07-28-2015, 03:55 AM | #61 | |
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Re: Do you have a favorite TL?
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I could, of course, wax poetic about all four ultra-tech-levels, as each has something going for it, but I had to pick one, so I picked TL 10.
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07-28-2015, 07:03 AM | #62 |
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Re: Do you have a favorite TL?
Most stories it is ultimately derived from were written in the Renaissance, or later, without a lot of concern for historical detail. So TL4 or even early TL5 stuff is often right there in the source material. Nobody blinks if the villain's private libraries of paper books has glazed windows big enough for the hero to open and climb through.
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07-28-2015, 08:01 AM | #63 |
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Re: Do you have a favorite TL?
My preferences are probably something like TL 3+1^ for Fantasy, TL 9+1^ for Space Opera-ish science fiction. The Fantasy one is basically that there's TL 4 (and occasionally a bit of TL 5) knowledge but manufacturing is mostly restricted to TL 3 without a little magical assistance. For example, an armorer without any access to magic could create bronze plate with sliding rivets or steel brigandine (brigandine requires TL 4 knowledge, but should be doable with TL 3 manufacturing), but iron/steel plate or hardened steel would require a bit of magical assistance. The Space Opera one is probably best described as "mostly safetech TL 9, with some limited TL 10, 11, and ^ when the setting really needs it."
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07-28-2015, 08:02 AM | #64 |
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Re: Do you have a favorite TL?
The rapier was introduced during the penacle of plate armor: the early 16th century. You'd be unlikely to see them together, for the same reason you aren't likely to see an Abrams and a Ferrari in the same parking lot.
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07-28-2015, 09:22 AM | #65 | |
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Also, most iconic naval battle without cannon: Magical flying wings + bruiser who could throw elemental punches of explosive death = Bombardment flyby. All the while the other PCs lobbed burning pitch from catapults and prepared a boarding party. It was pretty sweet. Other naval battles included capturing a frost wyrm and making it part of the figurehead of the ship and using its frost breath to blast other ships, fighting seaserpents with sword, pike, and fist, and getting a slorn to blaze the topsails of raiding vessels. |
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07-28-2015, 09:44 AM | #66 | |
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