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<blockquote data-quote="Flamestrike" data-source="post: 8557270" data-attributes="member: 6788736">There are even less Doctors, Pilots etc combined in the Real world, yet we get healed, travel overseas etc all the time.Faerun has literally entire nations full of spellcasters (Halruaa, Thay etc). Greyhawk as well. Both settings are replete with ancient cultures annhilating themselves with potent magic (Cormanthor, Netheril, Suel Empire etc). Many of those cultres had (or have) literal flying cities, aircraft, magical equivalent nukes etc.According to the Forgotten realms campaign setting, around 1 person in every hundred has Sorcerer/ Wizard abilities (i.e. levels). In places like Thay, and Halruaa and Cormanthor that number is 10 times higher.You're imagining some kind of 'Spellcasters are rare/ burn the witch' setting, but none of the conventional DnD settings are presented like this. Even a village of 100 or so has a wizard or sorcerer or two, a druid and a few clerics. Every town of 1000 or so has an archmage, and several lower level spellcasters, and cities of 10,000 or more have literally several archmages, dozens of powerful clerics to several Gods (and their clerical followers), druids, bards and you name it.Seriously, find me a published village or town in any official setting, and there will be several spellcasters in it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Flamestrike, post: 8557270, member: 6788736"] There are even [I]less [/I]Doctors, Pilots etc [I]combined [/I]in the Real world, yet we get healed, travel overseas etc all the time. Faerun has literally entire nations full of spellcasters (Halruaa, Thay etc). Greyhawk as well. Both settings are replete with ancient cultures annhilating themselves with potent magic (Cormanthor, Netheril, Suel Empire etc). Many of those cultres had (or have) literal flying cities, aircraft, magical equivalent nukes etc. According to the Forgotten realms campaign setting, around 1 person in every hundred has Sorcerer/ Wizard abilities (i.e. levels). In places like Thay, and Halruaa and Cormanthor that number is 10 times higher. You're imagining some kind of 'Spellcasters are rare/ burn the witch' setting, but none of the conventional DnD settings are presented like this. Even a village of 100 or so has a wizard or sorcerer or two, a druid and a few clerics. Every town of 1000 or so has an archmage, and several lower level spellcasters, and cities of 10,000 or more have literally several archmages, dozens of powerful clerics to several Gods (and their clerical followers), druids, bards and you name it. Seriously, find me a published village or town in any official setting, and there will be several spellcasters in it. [/QUOTE]

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