ebberon & technological advancement through time (tippyverse tangent)

[Tetrasodium]

There is a thread about the tippytverse here (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=222007). ebberon's 3.5 setting is set somewhere around 999YK or so. If you were to stay within the 3.5/(maybe)PF rules that make the tippyverse work and advance ebberon's timeline, with an eventual tippyverse hue blending in over the centuries.... what sorts of steps do folks think it would make along the way?

[Urpriest]

If you check out Dragons of Eberron, it's got a city that has actually gone past Tippyverse and into genuine post-scarcity. It's called Io’lokar.

Given the evidence of that place, I'd say that what would usually result in a Tippyverse in other settings just results in isolated areas going Tippy and proceeding to ignore the rest of the world, where empires rise and fall as before.

You could look at Io’lokar's timeline to get a view of how the process might look.

[Tetrasodium]

If you check out Dragons of Eberron, it's got a city that has actually gone past Tippyverse and into genuine post-scarcity. It's called Io’lokar.

Given the evidence of that place, I'd say that what would usually result in a Tippyverse in other settings just results in isolated areas going Tippy and proceeding to ignore the rest of the world, where empires rise and fall as before.

You could look at Io’lokar's timeline to get a view of how the process might look.

I dunno, google is suprisingly unhelpful about details (http://aberrantgames.wikispaces.com/2.+Eberron+Lore#History-The Current Age--The Founding of Io’vakas and Io’lokar in Argonessen) on it (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TabletopGame/Eberron?from=Main.Eberron) & the timeline (http://eberron.wikia.com/wiki/Eberron_Timeline) I found nentioning it combined seem to suggest (http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/13/13848.phtml) that it's the exact opposite. I suspect thefact there isso little about it cxompared to nearly any other obscure detail about ebberon stems from the out of place feel it gives off. Like the tippyverse, ebberon abandons medieval stasis (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MedievalStasis) in favor of allowing the world to advance based on the existance of magic and its influences with that advancement. io'lokar seems to ignore that entirely with no influence on/from the rest of the world.

[Spore]

There is stuff like what happened in the mournlands and on to which clustered infrastructure is highly vulnerable against. With the (imho) inevitable recuperated knowledge from the thing that went on there, fantasy a-bombs would be possible and made city life highly risky.