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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greatwyrm" data-source="post: 1383265" data-attributes="member: 479">Well, there's a certain amount of suspension of disbelief when you play D&D in the first place.  If you can already handle people disintegrating their enemies, travelling to alternate planes of existance, and invisible servants that do your laundry, I don't see why "it's fantasy" doesn't hold water.That aside, if you had a world of magic I think it's logical that you'd spend most of your time refining magical research than working on non-technological solutions.  If you look at our own world, more energy is typically spent on refining things we already have than creating new stuff.  Just look at how many modifications have been made to the internal combustion engine in the last hundered years compared to how many power sources have been created that use some other process.Even with that, maybe gunpowder was already discovered and abandoned?  Why invest so much time in a material that's dangerous to produce, useless if wet, and hazardous to store when you can take a couple of days to make a safe and easy wand of fireballs?  Sure, not everybody can use it, but there seem to be enough people to make that a good alternative.</blockquote>