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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8426175" data-attributes="member: 6704184">This also makes me doubt whether you've read much of the thread before posting. I have explicitly said several times that the point of the question is to figure out if it's needed/worthwhile/more interesting or not to include in-world reasons for characters to eschew magic in a world where magic isn't evil or Faustian or corrupting or life-draining or whatever, it's just a part of nature. What might motivate a person to do that, in the absence of the Conan or Wheel of Time reasons? If you see that as leading to &quot;this guy thinks that people will ignore their own biases while playing a character&quot; then...you and I are coming from such different ideas of how one thing follows from another that I'm not sure we can meaningfully discuss anything. If we have simply talked past eachother, and you didn't realize that was where I was coming from, then I'm happy to start over.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 8426175, member: 6704184"] This also makes me doubt whether you've read much of the thread before posting. I have explicitly said [I]several times[/I] that the point of the question is to figure out if it's needed/worthwhile/more interesting or not to include in-world reasons for characters to eschew magic in a world where magic isn't evil or Faustian or corrupting or life-draining or whatever, it's just a part of nature. What might motivate a person to do that, in the absence of the Conan or Wheel of Time reasons? If you see that as leading to "this guy thinks that people will ignore their own biases while playing a character" then...you and I are coming from such different ideas of how one thing follows from another that I'm not sure we can meaningfully discuss anything. If we have simply talked past eachother, and you didn't realize that was where I was coming from, then I'm happy to start over. [/QUOTE]

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