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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scorch" data-source="post: 390024" data-attributes="member: 1502">Infrastructure for the Spell Pool SystemWizards and civic duty have been rattling around in my brain since I took my character into T&B's Mage of the Arcane Order in Wizardru's Story Hour.  Mostly I see them as a bunch of arguing misanthropes who resemble the wizards of Vance's "Rhialto the Marvellous".  Now that my character is approaching Epic levels I need to think about how a wizard of his level would fit in the grand scheme of National/Wizardly politics.One thing that has sprung up in my mind is the infrastructure needed for the National Spell Pool.  What kind of artifact is powering it?  Is there a gigantic spell stone buried deep underground or on a demiplane somewhere guarded by all manners of traps and creatures?  To absorb and cast spell levels in the numbers being thrown around here, how much would such an item cost?  How long would it take to construct?  I assume that it would have to be a very wealthy nation that could afford to construct and maintain such a network.  Who would be the System Admins of such a system?  A bound diety/demon?  A shadowy cabal of epic level wizards and sorcerers?  What checks and balances would be in place for them to not turn around and tell the government to go to hell?Scorch</blockquote>