[ajuc]

> Sure, not everyone is an adventurer, but level 1 adventurers probably aren't particularly rare in the world.

How often do you meet other adventuring groups when you play D&D?

Post-scarcity magic utopia is one solution, but it's certainly not the setting of most D&D campaigns.

> Fundamentally, my response to the article is that D&D's just a collection of systems meant to generate fun, not be an accurate model of a particular time and place in history.

Sure, but more realistic medieval fantasy can be just as fun and more interesting (cause your players' unconscious assumptions about how any world has to work are broken).