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Message: <blockquote data-quote="robertliguori" data-source="post: 4037499" data-attributes="member: 47776"><p>This has another good side benefit; it encourages people in leadership positions to be good leaders, rather than qualifying by dint of being able to survive the most recent scry-and-die attempt of itinerant adventurers.  It also emphasizes that if you want to tear open the fabric of reality, shrug off mortal wounds, strike four deadly blows with a greatsword in six seconds, and so forth, you need to devote your life to doing so, and that you might not be able to afford to take the time to play politics in the court, see to your spouse, raise your heir as he should be raised, perform civic works and formal ceremonies and keep up with your career as a duskblade.  It gives you a reason for high-level wizards to be in towers performing research, instead of taking over kingdoms and turning them into rare spell component production facilities.</p></blockquote><p></p>