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<blockquote data-quote="Kian" data-source="post: 5910906" data-attributes="member: 6694109">Well, if you have all the materials already, you don't need to be particularly intelligent. Just assemble it all.Mixing magic and tech is kind of silly, though. Tech arises from the need to deal with complicated situations. I want to lift something heavy, I create a crane to leverage the strength I have.Magic solves the problem directly. I want to raise something, I cast levitation. In order to develop a crane, magic would have to be less available than the intelligence required to work out the principles of physics a crane operates on and developing the crane. If magic is freely available, technology doesn't develop because it is unnecessary. All the smart people would be using the available solution, magic, to solve the problems. Not studying the natural world for mechanical solutions.Magic would then stunt technological advancement. Why study anything but the most basic first aid if healing magic deals with stuff that medicine can't even come close to? You'd need to make magic very scarce or limited to encourage smart people becoming scientists and engineers instead of wizards.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kian, post: 5910906, member: 6694109"] Well, if you have all the materials already, you don't need to be particularly intelligent. Just assemble it all. Mixing magic and tech is kind of silly, though. Tech arises from the need to deal with complicated situations. I want to lift something heavy, I create a crane to leverage the strength I have. Magic solves the problem directly. I want to raise something, I cast levitation. In order to develop a crane, magic would have to be less available than the intelligence required to work out the principles of physics a crane operates on and developing the crane. If magic is freely available, technology doesn't develop because it is unnecessary. All the smart people would be using the available solution, magic, to solve the problems. Not studying the natural world for mechanical solutions. Magic would then stunt technological advancement. Why study anything but the most basic first aid if healing magic deals with stuff that medicine can't even come close to? You'd need to make magic very scarce or limited to encourage smart people becoming scientists and engineers instead of wizards. [/QUOTE]

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