Today I would like to finish my explanation of Wolfgang Baur’s fourth category of technology in his article Worlds and Technology, as found in “The Kobold Guide to Worldbuilding” from Kobold Press. He calls his final category “Technology of Life, Food, and Medicine” and while I would generally agree with Baur that ‘mundane’ technology like […]
Food The production of food would have been particularly important immediately after the fall of the Empire because during the empires reign large areas of the planet could be magically enhanced and protected to allow food from off world to grow. Once the magical infrastructure failed these food production areas would revert to their natural […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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