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<blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 779596" data-attributes="member: 3649">Faerun is a 'high magic' world, but that doesn't nessesarily mean 'common magic'. Just your example above: Keen takes a 10th level caster AND someone who has Create Magic Arms and Armor. I don't think the combination is as common as some people assume. A wizard only gets x number of feats and I think it's likely that most wizards place those in metamagic feats, Brew Potion and Craft Wonderous or Craft Wand. A few runs with the random city generator set on Metropolis (Silverymoon has @37,000 people in it) show about 4-5 wizards over 8th. Most Realms cities along the Sword Coast can have populations in the 100,000 range, though, so let's be generous and make that 25 wizards 8th and over, to account for the high magic level and that many of these cities is going to have some kind of wizard school. You can adjust that 25 figure in a lot of ways. Let's say that a fifth of those are in government positions and thus too busy. Of the 20, a third of them don't have that feat. Of that 14, 2 are charatans that'll take your cash and teleport off somewhere, or they're evil, etc. Four are too high level to bother with the likes of making a sword. Of the 8, then, there might be any number of reasons that they simply don't have the time or the inclination.They might have two or three people already lined up for enchantments. They might be sick. You never know. Just don't let the adventueres assume that they can go into a city and treat it like Wal-Mart. Speed and convenience are not the name of the game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WayneLigon, post: 779596, member: 3649"] Faerun is a 'high magic' world, but that doesn't nessesarily mean 'common magic'. Just your example above: Keen takes a 10th level caster AND someone who has Create Magic Arms and Armor. I don't think the combination is as common as some people assume. A wizard only gets x number of feats and I think it's likely that most wizards place those in metamagic feats, Brew Potion and Craft Wonderous or Craft Wand. A few runs with the random city generator set on Metropolis (Silverymoon has @37,000 people in it) show about 4-5 wizards over 8th. Most Realms cities along the Sword Coast can have populations in the 100,000 range, though, so let's be generous and make that 25 wizards 8th and over, to account for the high magic level and that many of these cities is going to have some kind of wizard school. You can adjust that 25 figure in a lot of ways. Let's say that a fifth of those are in government positions and thus too busy. Of the 20, a third of them don't have that feat. Of that 14, 2 are charatans that'll take your cash and teleport off somewhere, or they're evil, etc. Four are too high level to bother with the likes of making a sword. Of the 8, then, there might be any number of reasons that they simply don't have the time or the inclination. They might have two or three people already lined up for enchantments. They might be sick. You never know. Just don't let the adventueres assume that they can go into a city and treat it like Wal-Mart. Speed and convenience are not the name of the game. [/QUOTE]

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