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@SJohnRoss@dice.camp @anderstallvik@dice.camp Conversely, played straight this one of the only ways I've seen the 'fantasy world in eternal tech stasis' trope work; if you assume scientific progress is hard for some reason (maybe physics/chemistry work just slightly differently) then it begins to make sense that religions, nations, and schools of magic can persist for enormous spans of time when you have people living for hundreds or thousands of years holding it together by just remembering stuff. Of course, if you then try and add 'hasn't been seen for centuries' at the same time the whole thing falls flat on its face.

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[@SJohnRoss@dice.camp](https://dice.camp/users/SJohnRoss) [@anderstallvik@dice.camp](https://dice.camp/users/anderstallvik) Conversely, played straight this one of the only ways I've seen the 'fantasy world in eternal tech stasis' trope work; if you assume scientific progress is hard for some reason (maybe physics/chemistry work just slightly differently) then it begins to make sense that religions, nations, and schools of magic can persist for enormous spans of time when you have people living for hundreds or thousands of years holding it together by just _remembering_ stuff. Of course, if you then try and add 'hasn't been seen for centuries' at the same time the whole thing falls flat on its face.