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<blockquote data-quote="TheSword" data-source="post: 9611055" data-attributes="member: 6879661">I don’t know how else to say this. The technology level of a world is a setting issue. The D&amp;D rules can’t bake in belonging to academia because some worlds aren’t going to have academia. I think you need to take two steps back and realise that people aren’t saying that magic is a science - but rather magic could be a science. In my case I’d go a couple more steps back because I actually said it could be a technology.<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">You/and others can develop new spells as you go up levels.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">You/and others can share those spells with other people by reading a spellbook.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">You can also record those spells as scrolls and other people can learn from those.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">There are guidelines for developing spells that have never been thought of yet.</li>
</ul>All your above requirements for research, iteration, sharing knowledge etc etc are covered by those 4 mechanisms. We don't need anything else to create a game world where magic behaves like a science. You seem to have an extremely modern expectation. There are lots of examples of books in published adventures that show people writing about magic - some of the older books even have spells themselves&nbsp; in them. It’s been a time old tradition in treasure building.As for your last point that costs for things prevents Magic possibly being seen as a science… have you stepped inside a university recently? Now go back 300 years. Spell costs are largely a function of materials.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheSword, post: 9611055, member: 6879661"] I don’t know how else to say this. The technology level of a world is a setting issue. The D&D rules can’t bake in belonging to academia because some worlds aren’t going to have academia. I think you need to take two steps back and realise that people aren’t saying that magic is a science - but rather magic could be a science. In my case I’d go a couple more steps back because I actually said it could be a technology. [LIST] [*]You/and others can develop new spells as you go up levels. [*]You/and others can share those spells with other people by reading a spellbook. [*]You can also record those spells as scrolls and other people can learn from those. [*]There are guidelines for developing spells that have never been thought of yet. [/LIST] All your above requirements for research, iteration, sharing knowledge etc etc are covered by those 4 mechanisms. We don't need anything else to create a game world where magic behaves like a science. You seem to have an extremely modern expectation. There are lots of examples of books in published adventures that show people writing about magic - some of the older books even have spells themselves in them. It’s been a time old tradition in treasure building. As for your last point that costs for things prevents Magic possibly being seen as a science… have you stepped inside a university recently? Now go back 300 years. Spell costs are largely a function of materials. [/QUOTE]

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