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<blockquote data-quote="Emberashh" data-source="post: 8984819" data-attributes="member: 7040941">It can also be said however that innovation doesn't normally result from purposeless diligence. As long as something works, there generally isn't a real drive to innovate, but at the same time if some newfangled thing appears that isn't terribly good, then theres little value in trying to improve it either when theres already alternatives. Firearms in fantasy settings, logically speaking, probably wouldn't ever be invented, and would probably never catch on even if they did, just because it would take a couple of centuries of constant innovation before they weren't hot garbage compared to a fireball spell or an arrow from an Elf that spent 3000 years practicing. That being said though it does introduce a pretty peculiar chance at a different intepretation, where firearms are actually superior to magic.Theres a fan theory out there for Harry Potter that suggests the Wizards are in hiding because the Muggles won some unspoken of war in the past, and the Wizards basically gaslight themselves into thinking they're the superior ones. The idea here being that the war likely happened around the time Muggles started using guns, and so Wizards, having otherwise human reflexes, couldn't keep up even with magic. But that takes us down a road in fantasy that even the world that inspired the thought doesn't really go down.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Emberashh, post: 8984819, member: 7040941"] It can also be said however that innovation doesn't normally result from purposeless diligence. As long as something works, there generally isn't a real drive to innovate, but at the same time if some newfangled thing appears that isn't terribly good, then theres little value in trying to improve it either when theres already alternatives. Firearms in fantasy settings, logically speaking, probably wouldn't ever be invented, and would probably never catch on even if they did, just because it would take a couple of centuries of constant innovation before they weren't hot garbage compared to a fireball spell or an arrow from an Elf that spent 3000 years practicing. That being said though it does introduce a pretty peculiar chance at a different intepretation, where firearms are actually superior to magic. Theres a fan theory out there for Harry Potter that suggests the Wizards are in hiding because the Muggles won some unspoken of war in the past, and the Wizards basically gaslight themselves into thinking they're the superior ones. The idea here being that the war likely happened around the time Muggles started using guns, and so Wizards, having otherwise human reflexes, couldn't keep up even with magic. But that takes us down a road in fantasy that even the world that inspired the thought doesn't really go down. [/QUOTE]

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