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<blockquote data-quote="Jürgen Hubert" data-source="post: 928473" data-attributes="member: 7177"><p><strong>Re: Re: High Magic - High technology, historical question</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>If <em>detect magic</em> causes a reaction, it's magic.</p><p></p><p>Seriously, for magic you need - at least initially - a person who can command otherworldly forces, like a wizard, sorcerer, cleric, druid... They command the forces (or ask them nicely, in the case of the latter two), and the effect happens.</p><p></p><p>For technological devices, you need only a single genius (or a particularily inventive fool) to build the first device. After that, you only need people who can follow instructions in assembling the device - hell, you can distribute the construction among as many people as you want, with no participant needing to know anything more than how to create his part.</p><p></p><p>And using the device usually needs little to no special knowledge at all - pretty much anyone can do it.</p><p></p><p>With magic, either it is the skilled people who do everything themselves, or who need to put magical energies into an item. Sure, these items often can be used without any further instructions as well - but <em>only</em> the magical experts can create them. This means that their supply is limited by the number of magic-users.</p><p></p><p>And whether common technological devices are feasible in your world depends on what percentage of the population does the farming - if most are peasants tolling in the fields, then there aren't as many people who can manufacture complicated goods.</p><p></p><p>Fortunately, in <strong>Urbis</strong>, the number of farmers is rather low - at least when compared to the hordes of migrant workers... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jürgen Hubert, post: 928473, member: 7177"] [b]Re: Re: High Magic - High technology, historical question[/b] If [i]detect magic[/i] causes a reaction, it's magic. Seriously, for magic you need - at least initially - a person who can command otherworldly forces, like a wizard, sorcerer, cleric, druid... They command the forces (or ask them nicely, in the case of the latter two), and the effect happens. For technological devices, you need only a single genius (or a particularily inventive fool) to build the first device. After that, you only need people who can follow instructions in assembling the device - hell, you can distribute the construction among as many people as you want, with no participant needing to know anything more than how to create his part. And using the device usually needs little to no special knowledge at all - pretty much anyone can do it. With magic, either it is the skilled people who do everything themselves, or who need to put magical energies into an item. Sure, these items often can be used without any further instructions as well - but [i]only[/i] the magical experts can create them. This means that their supply is limited by the number of magic-users. And whether common technological devices are feasible in your world depends on what percentage of the population does the farming - if most are peasants tolling in the fields, then there aren't as many people who can manufacture complicated goods. Fortunately, in [b]Urbis[/b], the number of farmers is rather low - at least when compared to the hordes of migrant workers... ;) [/QUOTE]
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