# What's the most practical application of magic?

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**Created:** [July 21, 2006, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-practical-application-of-magic/365472 "2006-07-21T13:33:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-practical-application-of-magic/365472/21 "2006-07-23T09:52:08Z")

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> [@Ludovic](#):
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> I’m sure there would be some use for it, it’s just that they would seem to be fairly rare. In 3.5 D+D, there isn’t anything exactly like it: Teleportation Circle lasts only 10 minutes per level and can’t be permanentized, and Ring Gate (magic item equivalent of that) is too small.

This is the part where I say:

:smack:

> [@Ludivoc](#):
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> Or you could put a permanent _gate_ to the 666th layer of the Abyss at the end of your sewer 🙂

Abyss? In one campaign I played in, there turned out to be a portal to the Demi-Plane of Shit. 😃

Boy, was _that_ a fun place to be.

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**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-practical-application-of-magic/365472/22 "2006-07-23T10:42:53Z")

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What’s all this crap about curing disease and teleportation?

Getting into the women’s locker room unseen is the answer, of course.

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