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<blockquote data-quote="Ixal" data-source="post: 8341271" data-attributes="member: 7030132">A lot of &quot;just use magic&quot; solutions, but you forget that magic also requires resources. Not only require a higher institute of learning, something only wealthy societies can usually afford, but also uncommon things like ink, paper or parchment and spell components or crystals.And you need a lot of spellcasters. Plant grow can double the yield, but only on a small field per day. To really make an impact you still need a lot of fields and enough spellcaster to cast this spell throughout the growing season every day.Same with magically heating forges and smelters. And don't forget that this requires careful temperature control over a longer period of time, something most fire spells usually don't do.Also, don't forget that if you do use the &quot;recently fallen empire&quot; background, this fallen empire would have already relied on magical support and thus would have had less conventional farms etc. to begin with, meaning you still run into a deficit, especially as people with higher education (spellcaster) are among the first things to vanish when an empire falls as compared to farmers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ixal, post: 8341271, member: 7030132"] A lot of "just use magic" solutions, but you forget that magic also requires resources. Not only require a higher institute of learning, something only wealthy societies can usually afford, but also uncommon things like ink, paper or parchment and spell components or crystals. And you need a lot of spellcasters. Plant grow can double the yield, but only on a small field per day. To really make an impact you still need a lot of fields and enough spellcaster to cast this spell throughout the growing season every day. Same with magically heating forges and smelters. And don't forget that this requires careful temperature control over a longer period of time, something most fire spells usually don't do. Also, don't forget that if you do use the "recently fallen empire" background, this fallen empire would have already relied on magical support and thus would have had less conventional farms etc. to begin with, meaning you still run into a deficit, especially as people with higher education (spellcaster) are among the first things to vanish when an empire falls as compared to farmers. [/QUOTE]

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