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Message: <blockquote data-quote="triqui" data-source="post: 5528960" data-attributes="member: 57948">Except it require to infiltrate the pirates INTO the warehouse (Which is 1000000000% harder to do than assaulting a ship.), becouse of the short range of the spell, AND it's psionic, which not all the campaigns use, and is not related to the topic of the thread: "in a world where MAGIC exists...". Sure, if a Star Trekk use some weird quasar device to steal the cargo while teleported, it might be a problem. Yet it's irrelevant to the topic, which do not include Star Trekk. Or psionics <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=";)" />Plus, unless you have an elephant with psion powers, the amount of gold you can steal is pretty low: the psion's maximum load. That's pretty insingificant for a 150 ton cargo <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=";)" /> Which is irrelevant. Fact is nobody ever use your "1/525million" suggestion.  In NONE of the campaign settings (except, maybe, Eberron), from Greyhawk to Dark Sun.If you don't find yourself the difference between discovering Calculus or the Relativity and counting up that the cost of two spells is lower than the cost of 1 single heavy expedition, then there's little I can do to help you <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=";)" />. Traders have been making calculations like those (ie: which route is more expensive, adding the cost of all factors) since ancient EgyptTell that to the spanish galleons. And even with low level piracy (ie: somalian pirates) or NO piracy at all, 2 circles of Teleport are faster, cheaper, more effective and more efficient. Even without pirates, I can move 700+ tons of cargo in less than 1/100 of the time you need to do so with galleons, for same gold or less. So I could get 100 times as much gold in the same amount of timeLike always magic is involved, there is no point at all to do things in mundane ways. If, as the OP suggest, magic exist and is as common as electricity, it would be pervasive, and would render mundane means completely obsolet. Even with our current levels of technology, Pan Am or FedEx would have a *tough* day trying to compete with Teleportation Circles, y'know</blockquote>

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