Technological Advancement in a Post-Magic Banestorm Campaign

desorto · 04-25-2010, 05:18 AM

I have been toying with the idea for an unusual Banestorm campaign. The short version assumes that there was a troubling uptick in Banestorm appearances and some group (I haven't settled on which one yet) set out to solve the problem by adapting an ancient ritual. The result was a tremendous magical backlash that sapped much of the world's mana making no mana the norm with a few sizable pockets of low mana and maybe a small scattering of other mana levels in remote places. Obviously, this is going to wreak havoc on most societies, but my question is this:

How long do you think going from tech level 3 (4) to a steampunkish late TL5 (6) would take? It seems like the existence of underground engineers and refugees with some higher tech knowledge who escaped mindwipes should speed the process up somewhat since the problem wouldn't be waiting around for a conceptual breakthrough so much as a matter of infrastructure, political maneuvering, and locating those with the desired knowledge.

04-25-2010, 05:18 AM	#1
desorto Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Oklahoma	Technological Advancement in a Post-Magic Banestorm Campaign I have been toying with the idea for an unusual Banestorm campaign. The short version assumes that there was a troubling uptick in Banestorm appearances and some group (I haven't settled on which one yet) set out to solve the problem by adapting an ancient ritual. The result was a tremendous magical backlash that sapped much of the world's mana making no mana the norm with a few sizable pockets of low mana and maybe a small scattering of other mana levels in remote places. Obviously, this is going to wreak havoc on most societies, but my question is this: How long do you think going from tech level 3 (4) to a steampunkish late TL5 (6) would take? It seems like the existence of underground engineers and refugees with some higher tech knowledge who escaped mindwipes should speed the process up somewhat since the problem wouldn't be waiting around for a conceptual breakthrough so much as a matter of infrastructure, political maneuvering, and locating those with the desired knowledge.