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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BiggusGeekus" data-source="post: 18827" data-attributes="member: 1014">Renshai said:But I keep hearing that explaination for everything.Why is the Realms geography the way it is?It's fantasy!Why do the weather patterns and currents make no sense?It's fantasy!Why are there so many varient cultures jammed together with wildly divergent technological and societal development levels?It's fantasy!Why does gunpowder work in parts of the Realms timeline and not in other parts?It's fantasy!How about steam power?  The Realms has had steel and good metalurgical/manufacturing skills for, what, a thousand years now?(*)It's fantasy!Canals.  Why aren't there canals?  They speed up transport and would be easy for the average Realms country to dig.It's fantasy!Over and over and over and over.  Again, I realize that most people don't care about this kind of stuff.  I realize that people are having fun and that's all that matters.  However, some for others there are only so many times we can suspend our disbelief.  Of course by now, I am probably beating the proverbial dead horse.Biggus Geekus(*) I am guessing here.  My knoweldge of the Realms can be shakey.  But I'm pretty sure they've had steel and the ability for steam power (and things like railroads and early factories) for quite some time now.  Again, the happy Realms-ian is free to ignore this if they are having fun in their game.</blockquote>