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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BiggusGeekus@Work" data-source="post: 925653" data-attributes="member: 7828">I think a high-magic game wouldn't have the same "feel" as technology.  The gizmos would be more effective and more localized.  So you wouldn't have several machines dredging a river, you'd have one flying guy with a wand.  You wouldn't have a magical machine to reprint books, you'd have a bookcase that turned blank books into exact copies.I think the progress of science would be slowed down dramatically in the presence of magic.* Sages attempting to determine how electricity is conducted would have to take steps to rule out magic as an option.  There would be a lot of bad science performed as people accepted the "easy" explanation of magic for how things work.* Diviners would only confuse things.  A spell that returned the answer "a star is a large sphere of flaming gas far away", might lead the wizard to think that a star was a mile in diameter and up to 3 thousand miles away, when the truth is much more vast.* low technology would seem to be a dead end.  Why use a cannon, when a wand of fireballs would be more accurate, more devestating, easier to transport, not prone to explosions, and you don't even have to worry about the gunpowder getting too wet or too unstable.* mythic beats would detract from the study of natural law.  It took us millenia to understand that a bird's low weight was a very important part in how they fly.  How would a griffon, unicorn, or dragon throw off those studies?Of course, progress would march on.  But -- in my opinion -- it would march slower.</blockquote>

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