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D&D Movie/TV D&D: Honor Among Thieves Open Discussion [Full Spoilers]
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Undrave
Legend
Why would they have many Druids? I’m used to depictions of 1 druid per tribe, a bit like how you have 1 priest per parish, so it didn't seem that outlandish to me.
Also, I bet glass making is an art the various races of Faerun learned from Efreetis.
DarkCrisis
Let her cook.
Yeah I'm probably not accounting for the size of the tribe she's in. Good point.
Nah, they 100% should have rangers, fighters, spell casters of all kinds. But that doesn't work for a movie very well.....
DarkCrisis
Let her cook.
It mentions they have Rangers and "Those trained in melee". They also sort of mention Arcane casters but just in a "Druids use a different kind of magic". So maybe a Wiz/Sorc is around? I'm not that far into the book though. Mostly its "Rangers!" and the lack of any kind of Druid.
Eyes of Nine
Everything's Fine
Definitely agree with your point, and it ties in with the earlier comments - this movie is filled with light; including modern windows!
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
They were probably outside the room, where the trouble (poor people) would be more likely to come from. Being scared of the lord's top advisor was probably not a big issue for any of them.
DarkCrisis
Let her cook.
I guess one thing to keep in mind is Faerun is stuck in a medieval type period. It simply can't progress technologically in certain areas (because certain elements work differently and/or the gods simply don't allow it). They've had the same tech level for hundreds if not thousands of years. So, while electric lights aren't invented, glass windows for common use probably is.
Weirdly enough you would think an old school printing press could be invented but scribes still exist and books are still considered rare.
But its just a game....
Eyes of Nine
Everything's Fine
Yeah, if one starts to think about the speed of progress in the past 250 years or so in technology compared to Faerun, here's one way to think of it... (hugely simplified, but possible to use in game)
The speed of our earth's human progress is roughly in inverse proportion to the quantity of fauna (and to a lesser degree, flora) that can kill us. In other words, as we as a species can settle in and not worry about being eaten or dying in other ways, we can imagine ways to have a better world and then actually create that. Dark mode:
What's still holding us back from ultimate human apotheosis is that there is one animal on the planet that's pretty darn good at killing humans, and that's other humans.
Faerun and the D&D world writ large is NO WAY safe for everyone on a day to day basis from creatures who can eat us. In fact much the opposite. So perhaps that's why Faerunian tech has not progressed - people are still trying to survive in some way
Sorry, this post is WAAAY off topic, but interesting to think about nonetheless
OB1
Jedi Master
@Eyes of Nine very insightful. I'd add that progress comes from solving for specific problems that an individual or culture is facing, using the most efficient tools available. In a world of magic, those tools are going to have a profound effect on how that evolution happens, to say nothing of the effect of having uber powerful overwatchers guiding (meddling) in those solutions. The world of Faerun is not just our medieval world + magic, it's one that has evolved on it's own because of the presence of magic and the gods (including cycles of apocalypse and renewal due to those forces).
