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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Son of the Serpent" data-source="post: 7976411" data-attributes="member: 7015476">Id like to point something out about this too.  If the world was PERFECTLY like the medieval era is would actually be unrealistic even if that is what it was based on provided the only thing you have added is magic.  We know that wealthier individuals had higher hygeine (normal for any society).  We also know that upper classes and wealthier individuals were more likely to be the mystical elite.Now apply REAL magic to this.  People with magical talent are just obviously more likely to make their way into upper classes.  Whats the most common cantrip of them all?  Thats right.  Prestidigitation.  So one immediate change would be that the wealthy would actually bath less often than the poor anyway because prestidigitation can do a better job than bathing even in our age can typically do.  Its magically perfect.  Dont know how to do it yourself?  Most likely in such a society the rich would be able to afford a magic item as minor as a once a day prestidigitation cheaper long term than soap.  And your magic comunity probably has common courtesy ethic develop in their culture that shapes social interaction such that every time one of your buddies who knows some magic shakes someone's hand they are already subconsciously casting prestidigitation every time they do that seeing as cantrips are as simple as a gesture.With all the things that are an effect of the ideas in d&d, that arent even supposed to be related to the time period in the first place, effecting things on a constant basis, some things are just obviously going to be very different.Some times the tech or cultural differences between d&d regions and the irl geographic/chronological regions they represent just very obviously are the result of sloppy history or inacurate assumptions thereof, but in a lot of cases is just seems intuitive that there would be differences.I hope that this was some food for thought.  Have a good day/night or whatever it is for you.</blockquote>

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