commandercrud
Hero
Water and green stuff won't matter if you're in a wizard's hellscape.only if magic uses up life force otherwise it would be way greener still a messed up hellscape but with water and green stuff.
Water and green stuff won't matter if you're in a wizard's hellscape.only if magic uses up life force otherwise it would be way greener still a messed up hellscape but with water and green stuff.
so how do you imagine a wizard's hellscape?Water and green stuff won't matter if you're in a wizard's hellscape.
so we are all dead that is not a setting as everyone is dead is not a gameable setting.
Iron golems. Fireball wands. Extinction.
Ooooor it's the perfect opportunity to play that sentient fireball character you've been bugging the DM about.so we are all dead that is not a setting as everyone is dead is not a gameable setting.
I take issue with the idea that the last 2000 years are the metric to use. If you look at the 2000 years from 500BC to 1500AD you see slower technological development, and before that you had civilizations like Egypt that were stable for thousands of years. It's really in the "early modern" era - around 1500AD - that you start to see rapid development of technology. So I think the premise is flawed - measuring fantasy worlds by the standards of our era mistakes the interests and pursuits of our modern era for what people in that world would care about. Also there's no guarantee that magic would scale to industrial levels - even in Eberron where the most "magic as technology" aspects are around the big industrial magics require major magics like the Creation Forges to pull off and in a world where advances are not shared at the patent office but rather horded by guilds your advancement is going to slow a bit.What I mean is- humans, at the very least, are a very industrious and innovative people. Look how far we’ve developed in just the past 2000 years- or even the past 100! But most D&D settings seem to have multi-thousand-year histories where the world has existed at the “default” D&D setting; that is- a vaguely medieval, feudal peasant society that happens to have magic, dragons, etc. Now monsters aside, our world does not exist like that, and we don’t have fairly accessible magic.
No. A VERY small subset of humans did that. The VAST majority did not. (even the Japanese would still be a fuedal, middle age tech society) Take away that small subset and you have a planet in the Middle ages at the highest. And HUGE areas of stone age society.What I mean is- humans, at the very least, are a very industrious and innovative people. Look how far we’ve developed in just the past 2000 years- or even the past 100!
To my knowledge, nobody has made available a setting that fully works out the implications of the 5e spell list. I would be very interested to read it if someone has.