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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6312420" data-attributes="member: 177">To answer these questions, we need to know a lot about the rules of the world, beyond what's in the PHB.Not necessarily.  You figure Henry V was, in fact, the greatest swordsman in the land?  No.  While literature usually has an individual of prowess personally winning and taking the throne, that is because you want the protagonist to become the Big Person On Campus.  That doesn't mean things would actually turn out that way.  Ultimately, political power flows from the ability to get people to do things for you.  Conan cannot beat his entire kingdom into submission with a sword and fear of his person.  How you get people to do things for you is, in part, cultural.Note - with D&D magic, this is not assured.  Only clerics can be sure to verify it, and they are not "independent".  By RAW, it is possible that clerics *think* their powers come from gods, but they come from their force of will, or somesuch.  Yes, but do you trust the magician?  Who watches the watchmen?  Relying on an individual spellcaster to give expert testimony on truth is asking for abuses. This becomes an issue of demographics - how many people who can cast these spells actually exist in the world?  This would depend on the world's rules for new spells.  If everyone is stuck with what is in the PHB, then they're stuck with those.  Otherwise... expect a permanent version of Dimensional Lock to protect the quarters of the mighty.  Expect the development of spells or items that can detect teleportation magics anywhere in the city, and spellcasters on hand to jump in and cast spells that create stone on the site into which people are teleporting, and so on...</blockquote>

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