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Originally Posted by Kromm
Cities are basically insulators. Just about all magical hokum has sources and insulators and amplifiers and so on. Pollution is harmful to life, ergo it soaks up life energy – something like that.
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Hm, as life energy in the nameless wilds gets sucked up into "Nature" and made available to casters, perhaps the life energy in cities is likewise sucked up, but because of the presence of a name ends up in a differently named pool.
Sure there don't happen to be any classes that draw on the "City of New York" or whatever energy pool in DF at the moment, but maybe it's theoretically possible. If enough energy builds up untapped in the pool, maybe it births a new City God.
Perhaps equally usefully as a plot hook, the same process might happen in named bits of wilderness - so if the Forest of Impenetrable Darkness keeps its name long enough, maybe Druids start suffering penalties in it and a weird new kind of spell casting becomes viable there.