Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24104118-20131207221205/@comment-4867780-20140409100103

And this physical inability can take two forms : lack of proper tools and lack of people to manipulate. Though these two essentially applies in primitive societies and isolated lands. Few stories take place in such settings, since it's obviously boring. As long as there's people around you and a resonable level of technology/magic, the user would have access to enormous possibilities (easy to manipulate people when you're both omniscient and hypercomptence, easy also to multiply the tchnology/magical level if you have enough of a base to start with.