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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 682603" data-attributes="member: 158">Hi, Alcamtar!I love the exercise, but your example could bear some refinement. This is because the entire supposition is based on the existance of Detect Evil / Good / Law / Chaos spells, knowing the difference between good and evil. The only thing such a spell will tell is the presence or absence of such. Since there is no longer any such spell as Know Alignment, such spells can be easily defeated by nondetection and similar spells, because such an individual would register much as a neutral being would.Now, I can certainly see a lawful society that tries to ensure that its elected officials were lawful by using such spells - by elect a chaotic person to a government office, when they don't care for the government!Another supposition: Teleportation and dimensional magics. I can see where this would cause some shifting in transportation, but frankly I can't see it shifting the whole populace into mass transit overnight. There would likely be the equivalent of Federal Express, where a wizard could for an exhorbitant fee transport your package far away - but again, limited by cost per pound, much the same way that the Pony Express used rice paper for their messages for the riders to carry.Also, dark streets would never be, because streets can be illuminated with no expenditure of power. Instead, you hire a town guard to open the shutters on the continual flame posts at night, and close them during the day for aesthetic reasons.I can see the clergy withholding mass healing, and disease cures, because of expenditures of power and the prestige such power brings; but I could also see a populace that never goes hungry, or never has a massive fatal disease outbreak, because the key carriers are identified and cured quickly. The druids can help the crops when rain is scarce, wizards can redirect river flows in public works projects, and in truly desparate times clerics can purify food and drink, and create food or water so the mass populace does not starve to death.So I can see the clear delineation between classes, but it would also be coupled with many modern concepts, and indeed allow the size if cities grow much larger than medieval equivalents.</blockquote>

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