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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5392174" data-attributes="member: 22779">On a side note about flying mounts.Attacking a castle would be the least impact of having flying mounts.  It's the logistical effects that would be huge.  Imagine a medieval battlefield where you have lines of communication beyond line of sight.  Intelligence on enemy troop movements that are minutes instead of hours old.  The ability to move supplies or small groups of men massive distances in very short periods of time.Effectively, you've added small helicopters to the battlefield.  That's an enormous impact.  A good example of this is Steven Erikson's Malazan books where one empire manages to gain the services of giant flying insects.  It completely revolutionizes how they conduct wars.Outside of wartime, again the logistical effects of flying mounts would be huge.  Being able to transport small goods, but more importantly, information, at such a high rate would have very large impacts.Dropping big rocks on castles would be the least effect.-----------On the effect of wizards.  The thing Pawsplay, that you ignore is the fact that something like Continual Light/Flame is permanent.  It never ends.  Even if only one a day is created somewhere in the land, after a couple of centuries, you have thousands of these items floating around.  And they never end.  Most fantasy settings have a couple of thousand years of history.  Now you're talking millions of these items floating around.I think this is the one thing that a lot of people ignore in this discussion - time.  You don't have to mass produce this stuff to make it have an impact.  Small, very reasonable amounts will simply add up over time.  Sure, you need a 3rd level cleric to cast continual flame.  Ok.  But, in the entire land, how many 3rd level clerics are there?  Even if it's only half a percent of the population, you're still talking hundreds or even thousands of individuals.  And, of those hundreds or thousands, only one per day has to cast continual flame for the impact to be seen.  This is hardly unreasonable.</blockquote>

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