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Originally Posted by David Johnston2
If you have thousands of wizards each casting 8 commercial spells a day every work day...wizards who are incidentally not actually competent to deal with the results because they only know enough to make a living, the demon summonings (or equivalent) will be happening probably every year. Most wizards will never experience them but they'd be a regular town crier headline.
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True.
That's one argument for having spell levels: The level of the spell cast affects the Fumble Outcome Roll, so that casting low level spells tends to create less painful backfires. Economically useful spells will still tend to be medium-level, though, so they won't be very safe.