Why is magic used by so few when it is so much use?

Often PCs get on the wrong side of powerful users of magic or break into enchanted tombs, either may get them on the wrong side of a curse.

Since magic can be used so powerfully for evil, why are there not a lot more evil and/or deranged wizards around in the world?

A plume is seen far off in the distance, but what will it turn out to be when it gets closer? Only time will tell.

Many roleplays are set in a world where much of the land is held by barons and other nobles serving under the King or Queen. Sometimes the PCs may need to meet these nobles to ask for help in their Quest, at other times they may be caught for breaking the law and end up with their lives in his hands. Yet nobles are different;some may be good people who care for those underneath them and are loved in return, others may be unpleasent tyrantts hated and feared by their underlings, and still others a bit of both. With this in mind I present thirty nobles

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This is the tale of how Princess Amber liberated Vallermoore from it's mad Queen.