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Message: <blockquote data-quote="emoplato" data-source="post: 5844361" data-attributes="member: 97812">Yeah, I am going to have to majorly disagree with this premise. If you take into consideration the average starting age of spellcasters we are talking someone who has studied half of their life(assuming human) just so they can start to develop spells. They don't even have the spells yet to conjure materials or items that they have no idea how to make themselves. People like blacksmiths or weavers..etc though often were brought up with it or take a couple of years as an apprentice.  As for beings like elves while they may rely more off of magic and do not waste as much of their life in proportion they do not have the general expertise nor ingenuity of other races. Their low constitution scores would also suggest more vulnerability to disease and extended periods of manual labor. Also the system for 3.x magic is a prescribed allotment of spells. They have very little capability of being able to make more low level spells for an equivalence of less high level spells even though the market would want the different lower ones more. Blacksmiths, weavers,...etc on the other hand could more easily accommodate whether the town needs more weapons and rugs or kettles and clothes.</blockquote>