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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 9715134" data-attributes="member: 6915329">Don't see why you'd need faux-Chinese when you have dwarfs, gnomes, and dozens of other sentient species who have a reason to blow things up and a tendency to experiment with materials and chemicals. And even if they never do it, humans have a tendency to blow things up and experiment with materials and chemicals. Honestly, I think that if you ever need to come up with racial traits for human beyond a generic "we're good at everything and so get a small bonus to stats/skills," blowing stuff up and experimenting with stuff we probably shouldn't should be our species' hat. Human like big boom.Well, in the real world, the more threats there are, the more people focus on creating tools to deal with those threats... like newer, better weapons. Unless you go for a post-apocalypse feel. But if you have people who have money (nobility/royalty), then they will get people to make newer, better, and more deadly instruments of war and means of protection, and that will lead to advancements in other fields as well.(Now I want to watch Connections again.)Problem here is that someone will eventually figure out how to make versions that don't require magic. While Eberron is not my favorite setting, it's honestly the most logical. D&D magic is not only repeatable but reliable. A spell will always work, and always in the same way (with the very rare exception of spells like teleport). There's no rolls to cast the spells and no problems with miscasts causing problems (except for wild mages, assuming that the edition uses them), and there are no limitations as to who can cast, beyond, perhaps, a minimal Int score or (ugh) racial limitations.So logically, unless the GM introduces something into the setting that seriously limits spellcasting in some way (either rules or some sort of in-fiction limitation), every D&D setting should be magitech. And if the GM does introduce something that limits casting, then there should be higher levels of real-world tech. Including guns. (Or you can just go "%&*! logic" and simply not have them in the world. And if a player wants to create them, well, they're playing with explosives and have to roll really well not not die while doing it. Or simply set your game in the stone or bronze ages, not the iron/medieval/renaissance periods that are typical.)In thinking about it, it might be better to simply have magic be the real-world equivalent of electronics, not mechanics--let the nonmagical folk create their tech, but they'll be building with clockworks and steam and primitive internal combustion while the wizards have computers with AI (bound spirit) and holographic (illusory) interface that let them hack the world, Mage: the Ascension style. At least that way, if someone magic-less mortal tries to reverse engineer such a device, they'll release the spirits and probably get killed by them in the process.</blockquote>

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