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<blockquote data-quote="Henrix" data-source="post: 6594562" data-attributes="member: 3587">There's a difference between making something, and making a lot of it. I was not denying the technology (this time), but the practicality.We weren't talking about making a few glass beads, but to make enough good glass in large enough chunks so you can chip it down to use as weapons.And for that to be economical to make it common.Yes, you can make charcoal. But you need to make a lot of it. Quite a blasted lot of it, actually.And transport it to the desert. Or take the desert to it.Somehow damp forests have a tendency to not grow comfortably close to the sandy deserts*. Odd, I know.And that is just the charcoal.You need a big organisation, infrastructure, and a good reason, to get something like that working.A working economy.The industrial revolution wasn't just about technology.Many of the words in this paragraph are things that are notably lacking in the Dark Sun campaign.* And we still do not know whether the sand is good for making glass. Not all sand is very good for that. Perhaps we should have checked before we burnt the coal. By the way, did you ask if anybody was interested in all that potential glassware - perhaps they'll stick to them bone arrows, instead of one use expensive glass arrow heads?Isn't that sort of thinking precisely why Athas is such a blasted place to live?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henrix, post: 6594562, member: 3587"] There's a difference between making something, and making a lot of it. I was not denying the technology (this time), but the practicality. We weren't talking about making a few glass beads, but to make enough good glass in large enough chunks so you can chip it down to use as weapons. And for that to be economical to make it common. Yes, you can make charcoal. But you need to make a lot of it. Quite a blasted lot of it, actually. And transport it to the desert. Or take the desert to it. Somehow damp forests have a tendency to not grow comfortably close to the sandy deserts*. Odd, I know. And that is just the charcoal. You need a big organisation, infrastructure, and a good reason, to get something like that working. A working economy. The industrial revolution wasn't just about technology. Many of the words in this paragraph are things that are notably lacking in the Dark Sun campaign. * And we still do not know whether the sand is good for making glass. Not all sand is very good for that. Perhaps we should have checked before we burnt the coal. By the way, did you ask if anybody was interested in all that potential glassware - perhaps they'll stick to them bone arrows, instead of one use expensive glass arrow heads? Isn't that sort of thinking precisely why Athas is such a blasted place to live? [/QUOTE]

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