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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolf1066" data-source="post: 5388860" data-attributes="member: 88680">Yes, and I'd be one of the first to acknowledge that the one thing that saved Middle Earth is that Sauron's forces are even lazier than hobbitses.  Thing is, tho', such airborne dangers do exist in that world and can be used - imagine what merely one Dreidecker Fokker could achieve if sent back to the Early Middle Ages and put in the hands of someone suitably power-hungry.And such things are even more commonplace in D&D - flying steeds of various stripes from different mythologies, flying carpets and pretty much every party has got at least one wizard.They are world-shaping things - in any universe except the "high fantasy" ones where political power resides in nice open Motte and Bailey castles despite the prevalence of large fire-breathing flying lizards and diverse other airborne threats.IMO, it's a bit one-sided for people to argue that even primitive firearms cannot exist in such a milieu due to "the changes such technology would cause to all the pretty curtain-walled castles" and completely ignore the fact that in lands such as D&D describes, political power would have invested in underground bunkers around a thousand years before the atomic age.</blockquote>