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Message: <blockquote data-quote="prosfilaes" data-source="post: 3983545" data-attributes="member: 40166">As I said, a Boeing 747, which you can ride on for a few hundred bucks, costs 200 million dollars. And a Teleportation Circle is the height of comfort compared to a plane ride. If there were just one 18th level wizard around willing to set up just one or two of these, I think we'd be talking a billion dollars, easily.Seriously, to jump a flight, business class, from New York to London, tomorrow, would cost me $4,000. Only 250,000 people would have to travel by teleportation instead of a 7 hour business class flight to make up that billion. And a billion dollars is a heck of a lot incentive. How many 18th level wizards are there? I suspect there would be tens of thousands in the modern world; that's only one per every hundred thousand, which seems roughly on par with Faerun. I think even if there were a mere handful of known 18th level wizards, someone would cast these circles at a billion a pop, and these circles would make changes in high-end travel. If one out of every million people was an 18th level wizard, I suspect that even cheap airplane travel would be replaced by teleportation cirlces, even while it was making every 18th level wizard a multi-millionare.</blockquote>