Bicycles in YOUR campaign setting!

[Tonguez]

Bicycles - Absolutely Preposterous!

Skateboards however - yeah

or halflings on inline skates

and of course surfboards already exist imc...

 

[Mercule]

Only in the sort of campaign where the Tarasque wears lavendar leotards.

And tinker gnomes must die.

 

[sjmiller]

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!

 

[Gold Roger]

To weird to and useless in a fantasy world for broad distribution. I could see some excentric noble/gnome/wizard have one he drives around on though.

 

[Psychic Warrior]

I've never really thought about bikes in D&D. I guess they could exsist but would be seen a wierd and very rare.

 

[Raven Crowking]

Removed

 

[vulcan_idic]

Yes!!

The gnomes, aficionados of clockwork mechanisms and so forth as they are, in association with some summoned creatures from the plane of Mechanus who extolled the magnificent virtues of the gears, long ago hit upon the idea of such human powered contraptions - though not all of them would be recognizable as a "bicycle" to those in our world. indeed for some reason, unfathomable to most humans, the most popular design of such a vehicle actually has 5 wheels - 4 arranged beneath the seat like a wheeled footstool with a fifth extending diagonally to the front from an attached pair of handlebars which ends up looking a little, to humans of our world, like the front wheel/handlebar assembly of a custom designed hawg (the motorcycle). This particular vehicle typically has a large basket (almost to the size of what we would see as a side car of sorts) mounted to either side of the drivers seat and is used for delivering these things. These contraptions are loved by the gnomes, though they mostly know them from museums and antique contraption shows this sort of design having been passed over quite some time ago in favor of larger, more exotic, and generally magically powered rather than human powered vehicles such as the gnome submersible, the Apparatus of Kwalish, and other sorts of creations.

Edit: I, of course, meant gnome-powered rather than human-powered!

 

[Aeric]

I could see them working in Iron Kingdoms (which is essentially steampunk anyways) or possibly Eberron, but Greyhawk, FR, etc., are too medieval/Renaissance-derived for bicycles to feel right to me.

What an odd question! Now I'm curious as to what brought it up.

 

[Ralts Bloodthorne]

You know, now that you've mentioned it, the idea of the big front wheel "trikes" from the Victorian Era really sound cool.

I'd put them at more expensive than a suit of armor (I checked an old Sears Cataloque. A lever action Winchester .30-.30 was $12.55, a trike was $75.00) and have them be the toys of the nobility.

I mean, I already have rickshaws and "adventurer wagons" (Travios with wheels on the end)

Picture the Victorian Era women, dressed up, on one of the bikes.

Now, make her a half-orc.

 

[ThirdWizard]

Possibly in certain areas, though not made for general use.

Also, magically accelerated magicycles I could see in certain areas as well. I'd want one of those!