There is a breakdown in your analogy Epsilon, one that really isn't addressed in the D&D canon.
Technology works. It doesn't matter who you are. Anyone with access to the appropriate materials and information can make gunpowder. Or light a fire.
Magic, in the fantasy genre, does not tend to follow this rule.
Those that can actually 'do' magic are a very small percentage of the population; those that are actually trained in the use of magic are an even
smaller percentage of the population.
If you are using a game world in which all that is required to accomplish magic is to read a few books and practice like you would any other skill
(Blacksmithing, coopering, etc.) ; then the technology analogy is well placed and well argued. It just isn't usually part of the genre (one or two
examples from literature spring to mind, but they feature worlds not actually running amok, but sprinting amok.)
Shayne
Technology works. It doesn't matter who you are. Anyone with access to the appropriate materials and information can make gunpowder. Or light a fire.
Magic, in the fantasy genre, does not tend to follow this rule.
Those that can actually 'do' magic are a very small percentage of the population; those that are actually trained in the use of magic are an even
smaller percentage of the population.
If you are using a game world in which all that is required to accomplish magic is to read a few books and practice like you would any other skill
(Blacksmithing, coopering, etc.) ; then the technology analogy is well placed and well argued. It just isn't usually part of the genre (one or two
examples from literature spring to mind, but they feature worlds not actually running amok, but sprinting amok.)
Shayne