Anon has a power fantasy

There's a lot of hidden costs and infrastructure needed for magical flying beasts. Not to mention limited capacity. Little can compete with the horse drawn cart when it comes to capacity for price though.

setting has lemmy

still using 4chan

You would just not believe the regulatory burden of maintaining magical creature flying safety regime too.

You drop a simple glove off directing and 30min later, boom. You've got a gnome commission setting up barriers around it and paperwork for weeks to come..

Setting has electric cars

Car enthusiasts of the setting are fanatical about petrol cars instead

A more accurate analogy would be along the lines of having jets and helicopters in the world but still using cars or trains as the main form of transportation.

Fall off a horse -> dust yourself off and get back on. There's a whole idiom about how falling off horses is a frustrating but ultimately minor inconvenience.

Fall off a gryphon -> you are dead.

Both of these can be explained with the same reasoning.

Makes me wanna link the thread where people were making the argument that wheelchair users and deaf people wouldn't exist in fantasy settings.

A horse costs way less than a scroll of Teleport, or seven Fly. Like how it's cheaper to drive than take a plane. You also don't take a plane when an hour long drive will do, and you don't cast Teleport to go from your room at the inn to the nearby village to clear out some goblins.

Dystopian Fantasy; only the rich and powerful have access to magic.

Edit: Bright would actually be that, now that I think about it. 🤔

Discworld really handled the overlap of magic and technology the best.

Coal 675 billion kwh

Nuclear 775 billion kwh

Renewables 894 billion kwh

Natural Gas 1802 billion kwh

This meme is dumb and wrong. Funny tho.

"We need to subsidize the horse industry to protect jobs!"