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by Autocrat
Sun Mar 02, 2014 12:08 am
Forum: Chat
Topic: The Once & Future BDI: The Experiment
Replies: 3
Views: 24548

Re: The Once & Future BDI: The Experiment

I fully endorse this experiment. BDI has stagnated far too long in a "tolken-esque" fantasy setting without any serious flexibility toward technological or scientific progression. We wouldn't have to be "steam punk" where form is over function, but it would be nice to see some ad...
by Autocrat
Wed Oct 17, 2012 11:57 pm
Forum: Questions, Suggestions & Help
Topic: The issue of firearms, airships, and steam punk.
Replies: 44
Views: 101684

Re: The issue of firearms, airships, and steam punk.

Most people saying no here stubbornly do so out of bias and fear without basis. This ad hominem doesn't belong here. The people who are arguing against firearms have given the basis, and that is "the feel of the channel was created this way, and we like it this way and not this other way."...
by Autocrat
Wed Oct 17, 2012 11:48 pm
Forum: Questions, Suggestions & Help
Topic: The issue of firearms, airships, and steam punk.
Replies: 44
Views: 101684

Re: The issue of firearms, airships, and steam punk.

While I can deal with the use of early type cannons and such, it does change the feel of the setting. It makes me think about how castle walls will soon become irrelevant, etc. Granted, this didn't happen all in an instant in history, but just knowing it's heading in that direction changes the feel...
by Autocrat
Wed Oct 17, 2012 11:24 pm
Forum: Questions, Suggestions & Help
Topic: The issue of firearms, airships, and steam punk.
Replies: 44
Views: 101684

Re: The issue of firearms, airships, and steam punk.

I'd also like to note that in Igor's channel, where guns DO exist, no one has tried to run in guns blazing. Granted, you are required to submit a character but the mere fact that people listen should be a sign of the times. People will listen. People will be reasonable. You'll get some bad eggs, but...
by Autocrat
Wed Oct 17, 2012 11:22 pm
Forum: Questions, Suggestions & Help
Topic: The issue of firearms, airships, and steam punk.
Replies: 44
Views: 101684

Re: The issue of firearms, airships, and steam punk.

But JD. Anything can be abused. Really, I think people would be more inclined to abuse MAGIC than black powder (after all, we know the limits of early firearms and we can base them on real world examples; magic can do potentially anything up to and including removing all the oxygen around a person a...
by Autocrat
Tue Oct 16, 2012 7:25 pm
Forum: Questions, Suggestions & Help
Topic: The issue of firearms, airships, and steam punk.
Replies: 44
Views: 101684

Re: The issue of firearms, airships, and steam punk.

Furthermore. If magic is truly the answer to everything, does Drache have magical lamps? Floating towers, perhaps? An island, even! Some sort of magical transport for the everyman other than horses or horses and carriages? It appears as if magic hasn't progressed, either. Or at least it hasn't fille...
by Autocrat
Tue Oct 16, 2012 7:10 pm
Forum: Questions, Suggestions & Help
Topic: The issue of firearms, airships, and steam punk.
Replies: 44
Views: 101684

Re: The issue of firearms, airships, and steam punk.

I have a dislike of firearms in a medieval fantasy setting, whether it be a high or low-magic world. It's a door I'd rather not open. You can't regulate it, you can't really enforce it either. And who's going to play out the whole loading, packing the black powder, etc? By the time you get the flin...
by Autocrat
Tue Oct 16, 2012 6:55 pm
Forum: Questions, Suggestions & Help
Topic: The issue of firearms, airships, and steam punk.
Replies: 44
Views: 101684

Re: The issue of firearms, airships, and steam punk.

I see what you're saying Nymph, but that assumption is based on the idea that every single nation on this is planet operates magic fundamentally the same. And while it has from time to time caused complications, the nature of free form and our own wishes have created an environment to accommodate ma...
by Autocrat
Tue Oct 16, 2012 12:01 pm
Forum: Questions, Suggestions & Help
Topic: The issue of firearms, airships, and steam punk.
Replies: 44
Views: 101684

Re: The issue of firearms, airships, and steam punk.

Agreed on all points. Firearms is opening the door to problems which the operators will then have to further monitor and regulate. They don't belong in the setting, period. Then I have one further proposal. At the behest of my benefactors, I propose raising me one or, dare I say, two ranks and I pe...
by Autocrat
Tue Oct 16, 2012 1:27 am
Forum: Questions, Suggestions & Help
Topic: The issue of firearms, airships, and steam punk.
Replies: 44
Views: 101684

Re: The issue of firearms, airships, and steam punk.

Also, of note, cannons are. . excuse the pun. . canonical and we've yet to have issue with them. So, really, this "ban" should be moot. There is black powder. I now just remembered that there was a military character a year or two ago who had many responsibilities but one of them was tryin...