The Road to Adventure

[Skarg]

We made many, many maps of various countries and places, with different kinds of road networks. But gates never became a large-scale substitute for the need for roads, wagons, mounts, walking, ships, etc. There were only so many wizards with Create Gate, only so many of those willing to spend only so much time creating gates for only certain people and organizations, mostly the Wizards' Guild itself and its own purposes. And aristocrats, militaries, and other closed groups with a great desire for instant long-range travel. The Guild tended to only sometimes make some gates available, they didn't offer it very cheaply, and usually only to people they didn't mind letting into the parts of their guildhalls where their gates generally were. And that was in the liberal countries... in the more tightly controlled places, the gates tended to be for those in power, and/or who was allowed to gate in and out was tightly scrutinized and controlled.