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Why Does spell Reasearch Have Such a High Cost?
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<blockquote data-quote="Tar-Edhel" data-source="post: 772423" data-attributes="member: 688"><p>I'd gladly pay 1k/level for a new spell... 9k for a spell equivalent in power to Wish, Shapechange or Time Stop? Anytime baby! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></p><p></p><p>Let's use an analogy from the real world... Biomedical reserch. You can buy most medecine in a pharmacy for less than a few dollars (Note that I said most... some medecine are very expensive).</p><p></p><p>Now, ask you typical biomedical company the cost for developping a new medecine. Billions of dollars are spent just to improve painkillers.</p><p></p><p>Research is a lenghty and costly process. It is so in the real world, it should be the same in DnD worlds (IMO, that's where YMMV). If not, as mentionned, people will start creating new spells instead of buying existing ones. </p><p></p><p>Last but not least, you are not paying 1k/level for nothing. As already pointed out, you pay 1k/level for a spell that no mage can counterspell without Dispel Magic, a spell your ennemies will not be expecting and for hich they might not have defenses. Tha's nothing to sneeze at.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tar-Edhel, post: 772423, member: 688"] I'd gladly pay 1k/level for a new spell... 9k for a spell equivalent in power to Wish, Shapechange or Time Stop? Anytime baby! :D Let's use an analogy from the real world... Biomedical reserch. You can buy most medecine in a pharmacy for less than a few dollars (Note that I said most... some medecine are very expensive). Now, ask you typical biomedical company the cost for developping a new medecine. Billions of dollars are spent just to improve painkillers. Research is a lenghty and costly process. It is so in the real world, it should be the same in DnD worlds (IMO, that's where YMMV). If not, as mentionned, people will start creating new spells instead of buying existing ones. Last but not least, you are not paying 1k/level for nothing. As already pointed out, you pay 1k/level for a spell that no mage can counterspell without Dispel Magic, a spell your ennemies will not be expecting and for hich they might not have defenses. Tha's nothing to sneeze at. [/QUOTE]
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