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Listen, in high fantasy settings you typically get a cod-mediaeval society coexisting beside starships'n'deathray-equivalent magic, right?
So there's got to be a REASON why the folks plodding along behind the mule don't have any truck with flying carpets etc.
My money is on: magic is like software; so you get an integer overflow and your flying carpet turns into a fungal network that eats you alive.
And have you ever MET a wizard? Would YOU use an enchanted broom That Guy created as an MVP?
@cstross could be different reasons: Maybe magic is scare or a non renewable resource or a wizard can only do so much magic per day.
@sbamueller @cstross Re magic as a finite resource idea
Have a read of "The Magic Goes Away" by Larry Niven
That explores the idea
@staringatclouds @sbamueller Shockingly, I might have read that back in the late 1970s …
@cstross @sbamueller I'm pretty sure I've still got a copy