Bicycles in YOUR campaign setting!

[Particle_Man]

The roads would be too crappy for biking to be acceptable as an alternative to horses.

 

[ephemeron]

Well, considering the fact that the roads in my world tend to be a bit worse than those in this world when bicycles were invented (i.e., little more than dirt ruts), I doubt they will come into use any time soon. Even in the cities it is unlikely. The cobblestones would be a killer!

"Dirt ruts" pretty well describes the roads people rode early bicycles on -- in fact, a lot of road improvements and paving were actually spurred on by cyclists who wanted a smoother ride.

 

[Shadowslayer]

Heh....a pack of ravening kobolds cresting the hilltop on their Big Wheels. Wearing colors.

Dig it.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Since Praemal has hot air balloons, heliographs (IMC), guns, clocks, glockenspiels (IMC) and so on, a bicycle's not too hard to imagine someone inventing. The only prohibition would be finding places smooth enough to ride it. IMC, the Imperial roads are similar to ancient Roman ones, so they're pretty good, but geographically limited and maintenance mostly happens around Tarsis and the Prustan Peninsula.

EDIT: OK, I've pretty much decided that a member of the Shuul will invent a bicycle in my Ptolus game, although he'll likely have the only one around. The notion of a crazy masked inventor riding blissfully up and down a cobblestone road on a penny-farthing bike makes me chuckle, and fits in with the weirdness of the Shuul.

 

[Raven Crowking]

Removed

 

[Ed_Laprade]

I voted No Way! It not only doesn't feel sufficiently fantasy-like to me, but they require good tires and decent roads to become practical for the masses. (And mass production methods too, probably.)

 

[smootrk]

Bicycles might be a little weird for my concept of a campaign but I would use rickshaw transports, especially in the more metropolitan areas where horses would be harder to manage.

 

[Gold Roger]

I can see it now- Pirates riding bicycles enchanted with waterwalking.

Not really, but I do think bicycles would be most likely enchanted as some kind of wondrous item.

 

[Conaill]

I would vote for something in between "No way!" and "weird and exotic". I.e. I could easily conceive of a tinker gnome inventing a bicycle in a D&D setting, but I don't think there would ever be more than one or two bicycles in the entire world.

 

[frankthedm]

Without reliable rubber bikes will be uncozy to ride. A few nut cases might ride them, but they won't catch on that well.

Well, considering the fact that the roads in my world tend to be a bit worse than those in this world when bicycles were invented (i.e., little more than dirt ruts), I doubt they will come into use any time soon. Even in the cities it is unlikely. The cobblestones would be a killer!

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