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<blockquote data-quote="Jimmy Dick" data-source="post: 8460288" data-attributes="member: 6994416"><p>I don't care what world you build, one absolute law that will not change is that population depends on food. That is not going to differ in any world. Until a civilization is large enough to have people for both food production and specialists for anything else, it will not progress very far. Even then, it will be limited by food supplies. Now, in a fantasy world, the large monsters could become food supplies themselves, but it is pretty likely they would be far rarer than most fantasy settings have them. But then it is fantasy and adventurers need to slay those things, so no big deal.</p><p></p><p>It's just really hard to set up a fantasy world that would be very realistic. Of course magic will change a lot of things. Personally, I think a lot of available magics would just take the place of technological advances. You could have low level wizards with a shop set up all over the place making magic lights, stoves, irons, waterproof roofing, self-driving nails, automatic cooking devices, automatic brooms for sweeping, etc. Hospitals would be set up for magic healing of all kinds. It would be pretty interesting to see self-driving wagons transporting freight.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jimmy Dick, post: 8460288, member: 6994416"] I don't care what world you build, one absolute law that will not change is that population depends on food. That is not going to differ in any world. Until a civilization is large enough to have people for both food production and specialists for anything else, it will not progress very far. Even then, it will be limited by food supplies. Now, in a fantasy world, the large monsters could become food supplies themselves, but it is pretty likely they would be far rarer than most fantasy settings have them. But then it is fantasy and adventurers need to slay those things, so no big deal. It's just really hard to set up a fantasy world that would be very realistic. Of course magic will change a lot of things. Personally, I think a lot of available magics would just take the place of technological advances. You could have low level wizards with a shop set up all over the place making magic lights, stoves, irons, waterproof roofing, self-driving nails, automatic cooking devices, automatic brooms for sweeping, etc. Hospitals would be set up for magic healing of all kinds. It would be pretty interesting to see self-driving wagons transporting freight. [/QUOTE]
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