Me Thinking Unoriginal Thoughts on Magic

"And to defeat the Darklord™ you need this sword that never gets dull made a thousand years ago. "

"Okay hey wait a minute why were more of these never made? You know the secret is discovered and soon everyone is making magic swords that don't rust, don’t need sharpening, and can't be broken. So why aren't these things as common enough that everyone has one by now? I mean if just one a year is made by just one master smith there should be like a thousand of the unbreakable things wandering about somewhere."

"Just shut up and take the bloody magic sword."

There is totally a place for magic things that happen and are never explained or are not used by everyone to change the world. It's just when the group of noble adventurers is outfitted to a man with magic swords, magic mail, and magic is used everywhere in place of torches a person might get to wondering why these things aren't used more like real people would use them. I think Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a great place to start to figure out how magic would really be used as opposed to how it is often used in the standard EFP (Extruded Fantasy Product or more kindly Epic Fantasy Pastiche) Fantasyland.

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Next time: More detail on what people would really use magic for.