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<blockquote data-quote="Nebbinchadnezzar" data-source="post: 2707659" data-attributes="member: 38529"><p>My first post. For swag, of course. </p><p></p><p>Why are gnomes inventors? In my game, the drow are the inventors. Drow have always been cool and evil and mysterious, and so my drow invent things to keep the PCs on their toes. It also ties in with that confusing thing -- are drow supposed to be elves, the dok'alfar? or are they more like trolls, the trow? I have drow with geothermal energy, and mithral turbines powered by gases rising from volcanic vents, which power factories that make all those countless drow mithril weapons.</p><p></p><p>Remember how Lolth's fortress was supposed to be a big mechanical spider that walked around the Abyss? Well, a group of drow hunters pilot adamantine spider mecha that are cloaked with permanent darkness spells and are powered by tiny portals to the negative energy plane, which makes the engines more powerful the more life there is to suck narby.</p><p></p><p>Why would inventors ever use actual electricity or oil, when they can set up perpetual motion machines next to planar gates? Why not have an airship that has a portal to the elemental plane of air? Technology doesn't have to be all metal and circuits.</p><p></p><p>Can someone tell me about the Industrial Revolution that happened on these boards? I've mostly lurked, and I see people talk about it, but I don't know where the threads are.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nebbinchadnezzar, post: 2707659, member: 38529"] My first post. For swag, of course. Why are gnomes inventors? In my game, the drow are the inventors. Drow have always been cool and evil and mysterious, and so my drow invent things to keep the PCs on their toes. It also ties in with that confusing thing -- are drow supposed to be elves, the dok'alfar? or are they more like trolls, the trow? I have drow with geothermal energy, and mithral turbines powered by gases rising from volcanic vents, which power factories that make all those countless drow mithril weapons. Remember how Lolth's fortress was supposed to be a big mechanical spider that walked around the Abyss? Well, a group of drow hunters pilot adamantine spider mecha that are cloaked with permanent darkness spells and are powered by tiny portals to the negative energy plane, which makes the engines more powerful the more life there is to suck narby. Why would inventors ever use actual electricity or oil, when they can set up perpetual motion machines next to planar gates? Why not have an airship that has a portal to the elemental plane of air? Technology doesn't have to be all metal and circuits. Can someone tell me about the Industrial Revolution that happened on these boards? I've mostly lurked, and I see people talk about it, but I don't know where the threads are. [/QUOTE]
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