>fantasy setting
>500 years pass
>it's still medieval times
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>fantasy setting. >500 years pass. >it's still medieval times
>fantasy setting
>500 years pass
>it's still medieval times
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The medieval period lasted for about 1,000 years.
the curch is responsible for the dark ages. which is why those games mostly have god and the church as a villain.
The Church literally created the scientific method, universities, and preserved ancient greek and roman texts. If not for the Church, we'd be a shithole like Africa or Asia.
The medieval church in general wasn't nearly as superstitious as the renaissance thinkers and then the enlightenment philosophers later memed it into being seen as.
For example the Medieval Catholic church
already explicitly denied existence of magic, and inquisition literally did not give a single frick about allegations of witchcraft and were just concerned with heresy, blasphemy and apostasy. Malleus Maleficarum was officially condemned by both the papacy and the inquisition as made up superstitious bullshit.
Still, the church could not really do much to prevent secular authorities and local clergymen from going after local village idiots and peasants just didn't stop believing in supernatural folklore despite Rome declaring them fake and gay. Church did believe in demonic possession, but their idea of demons was pretty boring and they were mostly seen as cause of mental illness, sudden violence and antisocial behavior.
>The Church literally created the scientific method
lol no.
>the dark ages
You don't know what this means.
>fantasy setting
years pass
>it's still medieval times
don't need no fricking steam if you got magic
Arcanum was good
technological evolution in a fantasy setting is fricking cool
sad that so few do it
The kinds of fans that love fantasy, typically aren't interested in things like magitek or steampunk/cyberpunk shit.
I think its easier to just accept that in a world with magic, there is very little desire to persue mechanical technology. Why invest a bunch of time developing guns and canons when magic already exists
ignoring my annoyance of settings where magic is easily accessible which is extremely fricking gay, I'd imagine the existence of dragons and shit would absolutely push people into developing technology and machines of various types
Sometimes it's because magic is the work of daemons and your head might explode using it, and your general population is still uneducated peasants that barely know how to swing a hoe let a lone a sword
>the world is under the grip of a dark council of evil wizards. Everyone in power is an evil wizard, nothing can stop them with there mastery of magic…
>until our young hero invents the “firearm”.
I like it
>young hero's crazy uncle accidently invents gunpowder trying to make immortality slop
>in a single move he grants humanity the power to fight the wizard council and kills himself
>fantasy setting
>dragons and goblins and other dangerous creatures live within 30 second stroll from town
>everyone is ok
they respawn
If you think about it Roman times weren't really that different than pre renaissance/Columbus era. And if you look at ancient Greece and the bronze age the only real differences in culture is the use of iron.
Fantasy settings tend to have magic, the existence of which would probably moron the development of technology. Who cares about germ theory when you can cast heal? Or inventing the automobile when you can take a magic portal to another city?
My fantasy game will have magic and guns!
What is the incentive for technological progress if there is magic?
A lot of progress has been driven by necessity, like if Ottoman conquests didn't cut Europe off from easy access to Asian trade, colonialism would not have happened at least the way it did because there would have been no good reasons to explore.
>Fantasy setting
>modern lights, cars, streets, buildings, stores
>everyone still dresses like a 16th century peasant
>everyone still fights with swords.
Is there a name for this Final Fantasy exclusive setting?
This is most contemporary fantasy now if you actually engaged with fantasy outside of shitposting about video games.
>if you actually engaged with fantasy
Contemporary fantasy now is based around trying to tongue RR Martin's butthole as hard as it can, even Final Fantasy fell for the Game of Thrones meme.
Which is odd as game of thrones is literally the war of the roses spread out for longer and made fantastical
>this thing is specific to final fantasy
>contemporary fantasy outside of video games does this now
>ah but consider this: final fantasy
good talk.
Don't forget
>everyone speaks like and has the worldview and ethics of a 21st century liberal American, except for the evil empire
We would still live in medieval times if Anglo didn't have so many colonies to sell goods made by literally anglo slaves. And lords were so greedy that they decided slave labor wasn't cheap enough
>fantasy setting
>dragons giants demons and all types of dangerous types of monsters
>humans are still top dogs
>1800 BC, Eastern Mediterranean
>flourishing civilizations with advanced trade, writing, bronze working, and complex state structure
>1300 BC
>writing is literally a forgotten at
>100 AD, Western Mediterranean
>flourishing arts and engineering, extensive urbanization, literal wonders like the Pantheon and the Colosseum are built just for the lulz
>600 AD
>most people outside the clergy, even monarchs and the nobility, can't read and write. Glassmaking is a lost art and people literally recycle centuries-old glass. Some shantytown of 500 people is considered a major city.
>1000 AD, the Yucatan peninsula
>unique writing system, advanced astronomy and calendar, elaborate temples and stellae erected, flourishing trade and complex feudal relationships between various city-states
>1500 AD, the Yucatan peninsula
>no writing and long calendar, entire areas depopulated outside of a few urban centers like Chichen Itza
Man it's going to suck when society collapses yet again.
>fantasy setting
>medieval times
>they search ancient ruins for relics
>they find guns
>real world setting
years of history
>cars only show up 9900 years into it