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<blockquote data-quote="Thunderfoot" data-source="post: 8554304" data-attributes="member: 34175">I remember a discussion from..well yeats ago in high school when we were discussing this and one of the guys came up with this take.&nbsp; Not sire why it took me this ling to remember.So, you live in a world where magic is real, technology would either follow the path that:&nbsp;a) magic is rare and special and therefore using it for 'mundane' things is 'beneath' a mage.&nbsp; This means that technology must advance because things like magic pens, or light sources would be reserved for the 'magic elite'.b) magic is prevalent and adventuring mages are the oddballs.&nbsp; Somewhere a father is telling a young mage, 'Why do you want to be an adventurer, I have a spot in a construction guild where you can cast wall of wood/stone all day. You're just gonna end up as dragon poop with all that adventurer talk!'&nbsp; So technology does NOT advance or it does so at a severely retarded rate due to the reliance on arcana over science.It's a solid argument and puts the normal campaign (those that kind of straddle it) somewhere between the two.&nbsp; So make of that what you will.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thunderfoot, post: 8554304, member: 34175"] I remember a discussion from..well yeats ago in high school when we were discussing this and one of the guys came up with this take. Not sire why it took me this ling to remember. So, you live in a world where magic is real, technology would either follow the path that: a) magic is rare and special and therefore using it for 'mundane' things is 'beneath' a mage. This means that technology [I]must[/I] advance because things like magic pens, or light sources would be reserved for the 'magic elite'. b) magic is prevalent and adventuring mages are the oddballs. Somewhere a father is telling a young mage, 'Why do you want to be an adventurer, I have a spot in a construction guild where you can cast wall of wood/stone all day. You're just gonna end up as dragon poop with all that adventurer talk!' So technology does NOT advance [I]or[/I] it does so at a severely retarded rate due to the reliance on arcana over science. It's a solid argument and puts the normal campaign (those that kind of straddle it) somewhere between the two. So make of that what you will. [/QUOTE]

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