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Originally Posted by SteamBub
For an official setting, there's the The First Resistance article in Pyramid #3/48 and Dungeon Fantasy Collected. It's where the occupying nation has banned magic and the resistance uses a more subtle style.
And also there was someone that ran a DF game where the religious order suppressed the use of magic until most forgot that it can be used. This was done so they can have the more complicated religious magic as the dominant force as magic was very simple to learn. The game players had to first learn about magic and then hide the used of it from the religious order. I don't remember who ran this game and I might be mis-remembering it as a DF instead of a D&D game. |
You could see this in the same terms
Okinawans saw self-defense.
Nunchakus were once merely rice flails, common farm tools repurposed for self-defense. In fact, all sorts of common tools were made into weapons and not just in Asia.
If you had working magic, and it was outlawed, people would find new ways to work spells both for practical uses (bless crops) and defense. Given the loss of productivity outlawing working magic would entail, it is far more likely that certain spells would simply be declared malefica (evil magic). This would lead to figuring out how to use "harmless" spell colleges like Plant or Food for defense.