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<blockquote data-quote="ThirdWizard" data-source="post: 1031851" data-attributes="member: 12037">&quot;Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.&quot; - Arthur C. ClarkBut I suppose the opposite is true. Any magic is indistinguishable from sufficiently advanced technology. I can see where some people are coming from. Personally, I don't like technology in my games, and whether a train is powered by magic or powered by steam makes little difference to me. I don't know, whenever a friend of mine tells me about his Sunday night games where his gnome bought himself a flying car, I can't help but groan and tell him I don't really want to hear about it.I know there's a market for this. I know several people who might start playing D&amp;D to play this setting, and I like that. I hope it brings people to D&amp;D who previously didn't play, because I think D&amp;D has grown into a very good game that many people sell short because of previous incarnations (read 2nd edition).I have to say that its good that this setting isn't some cookie cutter of a previously released campaign setting, because it might open the doors to other settings that I will be more interested in if it does well. So good luck to WotC in thier endevours.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ThirdWizard, post: 1031851, member: 12037"] "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clark But I suppose the opposite is true. Any magic is indistinguishable from sufficiently advanced technology. I can see where some people are coming from. Personally, I don't like technology in my games, and whether a train is powered by magic or powered by steam makes little difference to me. I don't know, whenever a friend of mine tells me about his Sunday night games where his gnome bought himself a flying car, I can't help but groan and tell him I don't really want to hear about it. I know there's a market for this. I know several people who might start playing D&D to play this setting, and I like that. I hope it brings people to D&D who previously didn't play, because I think D&D has grown into a very good game that many people sell short because of previous incarnations (read 2nd edition). I have to say that its good that this setting isn't some cookie cutter of a previously released campaign setting, because it might open the doors to other settings that I will be more interested in if it does well. So good luck to WotC in thier endevours. [/QUOTE]

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