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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JohnSnow" data-source="post: 2919593" data-attributes="member: 32164"><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> I just had to give you great big kudos for this one but I couldn't find an applause-o-smilie.I agree completely. The arcane/divine thing is one of my big pet peeves from D&D. And, more to the point, by making healing come from the same spellcasters who are the source of all the things that go "bump in the night," you take care of one big glaring hole in D&D. And that is, by the rules as written, people would trust clerics who can be immensely helpful, clearing wounds and disease, controlling weather and the like, but probably decide wizards were much better if they were crispy-fried.Why would anyone ever trust wizards with their power? Personally, of all the things I'm ever expected to disbelieve, human nature is the hardest thing for me to accept changes in. So, my gut instinct is that most people would react to wizards and spellcasters about the way they react to: a) Mutants in X-Men comics, or b) accused witches in Earth's past. That is, control them or kill them in various creative ways before they get dangerous. And what can a low-level wizard do against an angry mob bent on burning him at the stake? Damn little.Of course, there's going to be a little of the Wheel of Time mentality on Aes Sedai if wizards can be helpful. Basically, the public doesn't trust them, uses them as a last resort, but will grudgingly suffer their aid once in a while. Magic is not something to be trifled with. So, going back to one form of magic can make for a world where magic is feared, reviled, and avoided, but might be used in a pinch.D&D always ducks this attitude by saying "well, anyone can learn it, so nobody would be afraid, right?"Right. That fits with human nature. Which is why old women and men with nothing more than herbalism and a little learning were hung, drowned, or burned at the stake in the real world. People distrust power and those who know things they don't or can do things they can't. To me, human nature is what prevents an Eberron-style magic renaissance. It's a fantasy golden age that would probably NEVER come to pass. Which is why in most campaigns, that world belongs in some mythical, long-past, age of legends. Because it's a complete fantasy - even in a world with magic.Unless of course, everyone's mind-controlled by some uber-deity...but that would be a much darker campaign. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" />Oh, one last comment on the whole "flying" thing. I like to make flying difficult and teleportation nearly impossible because I like characters tromping through the wilderness. Of course, certain creatures can fly, and might have been harnessed as flying mounts...But flying carpets, cars, platforms, brooms, garbage cans and everything else in creation? Not so much.</blockquote>

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