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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rahkan" data-source="post: 184616" data-attributes="member: 3583">I prefer a high magic worldFirst of all, in response to the directly above. Why not simply research such a spell. What you are advocating is a decrease in the power of an existing spell along with a commensurate decrease in level. I'm pretty sure, but not totally, that wizards in 3e can still do their own spell research.Secondly, I find that I actually prefer a high magic world. If I'm in a fantasy world I want to know I'm in a fantasy world. I want flying ships, djinn servants in every noble's household, and a good decanter of endless water at the bottom of every king's palace. To me high magic means that every person has just a little bit of wonder at his command. It means that a smith can snap his fingers and have his forge alight. It means that a housewife and divine the location of her lost pots, it means that an herbalist merely has to speak a word and the mixture in her beaker will swirl and stir itself evenly. It also means even less technology than is normal in a fantasy world. A high-magic world doesn't have printing presses, it has printers who can magically replicate the same paper over and over. A high magic world doesn't have surgical tools, it has doctors who can make incisions merely by passing their hand over their subject. A high magic world doesn't have flying buttresses, it has a roof supported by magic. See where I'm going with this?In the end it doesn't really affect game balance since A. DnD is designed for high magic in the first place and B. Many of the tasks handled by technology are now handled by magic, or are so minor that they simply replace small exertions. However it is true that a high-magic world changes things significantly. many a murder can be solved simply by speaking with the dead corpse and asking it. Rich men will live far longer than is their normal lot, simply because of raise dead (though it would be a funny wrinkle if most people didn't want to come back, simply because the afterlife is so great). I find re-imagining a world around this stuff to be fun.</blockquote>

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