Tale of the Twins Suns: Tech, Tone & The Future
Posted 13th January 2009 at 09:00 PM by Reveille
Tale of the Twin Suns is unique. The current present of the world has magical portals in every major city in the western lands of Seracia, plus Sunrise City on the East Coast of the continent. Basically any town of Village or larger size has such a portal network. These are today's equivalent of ariports.
[B][U]Scry Screens. [/U][/B]
The nobles and the wealthy are able to afford these. They function like TVs and also allow for tele-confrencing.
[B][U]Mass Production.[/U][/B]
It has happened. Only a handful of metropolises have the manufacturing plants, and due to the portal network, every city connected to it benefits from this. Newspapers are common and can be bought in every settlement.
[B][U]Parcel system. [/U][/B]
Every settlement in the civilized lands has a mail delivery system in place. Key buildings are whwere one can go to have your mail picked up and sent for a small fee. Ring Gates are used to allow for instantaneous delivery to a Parcel Shop anywhere else; a hub exists that allows sorting of mail to get to its proper destination.
[B][U]Arcane Firearms.[/U][/B]
Gunpowder and blackpowder will never work in the Tale; the physics of the world won't allow it. Instead firearms do exist that allow wielders of the arcane to produce spell-like effects with devices that resemble guns. The item is not considered a Magical Device and thus those that have the feats [url=http://www.enworld.org/forum/d-d-3rd-edition-house-rules/247626-tale-twin-suns-feats-talents.html#post4603382]Arcane Understanding[/url] & [url=http://www.enworld.org/forum/d-d-3rd-edition-house-rules/247626-tale-twin-suns-feats-talents.html#post4603419]Arcane Firearms Proficiency[/url] are able to use them without having to have ranks in Use Magic Device.
[B][U]Other Tech.[/U][/B]
I've yet to decide on other tech adaptations.
[B][U]Underlying Feel & Tone.[/U][/B]
The feel of the civilized lands equates to Earth's own Gothic Era. The exception to this is the Elven Empire. In the Elven lands, buildings that scrape the sky exist and they combine their magics with those of dwarves to sculpt buildings right out of the ground. The combined magics are able to create any kind of building just by extracting the needed components from deep within the earth. In this regard, the heavily colonized eleven cities might resemble the Bronx and have a New York style skyline.
[B][U]The Future.[/U][/B]
Assuming the civilized lands don't get swallowed up by the savage Scaled Kingdom and/or aren't enslaved by the scaled folk, then future ill be brighter than Earth's. Plollution will be eliminated before it can adversly affect the atmosphere due to fast developments and intermingling of science and magic and will jump ahead a generation, right over our modern era and into a steampunkish future heavily resembling Dragonstar.
[B][U]Scry Screens. [/U][/B]
The nobles and the wealthy are able to afford these. They function like TVs and also allow for tele-confrencing.
[B][U]Mass Production.[/U][/B]
It has happened. Only a handful of metropolises have the manufacturing plants, and due to the portal network, every city connected to it benefits from this. Newspapers are common and can be bought in every settlement.
[B][U]Parcel system. [/U][/B]
Every settlement in the civilized lands has a mail delivery system in place. Key buildings are whwere one can go to have your mail picked up and sent for a small fee. Ring Gates are used to allow for instantaneous delivery to a Parcel Shop anywhere else; a hub exists that allows sorting of mail to get to its proper destination.
[B][U]Arcane Firearms.[/U][/B]
Gunpowder and blackpowder will never work in the Tale; the physics of the world won't allow it. Instead firearms do exist that allow wielders of the arcane to produce spell-like effects with devices that resemble guns. The item is not considered a Magical Device and thus those that have the feats [url=http://www.enworld.org/forum/d-d-3rd-edition-house-rules/247626-tale-twin-suns-feats-talents.html#post4603382]Arcane Understanding[/url] & [url=http://www.enworld.org/forum/d-d-3rd-edition-house-rules/247626-tale-twin-suns-feats-talents.html#post4603419]Arcane Firearms Proficiency[/url] are able to use them without having to have ranks in Use Magic Device.
[B][U]Other Tech.[/U][/B]
I've yet to decide on other tech adaptations.
[B][U]Underlying Feel & Tone.[/U][/B]
The feel of the civilized lands equates to Earth's own Gothic Era. The exception to this is the Elven Empire. In the Elven lands, buildings that scrape the sky exist and they combine their magics with those of dwarves to sculpt buildings right out of the ground. The combined magics are able to create any kind of building just by extracting the needed components from deep within the earth. In this regard, the heavily colonized eleven cities might resemble the Bronx and have a New York style skyline.
[B][U]The Future.[/U][/B]
Assuming the civilized lands don't get swallowed up by the savage Scaled Kingdom and/or aren't enslaved by the scaled folk, then future ill be brighter than Earth's. Plollution will be eliminated before it can adversly affect the atmosphere due to fast developments and intermingling of science and magic and will jump ahead a generation, right over our modern era and into a steampunkish future heavily resembling Dragonstar.
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