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<blockquote data-quote="Leatherhead" data-source="post: 7339030" data-attributes="member: 53176"><p>It's one part Divine Providence, one part a side effect of Magic being the Physics of the D&D world. There are gods mucking about and pulling the strings to be sure, but how the world works is inherently anti-advancement as we would know it:</p><p></p><p>On the one hand, you have to deal with a world where the Laws of Nature we take for granted and exploit in our sciences doesn't exist. For the easiest example, they don't have the Periodic Table of Elements, they have the Elemental Planes. That is a radical and fundamental disconnect on how the worlds <em>work</em>.</p><p></p><p>On the other hand, if you examine the way Magic works in D&D, it's a bit strange. Based loosely on Vancian magic, every time you use a bit of advanced magical knowledge (stuff above the cantrip level at least), it's temporarily lost in some fashion. And because Magic=Physics, every time someone learns an advanced bit of knowledge required to create an advanced bit of tech, it would be safe to assume the knowledge would be lost as a reaction to it's use, much like how a spell would be.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Leatherhead, post: 7339030, member: 53176"] It's one part Divine Providence, one part a side effect of Magic being the Physics of the D&D world. There are gods mucking about and pulling the strings to be sure, but how the world works is inherently anti-advancement as we would know it: On the one hand, you have to deal with a world where the Laws of Nature we take for granted and exploit in our sciences doesn't exist. For the easiest example, they don't have the Periodic Table of Elements, they have the Elemental Planes. That is a radical and fundamental disconnect on how the worlds [I]work[/I]. On the other hand, if you examine the way Magic works in D&D, it's a bit strange. Based loosely on Vancian magic, every time you use a bit of advanced magical knowledge (stuff above the cantrip level at least), it's temporarily lost in some fashion. And because Magic=Physics, every time someone learns an advanced bit of knowledge required to create an advanced bit of tech, it would be safe to assume the knowledge would be lost as a reaction to it's use, much like how a spell would be. [/QUOTE]
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