How does anything stay locked?

[Chris Rice]

Originally Posted by Anthony

It's more a case of "given that these spells exist, how would a rational person interested in keeping his property secure accomplish it".

The lazy but annoying answer is that instead of a 6d lock you just put twenty 3d locks on the door and the wizard-thief runs out of ST long before he unlocks the door.

I think the problem with extrapolating what would happen if such and such a spell existed in a world in which Magic is not uncommon, is that the consequences can’t really be predicted with any certainty.

On another forum, I made a statement that “Castles (of the high fantasy medieval sort) would not exist if the Open Tunnel spell existed. This led to a spirited argument but no agreement.

I still have Castles in my games, even though I don’t think they would exist. And I’ll still have lock/knock although I agree that it’s existence would have unintended consequences. I just choose to ignore them.