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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Belgarath" data-source="post: 4023354" data-attributes="member: 3418">There is something that you seem to have forgotten though. This is not an entirely accurate historical world. There is one thing that they have that we didnt - working magic.Take your example of not knowing as much about raising cattle. I think this isnt right. What if some retired ranger or druid decided he was going to take up farming. How much knowledge about it would he be able to aquire if he can actually speak with animals himself. He would even be able to teach some of it to someone who cant cast the spell. This is a world that has not developed our level of technology. That does not mean to say it is ignorant or backwards. It simply has another resource that we didnt. A cleric of a nature god or druid would have a lot of information on how to raise crops from his diety.Granted, if you look at the class breakdown in the DMG, spell casters are pretty rare. That does not mean that would they have learned cannot be passed down to be used by "mundane" people. Im not talking about everyone using spells, im talking about it being common knowledge that if you want a good crop you need to rotate your fields.Even some of the magic user stuff would be viable. Think of the things a mage would have to know about physics, engineering and other "sciences" to be able to perform his magic or at least can learn if he set his mind to it.</blockquote>