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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadence" data-source="post: 8059237" data-attributes="member: 6701124">Did Da Vinci care about actually building them? Did he put design flaws intentionally in some plans? Did ADHD derail some of them?Anyway, is 5e the version where the PCs supposedly have nothing to spend their gold on?  A decent amount of money feels like it can usually buy someone to humor you and build the needed parts.  And once you start turning out the first mass printed materials, for example, it feels like a bit more gold could ensure they get some notice.  If the players thought ahead, they might even have had their characters take appropriate security arrangements in advance so that they weren't quickly taken out by scribe-guild's hired assassins (are there no nobles who would be impressed by a demonstration and offer protection? are the characters not powerful enough themselves?)   The DM could always have some priests have visions of chaos and either destroy the parts early on or have the nobility outlaw printing (in every kingdom?), but that feels a bit more petulant to me and I'd rather just talk to the players out of game.</blockquote>