04-12-2019, 10:21 AM | #21 |
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Re: What is Cidri's average tech?
OMG low tech airguns ?? Ill hafta check those out
EDIT .. umm yeah napoleons guys had access to these airguns .. around 1800 they had spring steel .. its centuries away, like I said, you need to smelt steel at thousands rather than hundreds of degrees, its just not possible yet on Cidri a 15th century gun for bird shooting isnt really butch enuf for warfare Last edited by mark hill; 04-12-2019 at 10:27 AM. |
04-12-2019, 10:30 AM | #22 |
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Re: What is Cidri's average tech?
Its a lot cheaper and easier than 10,000 wizards .. and if a musketeer is killed, you just hand the gun to another peasant .. a dead wizard is irreplaceable (unless your enemy will kindly wait 20 years for you to train another)
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04-12-2019, 10:34 AM | #23 |
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Re: What is Cidri's average tech?
The historical period is far future compared to Earth, after the Mnoren events described, which involve a world-spanning empire combining low-tech worlds with worlds that have space travel and/or magic, building a playground which seems to have had thousands, millions, or billions of different intentionally low-tech non-Mnoren regions for variety and entertainment of the Mnoren, and then the Mnoren disappearance which left tech mostly medieval-or-lower (including some stone age populations) but with some magic, and a few technological artifacts, and some more modern knowledge, ideas, and cultures.
So the clothes could be anything. As for technological development since the Mnoren disappearance, it's been both less necessary due to the magic and other abundances of Cidri, and very intentionally underminded by the Wizards' Guild. |
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Re: What is Cidri's average tech?
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04-12-2019, 10:38 AM | #25 |
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Re: What is Cidri's average tech?
I always thought it was contemporary to our earth .. WE have space travel (ok its not Star Trek but .. thats the tech level I thought they meant, actually, around 1977-8 to be precise, when TFT came out)
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04-12-2019, 10:39 AM | #26 |
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Re: What is Cidri's average tech?
I'm not sure that's true... a single shot from a gunpowder weapon costs me $100, but I can apparently hire a veteran wizard mercenary for $125 per week. Seems like the wizard army is far more cost-effective to me. ;)
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04-12-2019, 10:42 AM | #27 |
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04-12-2019, 10:48 AM | #28 | |
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Obviously that gets real cheap if the Duke Dran throws very large sums of money at it .. can you say the same of wizards, that take decades to produce each? |
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04-12-2019, 10:54 AM | #29 | |
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04-12-2019, 10:57 AM | #30 |
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Re: What is Cidri's average tech?
I rather doubt that. 1 in 6 shots misfiring is really high, even for that period — and all things considered, so is the 1 in 216 chance of the gun blowing up in your face. (A probability that would earn such a gun a solid "No, thank you" from me.)
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