Unconventional Ideas for a Medieval Fantasy Setting

[BearlyAlive]

Vampires and dinosuars fighting it out in a medieval setting

 

[longer]

Vampires and dinosuars fighting it out in a medieval setting

That's literally Warhammer fantasy with the lizardmen and vampire coast throwing hands on lustria.

 

[BearlyAlive]

That's literally Warhammer fantasy with the lizardmen and vampire coast throwing hands on lustria.

I was thinking more MTG's Ixalan-Cycle, but the idea does seem to have a few fans, yeah.

 

[CubicleHermit]

If magic is so powerful and so accessible, there is no incentive to develop firearms, isn't it?

Also, in the common "elemental magic" setting, firearms (especially anything before percussion caps) are often trivially easy to defeat with magic. If you can make it rain on demand, you've can pretty much eliminate an army of matchlocks or flintlocks. If you can ward off arrows, bullets are fundamentally the same thing.

There's also a pretty common trope (in western fantasy) of wizards' guilds or similar actively suppressing technical developments.

 

[zelotwo]

pickle rick

 

[Bartun]

Also, in the common "elemental magic" setting, firearms (especially anything before percussion caps) are often trivially easy to defeat with magic. If you can make it rain on demand, you've can pretty much eliminate an army of matchlocks or flintlocks. If you can ward off arrows, bullets are fundamentally the same thing.

There's also a pretty common trope (in western fantasy) of wizards' guilds or similar actively suppressing technical developments.

Indeed, early firearms were extremely unreliable, especially before the introduction of Percussion Caps, although still effective if well used on the battlefield. I'm aware of models of flintlocks designs specially made to resist water that was made for the navies.

 

[rain-090]

Probably the one in the signature

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