Bato001 at aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 09/30/2004 1:35:31 PM Eastern Standard Time, >casey at the-bat.net writes: >after a few thousand years, someone has figured out a fantastic >use > > >>>for gun powder that allows the common Teckla an equal footing with a bad >>> >>> >ass > > >>>Dragon wielding only a sword. >>> >>> >It would be very disconcerting as Teckla to have a Dragon sorcerer ignite the >gunpowder in every bullet in your magazine from 200 yards away. They have >technology- ie flash stones. Sorcery just sets up an environment where technology >is unecessary. Necessity is the mother of invention. Why bother with an >internal combustion engine, when you can teleport? > > > > If it were simply Teckla against Dragon, yes. But sorcerors could surely shield gunpowder against sorcerous intervention otherwise. Having howitzers with a 15 mile range could be useful to a Dragon army, no? Still, someone else would probably invent a sorcerous shield against overhead projectiles as soon as such things became possible. As for an IC engine, you would bother with it for bulk transport of goods. But maybe the need isn't there yet. . . and we've already seen one castle full of soldiers moving across the fields through non-Technologikal Artes (-; I'd have to agree, overall. Technology could probably help Dragaerans, but there just hasn't been enough need for anyone to think along those lines and do all the preliminary work leading up to it. For now, things are more Cool without it (-: Snarkhunter