Timeline for Effects of Mana-based magic on Technological Development
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| Dec 13, 2018 at 17:29 | vote | accept | Evelyn Shepard | ||
| May 14, 2018 at 10:53 | answer | added | Pinback | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 14, 2018 at 6:30 | answer | added | Real Subtle | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 11, 2018 at 2:40 | history | edited | a4android | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 10, 2018 at 23:08 | answer | added | Willk | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 10, 2018 at 22:33 | answer | added | Pinion Minion | timeline score: 4 | |
| May 10, 2018 at 21:43 | comment | added | KernelOfChaos | Or... you could just go the cultural route and note that necessity is the mother of invention: if magic negates the necessity of an invention, it will not be invented. Conversely, areas where mana is absent create the need for invention in order for societies to thrive (at least, geologically speaking, in the relatively short-term). | |
| May 10, 2018 at 21:31 | review | Close votes | |||
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| May 10, 2018 at 21:31 | comment | added | Pink Sweetener | @AlexP hits the nail on the head. More plausible explanation might just be that you don't need to develop advanced technology if you have magic. What civilization is going to bother scraping crystalized horse piss off the timbers of old stables in order to manufacture gun powder when you've already got wizards that can shoot fireballs from nothingness. This is probably how technological development has worked in our own world: no one bothered with agriculture until all the large game was killed, no one bothered with food preservation until moving to cold/dry climates, etc. | |
| May 10, 2018 at 21:27 | answer | added | The Square-Cube Law | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 10, 2018 at 21:09 | comment | added | AlexP | If mixing potassium nitrate with sulfur (and charcoal, don't forget the charcoal) doesn't always result in usable gunpowder, how come that the much more intricate chemical processes commonly called life work reliably? Which is to say, there is no possible way to reconcile this world with real physics; so don't even try. After all, S. M. Stirling wrote an entire hugely successful series based on a world incompatible with real-world physics. | |
| May 10, 2018 at 20:30 | review | First posts | |||
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| May 10, 2018 at 20:28 | history | asked | Evelyn Shepard | CC BY-SA 4.0 |