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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 4598919" data-attributes="member: 3400">Hmmm... I'd say that in D&D rules magic arose as a toolbox full of artillery shells (plus a variety of multi-tools and scanners). That says very little about how magic arose in D&D worlds, which presumably would have an in-character perspective and would probably have more in common with how beliefs about magic developed in the real world. The main difference in this case is that the beliefs about magic in D&D worlds, being part of fantasy fiction, were not necessarily domitable by real physical laws and could develop as an alternative means of explaining and manipulating the environment.To push on from there, from an in-character perspective, the common features involved in manipulating magical forces could certainly come to approach a level of technology - albeit one that allowed talented individuals, whether that talent came from innate ability, divine connections, or long study, to manipulate the environment in ways that could otherwise break the standard physical laws binding other forms of technology. That, I think, takes magic out of the realm of regular technology as far as the feel goes even if it does bear some similar trappings.</blockquote>