Re: Change (was: (TFT) Jobs table: ...)

["Dan Tulloh" <dwtulloh61@cox.net>]

Could also be that the presence of magic reduces the need for industry.

Magic also reduces the need for other things : you don't need to learn
how to predict the weather when magic can control it; you don't need
to learn how to mine coal when magic can make things so much hotter;
etc, etc.  In this way, magic becomes a crutch that actually impedes 
the advancement of technology, even though technology can actually
make things more reliable.

I doubt this notion would be popular within the Wizard's Guild ...

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> Quoting Margaret Tapley <barnswallow@sbcglobal.net>:
>
> > By the way, does anyone else wonder why Cidri technology doesn't
> > develop any further than it has? 
>
> I put it down to 2 things:
>
> 1 We don't know when the Mnoren disappeared. It could be that Cidri is 
> still in its 'Dark Ages', and just hasn't got there yet. 
>
> 2 Because any set of roleplay rules are abstractions, and because 
> abstractions break when underlying assumptions break, it's not very 
> possible for technology to advance without breaking the TFT rules. We 
> already know that the rules don't scale very well, and high technology 
> probably breaks them further. 
>
> Neil Gilmore
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