and spell lists would be used to create the appropriate flavor.  I.E. a traditional D&D cleric would likely be a sorcerer-type with a spell list that included a lot of the traditional cleric spells.</blockquote>

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