Is anyone else like this?

[TempSn]

Well, i am fond of putting more tech into fantasy settings. But for some reason, i can not stand to see a race other than Humans being adept at technology. I cringe when i hear about an Elf using a gun in someone game. It just feels "wrong" to me. And i also for some odd reason feel, that Humans are the only ones "worthy" of using more advanced technology. So, am i just a weirdo? Or are there others who fell the same as me?

 

[Turjan]

Heretic ! Don't let the gnomes hear that !

 

[BigFreekinGoblinoid]

IMO Dwarves seem a natural to invent/use steam or other tech items. I would agree that the highly magical nature of elves would tend to allow them to find magical alternatives to technology though.

 

[TempSn]

I also feel that technology has greater potential than magic. I believe it can ultimately be more powerful than magic. Which might sem odd in a fantasy fan, because most seem to think that magic is greater than technology, while I think the opposite.

 

[Chain Lightning]

For me, its all about the setting really. How the races are written, their history, their cultural tendancies, etc.

For me, at least for typical D&D races.....I don't like introducing any tech above what's already in the book. I don't even like some of the early early forays into gun technology. I don't like steamtech either.

I like it for the settings they are written for, but just not in what I would term as 'typical' D&D.

Dwarves doing the whole steam engines and stuff for a Warcraft world/setting is fine with me. Gnomes in Dragonlance....I guess that's cool too.

A setting where Elves have the most tech can be appropriate if the setting was written in a particular way. I just wouldn't accept it in Greyhawk or the like.

 

[Turjan]

I also feel that technology has greater potential than magic. I believe it can ultimately be more powerful than magic.

Okay, on a more serious note than my first post, I would suggest to have a look at the Eberron thread nearby, which handles similar thoughts. The conclusion would be that magic - as it is portrayed in most fantasy - is more powerful on a personal basis, whereas technology is more powerful on the basis of the whole society.

But anyway, I have a different feeling about that topic than you express in your first post. In my homebrew, the dwarvish elfgnomes (I have merged those races to "elves" with traits of all of those races, depending on culture) just show different main foci as far as magic and technology goes compared to humans. But they are at least on par in each of these fields.

 

[TempSn]

Okay, on a more serious note than my first post, I would suggest to have a look at the Eberron thread nearby, which handles similar thoughts. The conclusion would be that magic - as it is portrayed in most fantasy - is more powerful on a personal basis, whereas technology is more powerful on the basis of the whole society.

Well, i believe technology can be powerful on both basises, individual,as well as for a society.

Also, i know this will sound weird. But i once heard someone on these forums say, in regards to the Ents in TTT. That it was nice too see nature fighting back after having been abused so much. Well, it seems lately in the real world, that it has become the "cool" thing to do to portray nature as always being abused. And that technology is a bad thing. Which is also why LOTR is not at the top of my favorite books, with its clearly anti-technology message. And that things get worse as time moves on. This directly opposes my beliefs. I know Tolkien said he disliked allegory, but it still seems like this way to me. I also feel more of a connection to the artifical, than to the natural, but i am sure everyone here is tired of my ramblings, so i will stop for now.

EDIT: Sorry for the MASSIVE multi-post.

 

[Impeesa]

I'm a bit hypocritical... my first thoughts are often the same as you ("Sounds silly") when I hear of someone else doing that in-game, and I wouldn't do it myself as a DM, but as a player I wouldn't mind much.

Aside - octuple post? Is that a new record?

--Impeesa--

 

[ConnorSB]

whoa- that IS a massive multipost. I bow before your messageboard-fu.

 

[TempSn]

whoa- that IS a massive multipost. I bow before your messageboard-fu.

Thanks, but a mod has deleted them all by now.