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<blockquote data-quote="Harold Mayo" data-source="post: 710861" data-attributes="member: 10361">Well, unless it happens to be the somatic component for a stinking cloud spell...<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Everyone has good ideas but, ultimately, it depends on the LEVEL of magic in the campaign world.&nbsp; Brust's novels are a good example of a HIGH magic world (resurrection is a common thing, most people seem to have psionic ability of some degree, the Imperial Orb pretty much lets EVERYONE be a sorceror...).&nbsp; Something like Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series (though i'm loathe to make mention of it) shows how rather limited magic might be used in a society (the Aes Sedai are an elite who pretty much have their own agenda(s) and might have political power but have no desire to be the rulers of the land themselves...or that's how I remember it, it might have changed in the 70 books in the series since that time).&nbsp; Back to the other end of the spectrum is Robert Heinlein's book...I think it was Magic, Inc.??? (someone help me on that title)...where magic had largely replaced technology.&nbsp; If anything, it was even more prevalent than in Brust's books.I can't, personally, stomach very much magic.&nbsp; I like it to be a relatively rare thing.&nbsp; In my world, most people have seen someone working magic or seen the results of a spell but those who can use magic are really not all that common.&nbsp; Think of something along the lines of a judge in our own world...everyone knows that they exist and we hear about their rulings and stuff but how many of us actually see a judge in public, know one, or are ever in a courtroom?&nbsp; If we are an attorney or a criminal (is there really a difference?) or a LEO, then it is part of our job to deal with judges but the vast majority of the public will never see one or feel (directly) the effects of a ruling.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Harold Mayo, post: 710861, member: 10361"] Well, unless it happens to be the somatic component for a stinking cloud spell...:D Everyone has good ideas but, ultimately, it depends on the LEVEL of magic in the campaign world. Brust's novels are a good example of a HIGH magic world (resurrection is a common thing, most people seem to have psionic ability of some degree, the Imperial Orb pretty much lets EVERYONE be a sorceror...). Something like Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series (though i'm loathe to make mention of it) shows how rather limited magic might be used in a society (the Aes Sedai are an elite who pretty much have their own agenda(s) and might have political power but have no desire to be the rulers of the land themselves...or that's how I remember it, it might have changed in the 70 books in the series since that time). Back to the other end of the spectrum is Robert Heinlein's book...I think it was Magic, Inc.??? (someone help me on that title)...where magic had largely replaced technology. If anything, it was even more prevalent than in Brust's books. I can't, personally, stomach very much magic. I like it to be a relatively rare thing. In my world, most people have seen someone working magic or seen the results of a spell but those who can use magic are really not all that common. Think of something along the lines of a judge in our own world...everyone knows that they exist and we hear about their rulings and stuff but how many of us actually see a judge in public, know one, or are ever in a courtroom? If we are an attorney or a criminal (is there really a difference?) or a LEO, then it is part of our job to deal with judges but the vast majority of the public will never see one or feel (directly) the effects of a ruling. [/QUOTE]

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