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Old 02-20-2006, 09:48 PM   #3
sir_pudding
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Default Re: Low-Tech vs Fantasy-Tech

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Originally Posted by Luther
Oh My Good Lord, No!
You tell 'em!

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mithril? It's sooooo setting dependent!
Didn't Stoddard say that the reason he included orichalcum in Fantasy was to have a more generic/mythic version of mithral? Besides isn't mithral part of the Tolkien estate?

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I want solid information on economy, agriculture, society and technology.
This is where I'm confused. You could write 240 pages on the gathering patterns of stone-age tribes, or the development of the guild system or social organization in the Roman Empire. I think Hal has written 240 pages on the economics of medievil villages in this forum alone! Really I don't see how there is a shortage of this kind of useful information.
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Also mixing real world and fantasy will inevitably change the tone of the book, sort of D&Desque compendium -- with virtually no hope to get armors made right.
If this version of Low-Tech does not finally fix the armor weights, I predict there is going to be one seriously PO'd Dan Howard.
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