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>So you're telling me there is this esoteric art in your world that bends the rules of reality, and no one really knows how it works or where those powers come from, +90% of the population will never have any sort of contact with these powers, yet some have a natural knack for it, and DON'T use it to live as kings?
Yes, that tends to be a consequence of something being sufficiently esoteric. By the time you actually reach it, you're rendered such a weirdo too few people will want to deal with you to be worth calling a "king". This is exacerbated by the fact that it's an incredibly fine line between "magic good enough to take over a kingdom" and "magic good enough to not need society", meaning a whole lot of wizard-kings are honestly just wasting their time ruling nobodies instead of becoming even better wizards.

>Even worse, you're telling me some races have innate control of these reality-altering powers, and AREN'T the dominant race of their own world?
It honestly depends on how you look at it? The titular Dragons of D&D are pretty unambiguously apex hyperpreditors to such a degree that they can single-handedly render rather sizable areas nearly immune to human habitation, for example. But for many of the same reasons they can no-sell medievalesque societies, it's a pain in the ass for little reward for them to participate in such, and so their varied degrees of regional "dominance" doesn't follow through to a pattern of rulership.

>Assuming they need food, water, shelter, security and other resources like any other living being
Again, the point at which magic is good enough to take over isn't far from not needing to.

>you cannot tell me with a straight face they share this world with ooga-boogas and the muggles aren't getting the short end of the stick.
They usually do, it's just that "the short end of the stick" actually includes "living in society".

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Magic isn't nearly as OP as it should be in any system.
So you're telling me there is this esoteric art in your world that bends the…