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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7875870" data-attributes="member: 996">So, I take it some of the fantastic, if not overtly magical things, like typical D&D monsters that are physically impossible for a variety of reasons, are just helped along with a bit of magic?Mills making textiles go back to the very beginning of the industrial revolution, of course.  While steam engines came a little later, and internal combustion engines closer to the 20th century.Well, if magic can intentionally help along inventions the same way it (unintentionally?) helps along monsters - smoothing little stumbling blocks like cube/square laws and the like - wizard-inventors could make really bad designs just work, without too much need for refinement.  You could have things like brick dirigibles, ornithopters, perpetual motion machines, walking robots (I mean, there're already golems), whatever mad Victorian fantasy you can dream up, really. Some monsters - giants, dragons, bulettes even, maybe - could be fairly quickly wiped out as the revolution proceeds to weapons and you get cannon if not chainguns mounted on airships and flying machines.  Others, the smarter, smaller, differently-invulnerable ones, could thrive in Industrial-revolution cities.  I could imagine Shadows infesting slums, oozes living sewers rising for the occasional meal and leaving a locked-room mystery behind, plagues of rats, firebeetles, and stirges…</blockquote>