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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kid Charlemagne" data-source="post: 1320652" data-attributes="member: 93">One thing that I used to figure out how the races in my world viewed tech is to set up a rudimentary technology timeline - so in my world, gunpowder exists, but it was only discovered 100 years ago.  Guns are in use, but different races use or don't use them based on various factors:Gnomes are innovators and inventors; they discovered gunpowder and use it.  They're open to technological innovations.Humans will use whatever makes a good tool.  Amusingly enough, orcs have pretty much the same philosophy.Dwarves are very tradition-bound, but also very technical.  They're very good with technology, but tend to be late at adopting it.Elves, due to their long lives, tend to stick with the things they learned when they were young.  It's often said that the biggest reason guns won out over bows is because of the long time it takes to train bowmen; elves don't have that problem, as they've got hundreds of years to perfect their skill.  A new technology has to clearly beat an old one for it to be of use to them.  For example, I'm sure the elves picked up on stirrups very quickly; guns may take a couple more hundred years, in my world.</blockquote>