Corbert
Explorer
I've seen steam trains, guns, and in another thread (http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=160405) the DM is wanting to use the telegraph. What have you used or come across in a standard D&D campaign?
What technology do you use in your campaign?
Man in the Funny Hat
Hero
Trains, guns, and ICBM silos.
dvvega
Explorer
In my homebrew world it would depend on the "age" players are in.
However for the general fantasy/D&D time period, powder weapons are the best technology they have (flint lock pistols etc - Renaissance type).
Steam power is limited to small experimental projects at this time.
Of course there is much more advanced technology out there, however it needs to be discovered, wrested from its controllers, and then learnt.
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However for the general fantasy/D&D time period, powder weapons are the best technology they have (flint lock pistols etc - Renaissance type).
Steam power is limited to small experimental projects at this time.
Of course there is much more advanced technology out there, however it needs to be discovered, wrested from its controllers, and then learnt.
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I'm A Banana
Potassium-Rich
Robots with lazers and future ninjas with lightsabers flying in on spaceships run by alien pirates, crashlanding on islands with dinosaurs and gun-wielding samurai.
W0rd.
W0rd.
painandgreed
First Post
Human civilizations runs medieval while elves and dwarves run renaissance or later. The demi-humans don't have guns but they do have a superior (and well guarded) understanding of mathmatics, physics, metalurgy, and engineering. One tech that is significantly advanced for all races is medicine. The workings of the body and germ theory are fairly well known and a person with decent healing skill being equivilant to a modern EMT but actual medical surgical knowledge and ability is less due to a reliance on magic. A big help has been divination magic which prevents most major scientific misunderstandings. Say a plague hits, instead of kills cats, dogs or whatever, it is a game of twenty questions with the gods till they figure out the cause is a disease carried by fleas and rats a week or two later.
Viktyr Gehrig
First Post
Normally, I stick to around the 1300s, though my current project is a mix of 19th and early 20th century tech.
Zappo
Explorer
Planescape campaign: mostly renaissance; gunpowder is very rare and most people don't know about it.
Warcraft campaign: steampunk-ish, with steam-powered giant robots and the like. However, "advanced" technological devices are notoriously unreliable and require specialized skills to operate, so few people use them on any large scale. Guns and crude explosives are common, though.
Warcraft campaign: steampunk-ish, with steam-powered giant robots and the like. However, "advanced" technological devices are notoriously unreliable and require specialized skills to operate, so few people use them on any large scale. Guns and crude explosives are common, though.
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