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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Clavis" data-source="post: 4044653" data-attributes="member: 31898">That's an excellent point. I think that too often we gamers forget human stupidity and greed when designing fantasy cultures. We have our societies do things because it would be fair and rational for them to do them, forgetting that human beings are inherently irrational and greedy. Sure it would be rational for our game cultures to be egalitarian, just, accepting of magic, non-racist, etc. There's no rational reason every fantasy city shouldn't have continual light orbs as streetlights, just as there's no rational reason modern cities couldn't be serviced by nearby solar-powered vertical farms. But just as there's too many people who make money on the oil-intensive way farming is currently done, the local lightlighter's guild and chandler's guild would probably assassinate any mage who threatened their business interests.What would be interesting is a race where the females are actually more magically powerful, but are nonetheless oppressed by the weaker males through cultural manipulation. Sure, the race would be better able to defend itself if it used all of its resources. But that would be morally wrong...</blockquote>