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aldantefax posted:Part of answer those fiddly questions like "why wazzard school in the first place" is probably pretty key on this to make such a setting cohesive. This could be expanded to any major institution that is featured in any setting since it also provides a foundation for how people grow up in that society and treat the world around them (potentially, anyway). My DM and I are doing what this thread is about since he wants to expand on his setting and keep using it for any campaign he runs. There's a disclaimer, though. How "boringly realistic" do you want to be, and how much are politics allowed to enter the discussion? I'm asking because our discussion about "organizations which regulate and teach magic" hit pretty soon a particular point of discussion - magic without strings attached is a tool to exercise power. Such a tool, used at the whim of individuals, is going to create huge social inequality. Therefore it's pretty logical to assume any society which values equality would heavily regulate magic... and that's without even entering into the domain of what a "monopoly on violence" is. That partially answers "why wizard school in the first place" - but, as I said, it really depends on how much you're willing to let political sciences enter the setting. We went further on from this point, but that was an interesting milestone. Char fucked around with this message at 16:44 on Mar 26, 2021 |
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Replying late on this, but there's another collateral meta-question that came up in our setting discussion - what is the role of the Divine with regards to the setting? We found the starting answers to be less specific because we still don't have distinct answers - we also found that anything the DM says about religion is going to set up more political tones, but basically, the opening salvo included "what is a god", "what does a god do", "how are gods made", "why does a god do what they do". Also, we found out that answering with too many details could dissolve too much of the mysterious and unfathomable nature of gods - and without mystery, they're not gods: they are superpowered self-inserts. We didn't have the chance to discuss religions yet, but I expect that to be another philosophy-vs-rule of cool deep dive.
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