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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1555250" data-attributes="member: 812">Actually, if it were treated as technology for the society as a whole, that'd be okay, too. It's just that D&D has this magic that seems ubiquitous and straightforward and predictable, but doesn't have much effect on society as a whole. You've got medieval towns and stuff, but guys who can literally cure disease over and over again every day. Something's not very logical with that picture.It's the "Star Trek Transporter Issue" (which you've probably never heard of because I made it up). Essentially it means technologies that are developed in stories for some specific purpose, without any thought being put into their impact on society. In Star Trek they have "transporters" which basically destroy matter at one point in space and create matter at another.So they can synthesize matter. At arbitrary points in space. At orbital distances. In synchronicity with the movement of planetary bodies (it would kind of suck if Kirk appeared on the surface of Vulcan, only not moving at the exact same speed and direction as that surface). And they can destroy matter, again at arbitrary points in space, etc, etc. I don't think I need to point out how pretty much everything else in Federation Space falls apart at this point.Obviously Star Trek's not meant to be an exploration of how matter synthesis might affect society, and that's okay, and people aren't dumb because they like Star Trek. But the basic problem DOES exist, and I'm all for solving basic problems if possible.In D&D the fact is that most people WANT to play in a world that resembles the world described in fairy tales, Arthurian legend, fantasy literature, and that's not a world that makes a whole lot of sense. And that's okay.But when I'm developing a campaign setting, I just have trouble getting around stuff like that. I like my worlds to make a little bit of sense. Even if I've got dinosaurs and ironclad airships and red guys and flintlock pistols, I want some versimilitude. So I like consider how magic would affect things and what sort of world would emerge where magic behaved in a certain way.Brother MacClaren posts a sentence, I ramble on for six paragraphs. It's how I am. <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    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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