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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 2523802" data-attributes="member: 463">Rome certainly didn't achieve greatness through being "more technologically advanced" - the Greek cities, notably Syracuse, were mostly considerably more advanced in military technology at the time of Rome's rise to greatness.   It seems to have been discipline & bloody-mindedness that brought Rome victory in the face of many more technologically-advanced enemies.My 'handwave', which for some reason you refuse to accept, is that magic per se is not as stable and predictable or as common as implied by the PHB, that PHB magic is only for PCs and a few exceptional NPCs.  OTOH I agree with your view that stable powerful kingdoms will attempt to control and use this small number of magic-users.</blockquote>