03-28-2012, 10:24 AM | #11 |
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Re: Banestorm without technophobic wizards?
No, there's a big difference between a low tech society with magic that occasionally gets some hints about higher technology that they could develop and a high tech society that suddenly discovers that a bunch of their own grimoires have started to work. The latter society has scientists, widespread literacy and a population ten to a hundred times greater.
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03-29-2012, 09:13 AM | #12 | |
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03-29-2012, 09:36 AM | #13 |
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Re: Banestorm without technophobic wizards?
Not_another_shrubbery: That works up to TL 4 (although keep in mind that the real world didn't have Chinese engineers suddenly appear in Yorkshire, and English cannon-founders marooned in Dahomey) but the First Industrial Revolution depended on a lot of material and cultural things being in the right place at the right time. In a rational fantasy setting, its likely that it would take a long time before some Yrth culture was ready and able to build a steam engine. Fortunately, Banestorm isn't a rational fantasy setting!
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03-29-2012, 09:51 AM | #14 | |
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Would they even bother with the internal combustion engine instead of say, developing higher pressure steam boilers with a simple strengthening (or even heating) enchantment? Would they bother with small arms if they do develop industrial enchantment techniques like those of Technomancer and can crank out anti-missile amulets for entire military units? |
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03-29-2012, 10:13 AM | #15 | |
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Letting your imagination run wild is OK, of course. We are talking about a world with a different geography and a collection of major cultural drivers (magic, other sapient races, the Banestorm). |
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