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<blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 2992707" data-attributes="member: 7240"><p>Well, as the "Dark Ages" refer to the first half of the Middle Ages, I don't think we're too far apart here.Yep. One has to delete some stuff from the equipment list or make it really hard to find. But I'm not suggesting that my way of playing is what the RAW expects; given the sample settings, it's pretty clear that D&D anticipates your kind of world as the default. However, the rules also make it pretty damned easy to accommodate the kind I like.That's certainly one of the factors. Still, I think some of the best fantasy worlds I have read are ones that resolutely resist the temptation to do this. Ursula Leguin's Earthsea is a world created after we saw the earth from space and remains a very compelling setting. So, clearly, technological factors have not wholly overwhelmed our capacity to think about worlds in smaller terms.<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /> Have you tracked just how many prominent game designers post to this forum. Who exactly do you think you are?I agree that DMG demographics have to be fiddled-with considerably to allow geographically isolated areas to maintian their isolation the way the game is structured.</p><p></p><p>Fortunately I don't have to worry about this because I'm not talking about a world that is objectively earth-sized with areas off the map that people don't interact with. I'm talking about Earthsea-sized worlds. How does teleportation make it harder to sustain a world that is smaller and flatter as a matter of construction?Yep. But there is no requirement for worlds to be either that big or that heterogeneous; that's simply a matter of taste.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fusangite, post: 2992707, member: 7240"] Well, as the "Dark Ages" refer to the first half of the Middle Ages, I don't think we're too far apart here.Yep. One has to delete some stuff from the equipment list or make it really hard to find. But I'm not suggesting that my way of playing is what the RAW expects; given the sample settings, it's pretty clear that D&D anticipates your kind of world as the default. However, the rules also make it pretty damned easy to accommodate the kind I like.That's certainly one of the factors. Still, I think some of the best fantasy worlds I have read are ones that resolutely resist the temptation to do this. Ursula Leguin's Earthsea is a world created after we saw the earth from space and remains a very compelling setting. So, clearly, technological factors have not wholly overwhelmed our capacity to think about worlds in smaller terms.:lol: Have you tracked just how many prominent game designers post to this forum. Who exactly do you think you are?I agree that DMG demographics have to be fiddled-with considerably to allow geographically isolated areas to maintian their isolation the way the game is structured. Fortunately I don't have to worry about this because I'm not talking about a world that is objectively earth-sized with areas off the map that people don't interact with. I'm talking about Earthsea-sized worlds. How does teleportation make it harder to sustain a world that is smaller and flatter as a matter of construction?Yep. But there is no requirement for worlds to be either that big or that heterogeneous; that's simply a matter of taste. [/QUOTE]
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