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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 8535577" data-attributes="member: 6801845">I confess I know little to nothing about FR.  A civilization of elves lasting 10,000 years?  Maybe.  So take the longest contiguous empires for humans and multiply by 10 and you're looking at the Roman empire and a few others (kind of depends on what you consider contiguous).  Even then there are a lot of things outside of the control of the elves that would likely disrupt it.   But the trope gets applied to a lot of human civilizations as well which is what I was thinking of.On the other hand, it's hard to know what kind of impact magic would have on society.  FR seems to have a cataclysm on every other odd year, it seems like that would set things back significantly.  I kind of did it to my own campaign world because I wanted to shake things up.  What would society look like if the equivalent of a limited nuclear war happens even every few centuries?  Not to mention, are the gods (or other higher powers) meddling to suppress new ideas or at least redirect ideas.That, and most of our technology is cumulative.  Technologies build on older technologies which lead to other new, yet to be discovered technology.  There's no reason to believe it would work that way with magic.  Maybe 9th level spells are the pinnacle of what magic can be harnessed by humans.  But that's a separate topic. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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