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<blockquote data-quote="FreeTheSlaves" data-source="post: 1710507" data-attributes="member: 9952">In regard to the magic as technology, the really big issue is distribution of wealth and freedom of opportunity.When I did my history/politics studies 5 years ago, I was quoted some UN statistics that a majority of people have not touched a telephone, let alone a computer.We live in an enlightened age, with solutions to most ailments and some 1/3 of the worlds population is in serious poverty. Something like a billion people don't have clean water. Ok I need to check the UN website for exactness but you get the point.In a default D&amp;D world the wealth is highly concentrated (high level characters) and society infrastructure is quite weak. There is no formal social security, healthcare or education provided out of taxes. Taxes are not based on needs of the government, instead they are based on how much can we take without ruining future trade. Governments are decentralized feudal fiefdoms dependant on the lords character. Corruption occurs at all levels of administration as there are no independant checks on powers. There is no UN Council, WTO, IMF to help struggling minorities, peoples and states. Instead there are kingdoms limited only by their strength at arms and internal power struggles.If our modern real world has huge issues providing for our populations, how bad is the D&amp;D default worlds situation. Fancy spells and magic items are just going to become dominated by the elite. Sure there may be do-gooder Clerics helping their fellows but I bet the majority will be providing services to the nobles and merchants for big $s. Furthermore most of the gods won't give a toot about that side of things.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FreeTheSlaves, post: 1710507, member: 9952"] In regard to the magic as technology, the really big issue is distribution of wealth and freedom of opportunity. When I did my history/politics studies 5 years ago, I was quoted some UN statistics that a majority of people have not touched a telephone, let alone a computer. We live in an enlightened age, with solutions to most ailments and some 1/3 of the worlds population is in serious poverty. Something like a billion people don't have clean water. Ok I need to check the UN website for exactness but you get the point. In a default D&D world the wealth is highly concentrated (high level characters) and society infrastructure is quite weak. There is no formal social security, healthcare or education provided out of taxes. Taxes are not based on needs of the government, instead they are based on how much can we take without ruining future trade. Governments are decentralized feudal fiefdoms dependant on the lords character. Corruption occurs at all levels of administration as there are no independant checks on powers. There is no UN Council, WTO, IMF to help struggling minorities, peoples and states. Instead there are kingdoms limited only by their strength at arms and internal power struggles. If our modern real world has huge issues providing for our populations, how bad is the D&D default worlds situation. Fancy spells and magic items are just going to become dominated by the elite. Sure there may be do-gooder Clerics helping their fellows but I bet the majority will be providing services to the nobles and merchants for big $s. Furthermore most of the gods won't give a toot about that side of things. [/QUOTE]

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