Forgotten Realms tech level question (and a bit about bg3) /u/Smooth-Protection46 DnD: Roll for Initiative!

So, for me and most of my fellow dms forgotten realms/sword coast seemed as mostly low-technological, medieval-esque setting. All steampunky devices are either rare and practically useless (like gnomish toys) or extremely rare and probably you won’t see it on the sword coast (like kwalish apparatus or demon engines). Not mentioning that half of the world is populated by neolithic-cosplaying tribal guys (uthgardt, wood elves, goblins, ect) for wich even a chainmail would be a marvel of engineering. At least, that were the things at start of 5e.

But then we got pretty heavy load of mechanical monsters in Mordenkainen’s tome, plus news that all artificers are now canon for sword coast adventures.

And then we got baldur’s gate 3 video game. Wich I played, and I haven’t noticed discrepancies with current lore in general, but amount of tech stuff surpised me. I mean – whismical machinery props in routine alchemy lab, mentions of factories in books and letters, a demonic artificial heart, a whole mechanised arcane tower, a freakin’ mecha guarding city gates, and so on and so forth.

And I’m not against it – althought imho such things look more holistically in other worlds, like ebberon or ravenloft, but still. I’m just confused what level and prevalence of technologies is now considered canon (somewhat) for sword coast. Is depiction shown in bg3 accurate? Do we have industrialised cities in forgotten realms? Are automatons kinda common here now? What about firearms, in that case?

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​r/DnD So, for me and most of my fellow dms forgotten realms/sword coast seemed as mostly low-technological, medieval-esque setting. All steampunky devices are either rare and practically useless (like gnomish toys) or extremely rare and probably you won’t see it on the sword coast (like kwalish apparatus or demon engines). Not mentioning that half of the world is populated by neolithic-cosplaying tribal guys (uthgardt, wood elves, goblins, ect) for wich even a chainmail would be a marvel of engineering. At least, that were the things at start of 5e. But then we got pretty heavy load of mechanical monsters in Mordenkainen’s tome, plus news that all artificers are now canon for sword coast adventures. And then we got baldur’s gate 3 video game. Wich I played, and I haven’t noticed discrepancies with current lore in general, but amount of tech stuff surpised me. I mean – whismical machinery props in routine alchemy lab, mentions of factories in books and letters, a demonic artificial heart, a whole mechanised arcane tower, a freakin’ mecha guarding city gates, and so on and so forth. And I’m not against it – althought imho such things look more holistically in other worlds, like ebberon or ravenloft, but still. I’m just confused what level and prevalence of technologies is now considered canon (somewhat) for sword coast. Is depiction shown in bg3 accurate? Do we have industrialised cities in forgotten realms? Are automatons kinda common here now? What about firearms, in that case? submitted by /u/Smooth-Protection46 [link] [comments] 

So, for me and most of my fellow dms forgotten realms/sword coast seemed as mostly low-technological, medieval-esque setting. All steampunky devices are either rare and practically useless (like gnomish toys) or extremely rare and probably you won’t see it on the sword coast (like kwalish apparatus or demon engines). Not mentioning that half of the world is populated by neolithic-cosplaying tribal guys (uthgardt, wood elves, goblins, ect) for wich even a chainmail would be a marvel of engineering. At least, that were the things at start of 5e.

But then we got pretty heavy load of mechanical monsters in Mordenkainen’s tome, plus news that all artificers are now canon for sword coast adventures.

And then we got baldur’s gate 3 video game. Wich I played, and I haven’t noticed discrepancies with current lore in general, but amount of tech stuff surpised me. I mean – whismical machinery props in routine alchemy lab, mentions of factories in books and letters, a demonic artificial heart, a whole mechanised arcane tower, a freakin’ mecha guarding city gates, and so on and so forth.

And I’m not against it – althought imho such things look more holistically in other worlds, like ebberon or ravenloft, but still. I’m just confused what level and prevalence of technologies is now considered canon (somewhat) for sword coast. Is depiction shown in bg3 accurate? Do we have industrialised cities in forgotten realms? Are automatons kinda common here now? What about firearms, in that case?

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