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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8419081" data-attributes="member: 6704184">Mostly because 90% of humans didn’t know magic was real. Or rather, didn’t know how magic worked or what it could do. There are some setting things involved there, but basically the setting assumes that magic was very rarely known between about 15,000 years ago and sometime in the 90’s-2030’s era.   So, maybe the Roman emperors contributed to that via monopoly and strictly policing magic to only very subtle use, or maybe not and history has been scrubbed repeatedly of direct and accurate reference to magic, leaving only misleading scraps.   Again the big assumption is that magic is real, there are other worlds, and the modern era is the first time in recorded history that it becomes common knowledge. We can posit that there were cultures where magic was less mysterious, like perhaps pre-Christian Ireland (maybe the loss of most of thier magical knowledge is why they went from “never conquered even by the romans” to “conquered by England”.   I would also say that most people need to basically be guided by a magic user through thier first use of magic, in order to start learning how to use it. See belowMore or less. It’s a skill. It has to be…directly shown to you, though. If you live in a place where it’s ubiquitous, you’ll pass that initial hurdle without any effort on anyone’s part, but if not, you need help. Not very, and not really in a D&D sense. Ie there aren’t really people who don’t have to practice and study to be powerful. There are dangerous shortcuts to power, though. Mostly nothing, but sometimes there are consequences even if you succeed if the working is big enough. No one ever died from casting fireball wrong, though. Agreed. I agree that innovation would just include magic. Exactly this, yeah. People in the future heat their bath water magically when the water heater fails. Not everyone, but it’s common. Trades eventually include magic principles and techniques.</blockquote>

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