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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GMMichael" data-source="post: 8081816" data-attributes="member: 6685730">Fascinating tidbit about Germany's development!  Anyone also digging on that (no pun intended) should read Guns, Germs, and Steel, and I'm due for a re-read.I'm not sure I'd include the Last Jedi (assuming lewpuls meant episode VIII) in my Star Wars universe.  But -as an element of a stand-alone movie- the Holdo Maneuver had a decent reason (if not a good one) why it hadn't been used before: suicide isn't popular.  And, hopefully behind the script, navigation computers had several failsafes that prevented those types of activities...?Magic destroying walls and keeps (I don't know about entire castles) is fair, but fireballs and lightning bolts aren't the magic to do it.  Neither has much effect on rock or brick.  Water-based lifeforms though - pretty harmful!Re: one wand of fireballThis is my preferred method of magic/tech control. Most of the Matrix breaks down when you change too many rules or just one big rule, and widespread magic is a big rule. The Lord of the Rings and A Song of Ice and Fire wisely contain low amounts of magic due to the points lewpuls makes about tech. (By the way, I'm offering an excuse for LotR's non-development: technology progresses at an accelerating rate. So low tech = slow progress.)As GM, I'd try to weave an unanticipated technological consequence into a mystery or plot hook.  I wouldn't avoid it - I'd say it's intentional.  Then, while the PCs try to figure out the reason for it, I'd do the exact same thing!</blockquote>

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