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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 5984594" data-attributes="member: 8835">Something that Umbran kind of touches on, is that many ideas for Magitech coming from people in our current age are often tied to replicating effects of actual technology.Cellphones, rapid transit, etc.So the idea of Lightning Rail trains strikes some people as 'wrong' because it's just using magic to recreate our world.Rather than using Magic to create things that technology hasn't solved.  In our world, technology solved that which technology was able to solve.If you assume magic has different qualities an technology, then the areas it solves should also be different.This is where Umbran mentions free energy type solutions.  Curing horrible diseases (which real medicine and technology haven't been able to achieve D&D levels of success).A world where people don't get common diseases or ailments means people live fairly productive lives.  There are fewer cripples and invalids.A world with free energy means cities don't worry about electricity or polution.  Why upgrade from RenFair style society when the lights stay on, sewers stay clean, and food is in reasonable supply?</blockquote>