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Originally Posted by maximara
Except that the real world and most game worlds don't have a TL that is uniform across the board. That is is what Basic Set and Fantasy are telling us and there is really a easy shorthand: simply use the first letter of each of the four catagories. So c1000 Western Europe was for the most part TL3 MTL1. (M of course being Medicine)
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Why doesn't the real world have a TL that's uniform across the board, or nearly so? It is as logical to say that c1000 WE was MTL3 as MTL1, as they are both completely arbitrary. One, however, requires big lists of technologies and TLs, and the other requires going "Okay, this is like c1000 WE, so everything is TL3."
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The fact of the matter is the first years of the atomic age were more TL(6+1) than 'true' TL7.
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TL (x+1) was never designed for real world use; it was designed, IIRC, for the Steampunk book, and was explicitly for alternate universes. It's needless complexity for the real world, and it's the wrong tool, to boot; TL (x+1) is by definition off the RL trail of technologies. If you don't want the nuke to be TL6 and don't want it to be TL7, you need to make a TL 6.5 and place it there.
A TL(6+1) nuke would be a chemical bomb launched from a Zepplin or a huge Paris gun. A TL (6+1) computer would be a mechano-electronic form of the Difference Engine, not an early vacuum tube computer.