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<blockquote data-quote="Mr Samedi" data-source="post: 3442990" data-attributes="member: 40353">Except the fact that Eberron still doesn't have that many mages that magic could have an impact with spells that aren't easily commercialised. It may have a higher percentage than most worlds, but not so much that every Tom, Dick and Harry has access to spells. Not to mention that most citizerns or common thugs cannot afford the prices for a lot of spells. Even when someone can cats it, Magic is expected enough that there are countermeasures. A rogue using invisibility will be countered by a member of the watch with see invisibility.You mean wands of magic missle? Covered.,You mean airships? Covered.&nbsp;A sufficeintly wealthy noble could probably afford to get something like that. You act as if Eberron, or any campaign setting has a wizard down every street corner, constantly screwing things up with their magic. Other campign settings deal with it with wizards of suffiecient skill to even attempt most of the equivalents of our world beign isolationist and sitting in big towers trying to take over the world.&nbsp;There are still only so many spellcasters in Eberron as that the only way they make themselves known is through big civic undertakings. Sure, a magewright probably could churn out the magic equivalent of an ipod if he wanted to, but would it be as profitable as having the city pay him to light up the streets with everburning torches?Heck, if you really want magic equivalents of modern day stuff, use the items from Dragon 327's Bazaar of the Bizzare, featuring magic PDAs (slate folios), video phones (mirrors of communication) and Memory crystals (cameras).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mr Samedi, post: 3442990, member: 40353"] Except the fact that Eberron still doesn't have that many mages that magic could have an impact with spells that aren't easily commercialised. It may have a higher percentage than most worlds, but not so much that every Tom, Dick and Harry has access to spells. Not to mention that most citizerns or common thugs cannot afford the prices for a lot of spells. Even when someone can cats it, Magic is expected enough that there are countermeasures. A rogue using invisibility will be countered by a member of the watch with see invisibility. You mean wands of magic missle? Covered. , You mean airships? Covered. A sufficeintly wealthy noble could probably afford to get something like that. You act as if Eberron, or any campaign setting has a wizard down every street corner, constantly screwing things up with their magic. Other campign settings deal with it with wizards of suffiecient skill to even attempt most of the equivalents of our world beign isolationist and sitting in big towers trying to take over the world. There are still only so many spellcasters in Eberron as that the only way they make themselves known is through big civic undertakings. Sure, a magewright probably could churn out the magic equivalent of an ipod if he wanted to, but would it be as profitable as having the city pay him to light up the streets with everburning torches? Heck, if you really want magic equivalents of modern day stuff, use the items from Dragon 327's Bazaar of the Bizzare, featuring magic PDAs (slate folios), video phones (mirrors of communication) and Memory crystals (cameras). [/QUOTE]

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