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Message: <blockquote data-quote="boredgremlin" data-source="post: 2942168" data-attributes="member: 31646">you dont need to change a single thing in the RAW to have a non-magitech world. what you need to do is enforce all of RAW. Including the NPC pay charts in the DMG. Once you actually enforce a normal D&D economy it becomes apparent why omnipresent magic is not a likelyhood.    Take government public works magic projects for instance....A large city has between 12,000 and 25,000 people. The wages for NPC's run between 2gp per month for a laborer to 8gp a week for a sage... the majority of npc's will be laborers and lower paid jobs just like in the real world, but lets ignore that and just take an average of 5 gp per week per person or 20gp per month, and 140 gp per year. Assuming a maximum population of 25,000 people each making average money thats a total GDP of 350,000gp per year.    It also says under taxes and tithes that a truly oppressive government took up to 1/5 of that in taxes. For a total of 70,000gp per year for the governments total budget.  Now its only fair to assume that around half of that gets dumped on paying civil servants and soldiers. leaving the city government with 35,000 per year. Enough to buy 17 +1 weapons for fighting magical enemies, raising dead important people, fighting deseases and hiring the all important random adventuring party for a grossly inflated price compared to what everyone else in the world makes of course.  And this assumes that the government wants to spend every copper it brings in each and every year.   Take for instance the 150 gp permanent street lights.... that means for an entire years excess money (if thier administrators are immensely better then ours in real life of course, lol) the government could buy 200 street lights per year. With a 30ft light radius that would illuminate around 6000 sq ft... or a little over a mile, of completely open terrain where the lights can be used to best advantage without being obstructed.    Of course you cant pack 25,000 people into 6,000 square feet can you? Assuming a mere 10sq ft per person (slightly higher then New york city, where everyone built up instead of out) that means you would need to illuminate 250,000 square ft. Thus a completely averaged income city with an oppressive tax rate could illuminate its whole city in only 12 years, if it spent every spare dime on light, no lights were ever damaged or stolen, no emergencies involving unforseen expenses arose in over a decade, no city politician got it into his head to appropriate extra funds for a pet project or his own pocket, and none of the cities nobles balked over thier tax dollars being spent so peasents could have magical lights. That sounds amazingly likely doesnt it?    And this complete interpretation of the RAW is exactly why i dont use magitech worlds, or magical wallmarts. Its only believable and likely if you ignore the parts of the rules that make it unlikely, like a haflway believable economy. And thats a part of the RAW that i refuse to abandon, lest my games devolve into Final Fantasy clones.</blockquote>

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