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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nyaricus" data-source="post: 3112539" data-attributes="member: 35678">I respectfully disagree.That's not true. Not everyone is a Wizard or Cleric and can create food and water, and for those who aren't, need to get food from somewhere. Faerun is quite a bit bigger than Earth, and likely has a larger population, and that means you need a bunch of argricultural technology and a vast market system to feed everyone and what not. And that's just geographic/population considerations for food.There's also the fact that not everyone is a mage, thus a warrior needs his sword to be an effective tool, and his armour to resist blows traded with others of his ilk. Sure, Faerun has more mages than standard D&D (according to the changes to the population tables that [the FRCS book??] gives). But the fact is that the only reason technology is widespread is because people feel they need it.Take plate armour. It's widespread in Faerun (RoF states this as a fact for many cultures - that any of the standard PHB items can be found within X culture/race, plate armour being one of those items) and the only reason it would be if there was a need for it - that would be to protect the wearer from the heavy blows of an effective weapon. And that weapon would only be there because it was effective against the previous generation of armour. And so on and so forth.Mages do not need to rely on technology stuff so much because they are an exception to our (Earth's) reality. Sure, a larger exception than normal ever by the DMG population tables, but an exception nonetheless.I wouldn't call that true, again. The common folk who feed everyone still need it, the fighter still needs it, the rogue still needs it. Heck, just look at all the crazy types of alternate armours and whatnot in some of the FR suppliments, and you'll see an amazing amount of technology that is realms-specific and even surpasses our own abilities IRL.In any case, I really don't think that technology in the Realms is any slower than on earths - they've just had many more setbacks over the ages and aeons.cheers,--N</blockquote>

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