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Message: <blockquote data-quote="painandgreed" data-source="post: 2837490" data-attributes="member: 24969">There could be several reasons why technology might be somewhat advanced but not at the rate we see in our own history in the last few centuries.First, many of the great mnds of the world do not work on science and invention but on magic. Unlike science, magic is an artform and one person cannot preform the same feat another can the exact same way. A really skilled scientist leaves his works as sholder for those that follow him to stand on. A really great mage creates works that others must strife to duplicate.Second, IIRC, it was only recently (early modern times) that sceince was even considered a science. The idea that everything could be recreated and experiments  could be preformed was sort of novel. Up till then, such knowledge was considered an art like magic. I think it was fusangite(sp?) that that discussed how for most of human history, it was assumed that everything had already been invented and the anceints were wise and any new inventions were just things that had been known in the past and forgotten.Third, kill the industrial revolution and you kill a great deal of technological advancement. The industrial revolution could be avoidable by climing that the game world had no large deposits of oil or coal. Without a heat source, steam engine powered factories aren't really feasable and all industries remains cottage industries  with everything being made by hand. If you use magic to power such things and your tech is dependant on magic and magic infrastructure to the point that they can't be separated and you end up with a world like Eberron.</blockquote>

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