I would use Scholar's Touch every day if I had that spell.
That just sounds dirty.
I would use Scholar's Touch every day if I had that spell.
...until the anti-intellectuals decide to tear everything down, or the magic gets used up, or there is a great cataclysm...or a combination thereof...(see Larry Niven's Magic Goes Away stories)...
OTOH, Harry Turtleove's Darkness novels depict a fantasy world were magic and tech work together to form a world we would all recognize...for good and ill.
Magic pervades the world, much like modern tech, but it doesn't do everything.
Not really. All of the most powerful classes in d&d are in someway reliant on mental ability scores.