(TFT) psychology of castle building

[Michael Taylor <MichaelTaylor1@compuserve.com>]

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One thing about the WTC disaster was how vulnerable they were, which made
me
think of discussions of castle vulnerabilities and how castles may not
exist
in a fantasy world as they are vulnerable to attacks which wouldn't exist
in
a nonmagical medieval world.<

I think this is not very likely. Castles are still a pretty cost effective
structure even in a fantasy world. 

If magic has any sort of magical backlash - even the 'default' backlash
from TFT - magic will be too unreliable for any king to be dependant on. 

If magic is at all difficult to learn - which it very much is in TFT -
there will not be enough wizards around to make magical defenses
worthwhile. 

Most theories about magical defenses for castles are "sprung from whole
cloth" full formed and ready to go. But in the 'real world' you have to
find all those wizards, pay them handsomely, keep them personally and
professionally happy.

Then you have to have them all working on spells at different times, all
risking backlash and wasted weeks worth of work. Can  you imagine the
nightmare of hoping every wizard finishes their magical doohickey at the
same time? Very tough when the amount of time to create a magical item is
as variable as it is in TFT!

And who exactly is going to make all this high intelligent, indivualists
(remember they have forsaken darn near EVERY other vocation to be wizards)
work like dwarves to manufacture these defenses?

I think castles and yeomen are just good economics!

Michael
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