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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9552307" data-attributes="member: 7006">First off... throw the pseudo-medieval crap right out the window.  Heck... with the tens of thousands of years that Faerun has been in existence and has had access to 9th level / 10th level magic... the fact that they are still pseudo-medieval is completely stupid.  Technology through magic should have taken all societies into modern if not far future levels by now.Illness-- gone.  Energy-- abundant.  Food and water-- abundant.  Death-- gone.  Building of structures-- easy.  Transportation-- simple.  Entertainment-- VR via illusion easily a thing.I'm sorry... but as soon as the first person figured out a way to 'Wish' things they wanted into existence via 9th level magic... almost every single person in all societies would have been sending their kids to magic school.  20th level Wizards would be all over the place, not just in the hands of a few people.  Heck... we humans learned about medicine and curing diseases and have since then been seeing hundreds of thousands of people go to medical school to continue that.  Anyone think we wouldn't see the exact same thing with magic if people could cure diseases and raise the dead?Humans within written history and their advances in technology started maybe like 8000 years ago, and we can see where we are now.  Technological advancement begats technology advancement, and thus worlds remaining stuck in medieval times when advanced magic can pretty much solve all of humanity's problems is laughable.</blockquote>

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