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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormborn" data-source="post: 3091525" data-attributes="member: 14041">The obvious are booths upon booths of magic items, potions, etc.  Also there will be speciality tents for mages:-A booth where a wizard can pay to copyspells from a spell book.-A booth where a wizard can hire or arrange to hire bodyguards ranging from ordinary warriors up to Troll Barbarians bound by spells to serve the mage.- Booths that sell material components - perhaps special ones that act as metamagic feats when used. -Mundane equipement booths that can be purchased or specially ordered, ranging from cauldrons and lore books to contractors who can build towers, lairs, and dungeons for the right price.For entertainment:- Duals held in a special arena.  Some of them probabbly very serious, some with "non-lethal" spells being used.- Contests to create artistic illusions- Pit fights between summoned monsters, with lots of betting here.- Combats between golems or undead and other created minions.- Tournaments  a la Harry Potter, where magic has to be used to cross a finish line- Lectures on magic theory, planar mechanics, etc. - Races of magic beasts and vessels- Demonstrations of magical items and possibly their constructionOverall:- lots of politics and social manuevering- lots of chances for making contacts- Mage Only Areas for stuff they don't want the commoners to see and other areas where peopel can gawk or pay money to have magical entertainments. - Spell casting rules, possibly including areas where a mage's fingers have to be bound to interfear with somatic components- High level security everywhere to keep things from getting out of hand- Temporary shrines set up to Gods of Magic - with services and evangelsists working to convert all commers.</blockquote>

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