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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 1370890" data-attributes="member: 3649">For the most part, I like to think that the common people of a D&D world are almost totally ignorant about magic; they think it can do things it can't (wizards can raise the dead), and think it can't do things that are in fact easy for it (Feh, son, not even Grumble the Grey can tell what the weather tomorrow will be.).  So, they probably don't have many laws set up to deal with magic, or mages. Every case involving them might be special. Or, the wizards handle their own affairs, like the Church did for so long; like as not, cleric and paladins are judged only by other priests.  For Ressurrection and the like: I like the idea of a counter, something that makes it impossible to ressurect someone. It might be a spell. It might be a simple act (such as separating the head from the body, which would 'sever' the magical connection between body and soul). It might be a complex act (body must tbe burned to ashes, which must then be mixed with holy or unholy water). It might be a device. (I loved the Morganti weapons from Brust's Jhereg books; weapons that killed the soul, so no ressurection was possible). I can see general laws coming into effect once the authorities become aware of them. Scrying is likely the first thing to be banned. In a number of books I've read, killing someone with magic is a much worse crime than killing them with a sword, especially as far as mages are concerned (usually, the idea is that it might turn people against the mages).</blockquote>

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