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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sixchan" data-source="post: 928746" data-attributes="member: 9189">All of the above makes perfect sense (to me, anyway).  This makes it likely that we won't see the beginnings of the Scientific revolution until the twilight of Feudalism and the rise of Mercantilism. Mercantilism depends on the lower folk mch more than Feudalism does, mainly because the peasants are needed to grow your crop, mine your material, construct your product, etc. etc.  This means that the Merchants want new mining, farming and industrial techniques to produce more, make more money, and get an edge over competition (although competition isn't so big a worry until Mercantilism becomes Capitalism).Of course, in some campaign settings, there are places already at this point.  Amn in the FR is a Republic that is Mercantile in nature (though not in practice, because they don't have any overseas colonies yet), so if there is going to be a SR, it could well be there (especially with their unfavourable attitudes to magic, which will likely tempt the intelligent people towards science).</blockquote>