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<blockquote data-quote="Doug McCrae" data-source="post: 6153611" data-attributes="member: 21169">It's a question of what model you use for wizard culture. Is it like medieval alchemy, where each practitioner is highly secretive; or is like science, academia, and the open source movement, where knowledge is shared freely?D&amp;D worlds are typically closer to the modern world, with wizarding universities and the like. However Gygaxian D&amp;D is different. Imo, it presents a cynical view of human nature, where people are more selfish than they are in our own world, partly to make the game more challenging. In Gygaxian D&amp;D, NPC magic users charge a high price to share spells - PCs are always getting ripped off. The Gygaxian approach, as expressed in 1e AD&amp;D, is somewhat contradictory as there are many 'name' spells such as Drawmij's Instant Summons, which suggests that magic users are learning one anothers' spells with some regularity.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Doug McCrae, post: 6153611, member: 21169"] It's a question of what model you use for wizard culture. Is it like medieval alchemy, where each practitioner is highly secretive; or is like science, academia, and the open source movement, where knowledge is shared freely? D&D worlds are typically closer to the modern world, with wizarding universities and the like. However Gygaxian D&D is different. Imo, it presents a cynical view of human nature, where people are more selfish than they are in our own world, partly to make the game more challenging. In Gygaxian D&D, NPC magic users charge a high price to share spells - PCs are always getting ripped off. The Gygaxian approach, as expressed in 1e AD&D, is somewhat contradictory as there are many 'name' spells such as [I]Drawmij's Instant Summons[/I], which suggests that magic users are learning one anothers' spells with some regularity. [/QUOTE]

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