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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8553170" data-attributes="member: 19857">There's no indication that every gameworld had a massive prehistoric die-off that created our fossil fuel reserves. Worlds could also be iron poor compared to ours - might be a reason that the fey are more prevalent in those worlds - all of the iron might be at the surface and the core might be something else. Many worlds have apocalypses in their history that will disrupt everything. We have evidence of stable civilizations in our own history that lasted for thousands of years without much in the way of change (see the Egyptian dynasties). Our world doesn't have intelligent non-humans like dragons and mind flayers that might be working behind the scenes to keep technology under control.But also Magic is a pretty big disruptive element.&nbsp; And having active gods/demons/archfey/whatever that are constantly meddling in your world would also change things a lot.&nbsp; Pretty much any quesiton of &quot;why does the world work like the real world in some ways and not in others&quot; can be answered with &quot;for the same reason that wizards can cast fireball in the world but nobody can do it in the real world&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jer, post: 8553170, member: 19857"] There's no indication that every gameworld had a massive prehistoric die-off that created our fossil fuel reserves. Worlds could also be iron poor compared to ours - might be a reason that the fey are more prevalent in those worlds - all of the iron might be at the surface and the core might be something else. Many worlds have apocalypses in their history that will disrupt everything. We have evidence of stable civilizations in our own history that lasted for thousands of years without much in the way of change (see the Egyptian dynasties). Our world doesn't have intelligent non-humans like dragons and mind flayers that might be working behind the scenes to keep technology under control. But also Magic is a pretty big disruptive element. And having active gods/demons/archfey/whatever that are constantly meddling in your world would also change things a lot. Pretty much any quesiton of "why does the world work like the real world in some ways and not in others" can be answered with "for the same reason that wizards can cast fireball in the world but nobody can do it in the real world". [/QUOTE]

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