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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 8925208" data-attributes="member: 2209">Pretty Prince of Parties beat me to it.Wizard spells are a great tech secrets equivalent as they can be both stolen and researched independently. Also while high level spells are generally restricted to high level casters, scrolls in most editions of D&D can be created allowing lower level casters (or even non-casters with 3e use magic device skill) to deploy them.Summoning Mythos type entities are a big nuclear bomb equivalent, summon them they do lots of uncontrolled damage on a massive scale.In <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/237360/Midgard-Worldbook-for-5th-Edition-and-PFRPG?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Midgard</a> the competing mages of high magic civilizations unleashed the mythos summoning weapons leading to empire devastation resulting in <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/110267/Midgard-Players-Guide-to-the-Wasted-West?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">the Wasted West</a> that could have continued to be close to a world ending apocalypse that was only stopped by huge sacrifices to enact mythic time stop spells that slowed down the unleashed entities who are still there warping their immediate areas' realities.Having super power empires trying to recreate the Necronomicon and sabotaging and stealing each others' research efforts is a good setup.Fiend and undead apocalypse from wizard spell stuff would work similarly.</blockquote>