D&D General Tech in DnD; What should be included and how much is too much? (+)

[W'rkncacnter]

Who doesn't have fond memories of this classic cover?
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my money's on the jet fighter.

 

[Incenjucar]

A lot of the old pulp stuff was very sci-fantasy, like He-Man.

 

[Tonguez]

A lot of the old pulp stuff was very sci-fantasy, like He-Man.

now thats just rude! - hearing He-Man referred to as old pulp stuff is really funny, i'm not quite a grandpa yet!

 

[CreamCloud0]

i think i could play in a pirates of the caribbean world and have it feel like a sufficiently DnD game, but that has guns, cannons and grenades/bombs, but still manages to have it's fair share of swordplay and melee combat.

 

[Crimson Longinus]

Every setting doesn't need gunpowder, but to me the idea that gunpowder makes something feel not fantasy is really weird. Like have people not heard of Warhammer Fantasy?

 

[Tonguez]

i think i could play in a pirates of the caribbean world and have it feel like a sufficiently DnD game, but that has guns, cannons and grenades/bombs, but still manages to have it's fair share of swordplay and melee combat.

Yeah pretty much blunderbuss pistols are as essential to ‘Pirate fantasy’ as parrots, eye patches and peg-legs

 

[The Soloist]

It has never bothered me. Old D&D was full of weird stuff. DA Temple of the Frog anyone? Dying Earth is in Appendix N. Tech and D&D go hand in hand.

 

[deganawida]

A lot of the old pulp stuff was very sci-fantasy, like He-Man.

Thundarr, too!

 

[James Gasik]

It has never bothered me. Old D&D was full of weird stuff. DA Temple of the Frog anyone? Dying Earth is in Appendix N. Tech and D&D go hand in hand.

Oh man, I remember the first time I saw The City of the Gods and I was like, wait, what?

 

[The Soloist]

Oh man, I remember the first time I saw The City of the Gods and I was like, wait, what?

Dave Arneson, co-creator of D&D, was really into sci-fantasy combos. His Blackmoor, the first D&D fantasy setting, was a post-apocalyptic setting devolved into a medieval one.