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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Storm Raven" data-source="post: 2928201" data-attributes="member: 307">The ability to provide such a service at all is a big deal though. Many services can be provided by magic that would otherwise be virtually impossible for a middle-ages tech world to produce, and at a fairly reasonable price for most of them.Actually, it isn't simpler, because it is far less effective. A single spellcaster can increase your crop yields by a tremendous amount, whereas he cannot, on his own, produce enough food to make a difference. The combination of magic and labor is more powerful than magic alone.I would postulate that in any world in which magic was real, those who can use this power would end up in positions of authority in short order. In the real world, those who could use military force - usually meaning the ability to afford lots of armor, weapons, and horses, as well as the leisure time to train at arms - ended up ruling most of the world in the pre-gunpowder era. Conversely, in a magical world, where power is held by those who are good at casting spells, they would likely dominate the political landscape.At the very least, those in power would be able to command the loyalty of those who wield such power - I suspect, for example, that nationalism would probably be a bigger deal than is was in our own middle-ages, specifically to appeal to the patriotic spirit of the spellcasters (and higher level members of other classes) in the various realms.You can only posit a world in which magic isn't exploited if you ignore human nature, history, and politics in favor of very dubious assumptions.Unlikely, because it would only require a single defector to render such a system void. Such a shaky political structure might arise, but it would likely collapse before any appreciable length of time elapsed.Possibly. But then again, not everyone with the skills to be a big game hunter becomes one. Many people would rather live their lives in relative safety, making labor saving devices as opposed to hunting down things that have a very real chance of killing them.</blockquote>

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