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<blockquote data-quote="MechaTarrasque" data-source="post: 7029076" data-attributes="member: 6801226"><p>Supply and Demand. If every dirt farmer could read spellbooks (assuming they are literate, which might be a big assumption), then they would all be wizards. Then the value of being a wizard goes down, at least for common spells. How many gp's can the drow wizard charge for casting darkness in a drow city? Not much I imagine. Look at Eberron--half the wizards are in sweat shops making cheap magic trinkets.....oh, I am sorry, they are craftsmen working in a communal environment, or something like that--I am pretty sure I heard Nike say that about the places where kids make their shoes.</p><p></p><p>The wizards union takes a dim view of this prospect and ruthlessly enforces it.....at least until they figure out how to break the Weave, then they will make sure everyone learns how to be a wizard, so that "real wizards" can charge a lot more for fixing places where magic has broken down then they ever could for casting spells. Two words: subscription service.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MechaTarrasque, post: 7029076, member: 6801226"] Supply and Demand. If every dirt farmer could read spellbooks (assuming they are literate, which might be a big assumption), then they would all be wizards. Then the value of being a wizard goes down, at least for common spells. How many gp's can the drow wizard charge for casting darkness in a drow city? Not much I imagine. Look at Eberron--half the wizards are in sweat shops making cheap magic trinkets.....oh, I am sorry, they are craftsmen working in a communal environment, or something like that--I am pretty sure I heard Nike say that about the places where kids make their shoes. The wizards union takes a dim view of this prospect and ruthlessly enforces it.....at least until they figure out how to break the Weave, then they will make sure everyone learns how to be a wizard, so that "real wizards" can charge a lot more for fixing places where magic has broken down then they ever could for casting spells. Two words: subscription service. [/QUOTE]
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