What would follow in a setting if magic had become commonplace,

>>47487835
Isn't that the context of eberron?

>>47490118
Never heard of it.

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>>47487835
They do this in some countries in the Forgotten Realms.

>http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Halruaa

>>47487835
>Cantrips like Mending, Message or Mage Hand

I read 'Message' as 'Massage' and promptly thought of how those three cantrips would make for some very popular red-light districts.

>>47487835
Yo, that wizard's swole af senpai!

>>47487835
You'd have the default setting for Runequest.

>>47497415
I put on my wizard robe and hat.

>>47487835
Whatever is the most sensible and practical way of making money of your magical abilities is what inevitably ends up happening.

The problem with D&D type settings is that the "logical" adventuring party are on a specific mission or down on their luck and desperate, so they do something crazy in order to make it big or die trying. When the dust is cleared, they are either set, or they're dead.

But in D&D it's basically "lets do crazy stupid shit like it's our day job and we need to clock in at the dungeon" which leaves you with a bunch of extraordinarily powerful people wasting their potential by killing orcs or stealing treasure. Abilities that would make you a wealthy healer, world star gladiator or advisor to some king is used for murderhoboing.

This makes it tricky for a lot of people to visualize what people might actually do if they had magic, because the game focuses on the most retarded way of using it possible.

>>47502957
Murderhoboing is important work. It thins out the monster population and occasionally saves the continent or even the entire world if they stumble upon an important adventure. You wont insult murderhobos! I wont stand for it!

>>47502997
But a nationwide monster problem or world-ending threats should not be left to unregulated amateurs without systematic approach, accountability or reliable means of contact and contracting!

It should be organized and coordinated! A concerted, systematic effort would reduce the monster population drastically over just a few years, and the project would pay for itself many times over just from the increased tax income from a populace that can concern itself with working, raising kids and planting crops rather than worrying about ogres and goblins.

Adventurers, bah! That's no way of defending the nation.

>>47502997

Or you end up with a group of unregulated morons, loons, and criminals who go around causing mischief and unleashing said monsters and horrors upon the world when they stumble into shit that they had no idea of how to properly handle.

>>47487835
They'd probably start by sending all their children to a single school that teaches their kids how to throw dangerous hexes at each other with unregulated wands instead of reading or writing or arithmetic.

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>>47487835

>not using the superior version of this image

>>47487835
It's like if many people had weapons or guns. The stronger still rules. You just have to write magic in a different way.