D&D General What would be the best and worst parts or living in a D&D campaign world?

[Puddles]

Best: Dabble in the dark arts, become a Lich, summon thralls to do your bidding.

Worst: Pesky adventures coming to steal your hard won loot. Best make a dungeon full of traps to guard it. Curse the choice items for good measure.

 

[BookTenTiger]

Worst: No toilet paper.

The one peasant with Prestidigitation stays very busy.

You instantaneously clean or soil an object no larger than 1 cubic foot.

 

[Oofta]

Worst: No toilet paper.

Good sir, perhaps I can interest you in our minor water elemental bidet? For just a few low monthly payments it can be yours!

 

[jgsugden]

Well, I'm pretty sure I'd have been the wizard that invented the vibrating wand, so I'd be just fine.

 

[MarkB]

The one peasant with Prestidigitation stays very busy.

That's what makes those magical powers so awesome.

 

[Shiroiken]

Best: potential to see/use magic.

Worst: VERY short life expectancy, especially if related to a PC.

 

[Shiroiken]

The one peasant with Prestidigitation stays very busy.

Heh, my next character is going to have prestidigitation and use it to soil the backside of anyone who pisses me off

 

[Dioltach]

Worst might be the regular-as-clockwork Realms Shattering Events. Or being an NPC and knowing it.

 

[Oofta]

The one peasant with Prestidigitation stays very busy.

Could you imagine being a "bathroom attendant" as your career? There's gold in them there ... hills?

 

[Oofta]

Depends on the realm of course. Assuming my campaign world and that you're not caught up in some conflict at the moment, practical magic is relatively common. Not quite Eberron magic train level, but certainly healing poultices, prayers making the crops grow and so on. With that in mind...

Best: magic and magical creatures are real. If you break you leg it's still going to take time to heal but the local hedge witch can use her magic to cut the time in half and make sure it heals correctly for example.

Worst: the supernatural is real and so are things that go bump in the night. There's always that chance the local hedge witch is really a hag in disguise.