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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The_Universe" data-source="post: 2796654" data-attributes="member: 8944">Well, the theoretical underpinnings of the telegraph are not necessarily the same thing as the actual development of a working model. Most importantly for your game, you'd need to figure out why people would want to develop a telegraph, or a partially magical facsimile thereof. In the real world, telegraphs started popping up along with railroads, so various stops along the line could communicate and coordinate faster than the trains traveled the rails. Since, in the real world, that was best alternative for instantaneous (or near-instantaneous) communication across long distances, it was adopted and proliferated, at tremendous cost to both rail-barons and various governments. A D&D world, however, has a great many more options for transporting information quickly - none of which require the massive infrastructure that a telegraph does. Before you get too concerned about whether someone could invent a telegraph, a better question is probably whether someone would invent a telegraph.</blockquote>