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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fanaelialae" data-source="post: 8542543" data-attributes="member: 53980">I wasn't just referring to D&D magic. Even limiting it to D&D, wild magic exists, and we can certainly imagine a setting where all magic is wild. Or a setting like Dark Sun where magic literally destroyed the world, and the few remaining super-powerful mages hoard their power.To use a real world example, literacy was a means of betterment in ye days of olde, so why didn't every peasant learn to read and write?There's a matter of capacity and opportunity. Sorcery requires natural talent, divine magic requires strong faith, and wizardry requires intelligence and study. Not everyone necessarily has both capacity and opportunity. If only 1 in a million people have the gift for harnessing magic, then mages are extremely rare. Maybe someone even tries a breeding program (or such) but all they discover is that the gift is truly random. What then?Like I said before, what you say makes sense for certain settings (particularly those with egalitarian themes). I strongly disagree that it is applicable to all settings (even if we are to limit ourselves to just D&D).</blockquote>