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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Azure Trance" data-source="post: 394281" data-attributes="member: 372">My opinion is a Victorian style era. I think of it as a time when Technology is still advanced enough past the middle ages, but not something that's current and modern like what we know of today.Nothing against it, I think. It just irks me in a Shadowrun Elf/Dwarf/Human/Orc with guns and cyberwar type war, which if I wanted I would play SR, not D&D.I've just been tinkering with a setting, and I figure this:The most important technology in my victorian style era would have firearms (flintlocks, as a wild guess), steam engines (and as a result, railroads), and electricity (which powers telegraphs). So the biggest changes would be that people would have access to powerful firearms, mass transportation, and instant communication across continents.None of it to me seems unbalancing though. Firearms, while powerful, wouldn't be a commonplace sight. The Dwarves, who mine the 'gunpowder,' are also the worlds best gunsmiths. (So if you want an exceptional rifle, at least you know who has a reputation for making them). Those would at least severely limit the amount of firearms in the world. I don't think steam engines by itself is bad either - they would have more of a background role for the characters; same with the telegraph.It's not a technology vs magic world - magic would still rule supreme. Shield would block bullets, and no gun can have the same effect as disintegrate. But if you combine the two, you get the optimal effect - steam-powered war golems like Calibretto from BattleChasers! (Hmmmzt). Or enchanted rifles with ammunition that can actually harm magical creatures (Jacketed Hollow Point? Dargonhide Armor Piercing?), magically powered railroads (for the rich ones who don't need coal or wood). etc...I just believe that with the added factor of technology it would create something new ... in the newspaper, gnomish railroads have a pricewar with the human railroads, stocks are down, steel is in great demand, the creation of the indutrial underclass - marxism could be a popular underground belief - , gas lights in the city at night, or - perhaps coolest - a dwarven tower with a gatling gun firing into the orcish horde to prevent them from overrunning the mountain pass.</blockquote>

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