Technology, the Magic of War (or Survival)

Today I will discuss the third of Wolfgang Baur’s categories of technology from his article Worlds and Technology as found in Kobold Press’s “The Kobold Guide to Worldbuilding”. He titles this category “Technology of Warfare”, and while there certainly are armed conflicts between some of the larger factions in my setting these technologies would be […]

Technology, the Magic of Words

Today I would like to look at the second of four main categories of technology which Wolfgang Baur talks about in his article Worlds and Technology as published in Kobold Press’s “The Kobold Guide to Worldbuilding” which he describes as “Technology of Knowledge: Literacy and Printing”. Let us begin by discussing how writing differs between […]

Technology, the Magic of Movement

In Worlds and Technology by Wolfgang Baur published in Kobold Press’s “The Kobold Guide to Worldbuilding” he lists four main categories of technology to consider when constructing a setting: “Technologies of motion: transportation and communication” (Movement) “Technology of Knowledge: Literacy and Printing” (Knowledge) “Technology of Warfare” (War) and “Technology of Life, Food, and Medicine” (Living […]