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Super magic assisted wire drawing action? : )
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04-08-2008, 07:25 PM | #12 | |
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That last by the way is an example of one the problem of thinking to hard about this. The target is essentially a visual and storytelling style, and trying to justify logically what is and is not present, is largely an exercise in futility. You have cheap polychrome textiles because fantasy nobles have lots of fancy clothing, and clean neat dress of even the goat girls in fairy tales needs cheap cloth too. But you will never, ever see the improved spinning technology this implies, nor the chemical industry that generates the affordable soap or the color fast dyes across the entire spectrum. This sort of thing is true all around - fantasy cities are huge (though Banestorm did scale them back some) because fantasy cities always are, never mind where the food comes from. Every plot significant noble will have a castle, don't ask who built them, or why. Tobacco and coffee and whiskey are all over the place, regardless of their probable absence from the times and places of origin of Yrth's cultures. Pagan religions appear likewise because they are cool and in genre, as do ninjas, and samauri, and any number of other anachronistic details of religious practice and heraldry and.... I really, really wish that it could have just been admitted and the effort to fake up "reasons" abandoned.
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04-08-2008, 10:48 PM | #13 | |
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04-08-2008, 11:37 PM | #16 | |
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So from that I still don't see what the problem is. Unless you're viewing it as the nearly mythic Heavy Cavalry charge a la Braveheart. Trained Warhorses are just too expensive to use outside of a tournament, and the farm horses gathered for combat will refuse to charge at anything solid looking.
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04-08-2008, 11:55 PM | #17 | |
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04-09-2008, 12:00 AM | #18 | |
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04-09-2008, 12:14 AM | #20 | |
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