Medieval Stasis
Added 2021-03-14 06:02:00 +0000 UTCI feel like the setting police are secretly lurking in the background of all games, waiting for someone to break the rules...
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True, but magical solutions do tend to be a bit more... weird. At least within our party! Our magic duck based economy is going to change the world, I tell you!
Laurel Shelley-Reuss
2021-03-15 18:09:19 +0000 UTCAny sufficiently quantified magic is indistinguishable from technology.
Michael Zemancik
2021-03-15 16:33:08 +0000 UTC"You're killing the rainforest, Jen!"
Laurel Shelley-Reuss
2021-03-15 03:25:10 +0000 UTCEven if you have gas lamps, what does that mean for stealth checks? Well lit active night lifes could throw off the entire urban fantasy ecosystem.
Randall Norman Pick
2021-03-15 03:19:32 +0000 UTCI mean... the fall of Gnomeregan was inevitable. XD
Laurel Shelley-Reuss
2021-03-14 23:05:24 +0000 UTCMeanwhile, in Gnomeregan...
Nick
2021-03-14 22:13:22 +0000 UTCOooh, I never say no to Steampunk. :D
Laurel Shelley-Reuss
2021-03-14 17:05:15 +0000 UTCI will always argue that for a fantasy setting that includes magic, a lot of technology becomes obsolete. Teleportation is a thing that exists!
Laurel Shelley-Reuss
2021-03-14 17:04:51 +0000 UTCThe closest I allow the fancy players go is Steampunk-ish things, powered balloons, excessively large steam engines to cross the world, stuff like that.
2021-03-14 16:26:47 +0000 UTCI'm with the setting police on this one. You don't go from zero to internal combustion engine in one generation. I don't care if your Int score is 20 - nobody's THAT smart.
JK
2021-03-14 10:50:28 +0000 UTC
