Again, though, depends on the frequency of magical capability, and is looking on the positive without remembering the negative.
On my world of Zarathan (my main FRPG setting and part of my main writing world, mentioned once in Digital Knight and the central location in my partially completed "Balanced Sword" trilogy, which I hope to see published one day), there are or were things like flying ships (airplanes), teleport gates, etc., but a lot of these get balanced out or negated by opposing magicians and gods. Teleportation is ... REASONABLY safe, but it's less so for major characters/beings because their attempts to bend space and time will be subject to a lot more attention. Just a LITTLE interference with a teleport can have Bad Effects.
There are still farmers, etc., but what they DO have are charms which are as good or better than our best fertilizers, etc., enabling them to produce a lot more, reliably, on less ground.
However, what you DON'T have are countries as we know them. "Countries" like the State of Elbon Nomicon or the Empire of the Mountain are, in actuality, a long string of cities with islands of relative safety and stability around them, connected by roads that are enchanted and well defended, but mostly with what amounts to variable wildernesses between them. The largest city on Zarathan is probably Zarathanton (the human name; the Ancient Sauran/Dragon name for it is Fanalam' T' ameris' a' u' Zahr-a-Thana T'ikon), and it's probably got between 150,000 to 200,000 people in it. Possibly as much as twice that, but no more.
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On my world of Zarathan (my main FRPG setting and part of my main writing world, mentioned once in Digital Knight and the central location in my partially completed "Balanced Sword" trilogy, which I hope to see published one day), there are or were things like flying ships (airplanes), teleport gates, etc., but a lot of these get balanced out or negated by opposing magicians and gods. Teleportation is ... REASONABLY safe, but it's less so for major characters/beings because their attempts to bend space and time will be subject to a lot more attention. Just a LITTLE interference with a teleport can have Bad Effects.
There are still farmers, etc., but what they DO have are charms which are as good or better than our best fertilizers, etc., enabling them to produce a lot more, reliably, on less ground.
However, what you DON'T have are countries as we know them. "Countries" like the State of Elbon Nomicon or the Empire of the Mountain are, in actuality, a long string of cities with islands of relative safety and stability around them, connected by roads that are enchanted and well defended, but mostly with what amounts to variable wildernesses between them. The largest city on Zarathan is probably Zarathanton (the human name; the Ancient Sauran/Dragon name for it is Fanalam' T' ameris' a' u' Zahr-a-Thana T'ikon), and it's probably got between 150,000 to 200,000 people in it. Possibly as much as twice that, but no more.