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<blockquote data-quote="s/LaSH" data-source="post: 1031899" data-attributes="member: 6929">Y'know, I've been playing in a rather unusual D&amp;D world recently...Gunpowder has been known for a thousand years. One theocratic empire uses blades with molecule-thin edges in its quest for world domination. There's a mechanical timepiece eight stories tall, with little mechanical men who come out every hour and announce the time. Atomic theory is old news. Heck, at one point a wise man built energy weapons to defend a city, but they didn't catch on for some reason. Way further out than Eberron, isn't it?It's twelfth-century Europe.(Actual sources: China. Aztec obsidian blades. China again (centuries beforehand, too). The rest is Greece (before even gunpowder, I think).)The Incas didn't need steam engines (heck, they didn't even need the wheel!) to create a highly logistical empire of awesome size, at the exact same time that D&amp;D is supposedly set in. Llama trains aren't exactly the same thing, but give the Inca decent technology (metallurgy and the wheel) and guess what they'd do with it? Technology and culture doesn't have to follow the Western European path, folks.Eberron looks pretty cool to me, although I'll reserve judgement until I see more. I suspect there may be ideas to mine...Does that flying ship have guns, or are they just structural supports like you'd see on any late Dark Age woodwork?One final note: Wasn't this setting homebrewed fifteen years ago? (Please don't quote me on that, I don't know where I read it.) Maybe it's been retooled to seem more cohesive, I don't know. But I'm going to bet that this is pretty cool, rather than &quot;OMG R0bit dinasaurs roxxorz!!1&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="s/LaSH, post: 1031899, member: 6929"] Y'know, I've been playing in a rather unusual D&D world recently... Gunpowder has been known for a thousand years. One theocratic empire uses blades with molecule-thin edges in its quest for world domination. There's a mechanical timepiece eight stories tall, with little mechanical men who come out every hour and announce the time. Atomic theory is old news. Heck, at one point a wise man built energy weapons to defend a city, but they didn't catch on for some reason. Way further out than Eberron, isn't it? It's [b]twelfth-century Europe[/b]. (Actual sources: China. Aztec obsidian blades. China again (centuries beforehand, too). The rest is Greece (before even gunpowder, I think).) The Incas didn't need steam engines (heck, they didn't even need the wheel!) to create a highly logistical empire of awesome size, at the exact same time that D&D is supposedly set in. Llama trains aren't exactly the same thing, but give the Inca decent technology (metallurgy and the wheel) and guess what they'd do with it? Technology and culture doesn't have to follow the Western European path, folks. Eberron looks pretty cool to me, although I'll reserve judgement until I see more. I suspect there may be ideas to mine... Does that flying ship have guns, or are they just structural supports like you'd see on any late Dark Age woodwork? One final note: Wasn't this setting homebrewed [b]fifteen years ago[/b]? (Please don't quote me on that, I don't know where I read it.) Maybe it's been retooled to seem more cohesive, I don't know. But I'm going to bet that this is pretty cool, rather than "OMG R0bit dinasaurs roxxorz!!1" [/QUOTE]

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