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Old 12-29-2016, 11:13 AM   #28
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Default Re: GURPS Discworld - Reviews

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Originally Posted by whswhs View Post
It seems to me that technological progress and its social impact has been a major theme of the later books.
Yep. In practical game terms, things like "A campaign based on the early books should be TL3, later books are TL4", "My character is very backwoods, has a level of low TL, and so finds stagecoaches weird and will have trouble learning to help crew this modern ship", "Dr. Lawn has managed to learn medical skills at TL4 or better when every other doctor in Ankh-Morpork seems to be working at TL2", and "How the heck did Urn of Ephebe pick up three levels of Cutting-Edge Training anyway?" are real and significant considerations.
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