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<blockquote data-quote="Fiddleback" data-source="post: 6067214" data-attributes="member: 6704070"><p>I agree with all the submarine points above and I'm not really particular how it gets done, I just thought it would be an interesting idea from a 'magical engineering' standpoint. </p><p></p><p>One thing to keep in mind though, once a society develops a technology that can do a given job, it is much less likely to revert to less efficient or older or more labor intensive technology to do that same, or similar, job afterwards.</p><p></p><p>And, yes, they could do all sorts of things by magical means. Why not just conjure up a massive air bubble, sink an entire ship below the sea and go about it that way? Well, because, arguably, it isn't as cool as having smoke disappear into a magical bag of holding in order to run a steam engine in a purpose built submarine. Or, if we really want to end a war as quickly and efficiently as possible, we just teleport directly to the opposing Leader and gank him while he sleeps. Not as cool, in my mind. Not as fun to work out the development of as, say, strapping together a 3x3x3 giant cube composed completely of Gelatinous Cubes and sliding it down a hill at an enemy encampment.</p><p></p><p>Half the fun of these sorts of things, to me, is coming up with extravagant ways to do mundane things in really interesting / fun / cool ways.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fiddleback, post: 6067214, member: 6704070"] I agree with all the submarine points above and I'm not really particular how it gets done, I just thought it would be an interesting idea from a 'magical engineering' standpoint. One thing to keep in mind though, once a society develops a technology that can do a given job, it is much less likely to revert to less efficient or older or more labor intensive technology to do that same, or similar, job afterwards. And, yes, they could do all sorts of things by magical means. Why not just conjure up a massive air bubble, sink an entire ship below the sea and go about it that way? Well, because, arguably, it isn't as cool as having smoke disappear into a magical bag of holding in order to run a steam engine in a purpose built submarine. Or, if we really want to end a war as quickly and efficiently as possible, we just teleport directly to the opposing Leader and gank him while he sleeps. Not as cool, in my mind. Not as fun to work out the development of as, say, strapping together a 3x3x3 giant cube composed completely of Gelatinous Cubes and sliding it down a hill at an enemy encampment. Half the fun of these sorts of things, to me, is coming up with extravagant ways to do mundane things in really interesting / fun / cool ways. [/QUOTE]
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