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    Default Charities in a mid-high magic world?

    Pretty much what the title says. What charities would you expect to find in a mid to high-magic world that has elves and dragons and wizards? Obviously you have the more "normal" charities for taking care of orphans, feeding the hungry, and caring for disabled soldiers. But what else might you find?

    Taking it further, if you had an NPC that donated to charity both because they believed in it, and because it furthered the plans of a secret organization they were a member of, what would you make?
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    Default Re: Charities in a mid-high magic world?

    In order to answer this question you first have to decide how the magic present in the world has altered the fundamental economy (and in the case of high magic, potentially the fundamental physics, D&D allows perpetual motion machines and therefore potentially limitless energy). At the extreme you produce a post-scarcity magitech utopia in which case the very concept of charity largely ceases to exist.
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    Default Re: Charities in a mid-high magic world?

    Brotherhood of the Damned
    Monasteries devoted to protecting those who have dabbled in dark arts and drawn the unwelcome attention of infernal beings. The estates are surrounded with banishment wards and virtually their entire interior is an antimagic zone. Monks whth banishment tools patrol the accesses to these monasteries, which are located far from populated areas.


    Society for the Removal of Unwanted Magical Effects
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    School for the Gifted and Talented
    What do you do when your budding young offspring manifests strange abilities? What about your curious child who would rather disect fish than play sportsball with the other children? Let us test them. Qualified young applicants may earn partial or full scholarships at the GT Academy. Job placement services for our graduates guarantees honorable work in a lifelong carreer with opportunities for advancement.
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    What about a resurrection charity? Being brought back from the dead is expensive, and well beyond the means of most people, but donating money to a church so people who need it can have free or low cost resurrections and regenerations would be a worthy cause. Sure, you're not going to rezz Oldy McAncient who died of being 103, but Goody Rogers, who left her husband with four hungry children and a crop in the field, before dying in a threshing accident? She could come back.
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    Default Re: Charities in a mid-high magic world?

    Quote Originally Posted by brian 333 View Post
    Brotherhood of the Damned
    Monasteries devoted to protecting those who have dabbled in dark arts and drawn the unwelcome attention of infernal beings. The estates are surrounded with banishment wards and virtually their entire interior is an antimagic zone. Monks whth banishment tools patrol the accesses to these monasteries, which are located far from populated areas.


    Society for the Removal of Unwanted Magical Effects
    A charity devoted to curse removal. More powerful magic may also be removed if the required spellcaster is available.


    School for the Gifted and Talented
    What do you do when your budding young offspring manifests strange abilities? What about your curious child who would rather disect fish than play sportsball with the other children? Let us test them. Qualified young applicants may earn partial or full scholarships at the GT Academy. Job placement services for our graduates guarantees honorable work in a lifelong carreer with opportunities for advancement.
    Good ideas!! Especially the 1st and 3rd. My world is (was) demon-heavy before they were driven out, so have a charity themed in that vein seems appropriate. And there are already Academies dedicated to arcane/divine magical education, so maybe a charity focuses on helping underprivileged youth go to those schools.

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    What about a resurrection charity? Being brought back from the dead is expensive, and well beyond the means of most people, but donating money to a church so people who need it can have free or low cost resurrections and regenerations would be a worthy cause. Sure, you're not going to rezz Oldy McAncient who died of being 103, but Goody Rogers, who left her husband with four hungry children and a crop in the field, before dying in a threshing accident? She could come back.
    I like the concept, but I think I want to stay away from resurrection stuff, at least for the time being. But perhaps something to help Goody Rogers' husband would work.
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    Medieval hospitals were essentially charities, although I can't go too in-depth on them lest I anger the forum rules. In a world with magic, you can have a lot of fun with these, because you have all sorts of magical maladies - charity for prematurely aged, something to help level drains or other undead-related maldies and so on. What kind you would see would depend a lot on the region.

    Then you have charitable projects that, while not charities in modern sense, were a focus of a lot of pre-modern charity work. Building a bridge, a monastery or renovating a hospital, paying for consecration of desecrated lands and so forth.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Oramac View Post
    Pretty much what the title says. What charities would you expect to find in a mid to high-magic world that has elves and dragons and wizards? Obviously you have the more "normal" charities for taking care of orphans, feeding the hungry, and caring for disabled soldiers. But what else might you find?
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    The sisters of _____ travel around making sure training these women and making sure they have the tools they need. They do the healing themselves when there's great need or some gap. The proper members go to special enclaves to train. The Sisters are infamous for accepting imitates without notifying parents.

    Taking it further, if you had an NPC that donated to charity both because they believed in it, and because it furthered the plans of a secret organization they were a member of, what would you make?
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    Default Re: Charities in a mid-high magic world?

    Charity organizations dedicated to ensuring graveyard security. Both against spontaneous undead and against necromancers. Most small communities can't pay for a dedicated grave-watcher, but an undead outbreak threatens everyone. So people chip in to sponsor traveling grave-watchers, who are often minor priests or anti-undead specialists of some sort.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PhoenixPhyre View Post
    Charity organizations dedicated to ensuring graveyard security. Both against spontaneous undead and against necromancers. Most small communities can't pay for a dedicated grave-watcher, but an undead outbreak threatens everyone. So people chip in to sponsor traveling grave-watchers, who are often minor priests or anti-undead specialists of some sort.
    Or they are themselves graverobbers and necromancers who are getting paid while secretly doing their thing.

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