Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5379256" data-attributes="member: 177">Could have, sure.  It was entirely possible,. nothing much stopping them.  But while I can see it as something a few folks would find nice to see, it doesn't seem to me to be anything anyone's been clamoring for.  So, they had means and opportunity, but motive seems a little thin. Yes, but you also ought to note that that time travel was immediately before the fall of a major culture and the departure of godlike beings who had been providing major support to the cultures all over the planet - they called it the Cataclysm for a reason.  Those few hundred years were spent in recovery, rather than advancement.  Go figure.I suppose if you're doing deep sociological stuff through your RPG, there's an issue.  But for the vast majority of personal stories about action-adventure heroes?  You can go pretty darned deep there.....So, here is a question for you - just because things advanced in a particular way in Earth history, does that make an alternate path unbelievable?  There's only one way for technological advancement to go?  All things proceed inevitably as we did them?  Even when we clearly have different laws of physics implied by the existence of magic in the setting?That sounds less reasonable to me than missing gunpowder in a pseudo-Medieval setting, honestly.  YMMV.</blockquote>