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<blockquote data-quote="NaturalZero" data-source="post: 7328306" data-attributes="member: 55705"><p>I'm generally fine with the system running without the magic christmas tree effect of 3e and 4e or the implied magic item market.</p><p></p><p>That said, I've always thought that magic in DnD was basically the physics of that fictional world. Wizards use specific formulas with exact components to produced repeatable, mathematically predictable empirical effects, and that's been the default flavor of the rules since conception. In that light, the logical conclusion I see for any DnD world is that someone, and probably a lot of someones, are going to become the magic Bill Gates, Steven Jobs, or Elon Musk of that world. Unlike the real world where visionaries and business men are bound by mundane science, in the world of DnD, scientist-wizards would be making huge leaps in tech and production in a short period of time and since the ostensible assumption of DnD is that humans still have real-world human nature, it would turn into a large scale industrial revolution pretty quickly. I can't really see too many wizards or clerics or bards or sorcerers wandering around a planet without anyone trying to turn magic into big business.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NaturalZero, post: 7328306, member: 55705"] I'm generally fine with the system running without the magic christmas tree effect of 3e and 4e or the implied magic item market. That said, I've always thought that magic in DnD was basically the physics of that fictional world. Wizards use specific formulas with exact components to produced repeatable, mathematically predictable empirical effects, and that's been the default flavor of the rules since conception. In that light, the logical conclusion I see for any DnD world is that someone, and probably a lot of someones, are going to become the magic Bill Gates, Steven Jobs, or Elon Musk of that world. Unlike the real world where visionaries and business men are bound by mundane science, in the world of DnD, scientist-wizards would be making huge leaps in tech and production in a short period of time and since the ostensible assumption of DnD is that humans still have real-world human nature, it would turn into a large scale industrial revolution pretty quickly. I can't really see too many wizards or clerics or bards or sorcerers wandering around a planet without anyone trying to turn magic into big business. [/QUOTE]
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