Oh I didn’t know that, I thought they were locked to the server like Lemmy. Ok then I’ll just use masdodon.social for now until I know more about the rest.

He’s a wizard, the revolver is actually firing shrunken 16 inch HE shells.

HOW DO YOU YELL WITHOUT CAPSLOCK?

Something kinda in the same vein, in the book series Red Rising, hanging people on Mars is ineffective because of the low gravity (not enough force to snap the neck), so someone has to go up and pull on the legs of the executed person to kill them.

It doesn’t reduce the surface area though, the butt stock is still the same size.

Good point, I didn’t think about the smoke at all. I don’t think dwarves generally have innate breathing protection, so that would be an issue.

I feel like I should clarify that this isn’t part of a project of mine, I just had this idea for a generic fantasy world (I guess maybe something Forgotten Realms/ D&D esque) and wanted to put it out there, so I’ve got no other lore surrounding it about dwarven structures or breathing or darkvision, etc.

That said, I feel like dwarven structures are usually very well lit, so they wouldn’t be fighting in dim light much. And I think darkvision seems to be unaffected by bright flashes and stuff- they don’t seem to be negatively affected by fireballs or whatnot.

Yeah I just added that because dwarves = axes I guess. A normal bayonet would be much more practical.

I’ve got two answers for this, one for before the apocalypse happened, and one for after.

Before the apocalypse, it’s easy enough. I wanted the tech of that era to be near-magical, so that after the apocalypse it’s seen as magical.

1- There’s already a bunch of mall santas (that profession is still around in the 2100s), just hire one.

2- Get a large sack, buy a bunch of toys off A3 (Amazon-Alphabet-Apple), done.

3- You’d have several choices for this. If you’re on a low-gravity world, you can hide propellers or thrusters inside the sleigh and it’ll probably be enough to fly. On Earth though, you’ll either need to basically build it as a massive 4-rotor drone, carry it with a helicopter, or use anti-grav tech. I’m leaning towards the former, since I haven’t decided yet how I want the pre-apocalypse anti-grav tech to be like. That’s the flying done, the sleigh shape is just building a decorative frame.

4- Humanity’s gene-editing tech isn’t good enough to make flying reindeer, so they’ll have to be regular reindeer strapped to a rig in front of the sleigh. It might be hard to make that look convincing.

5- Humanity’s gene-editing tech is good enough however, to make a reindeer with a florescent nose.

As for difficulty, the hardest part here would be getting permission to modify a reindeer to have a glowing nose. The rest is doable for a small dedicated group.

If they actually try to break into houses though, they’ll just get arrested. That is if they don’t get shot down first for refusing to identify themselves (“Santa” is not a valid identification number) and going into controlled airspace.

After the apocalypse, it becomes significantly more difficult, for obvious reasons. Note, the post-apocalyptic part takes place on a far-off moon called Eren B, with about 1/3rd Earth gravity and few Earth animals.

1- Finding someone fat might be difficult, as the low gravity kinda stretches everyone out vertically, but it’s definitely doable. The beard and red clothes is easy.

2- Easy, sacks are everywhere. Obtaining that many toys would be expensive but that’s nothing compared to the next few points.

3- Oh boy, this would be almost impossible. You can “fly” using a Shard Of Gravitation, but the problem is that you only have control over how strong it is, which is why they are primarily used to lighten vehicles instead of fully lifting them off the ground- if you lift off, you have 0 control. There have been experiments with people strapping 5 or 9 Shards to a single platform, with them arranged around the sides, so by changing their strength you can stay upright, but that is insanely expensive- even a single shard is worth more than some villages. And it still only lets you hover, not control your movement. Perhaps, if you manage to find an undamaged fully functional ancient sky-ship (an artefact that would quite possibly be the most valuable thing on the planet), and built a wooden frame around it, you could get a flying sleigh. I suppose another way would be to invent airships. Eren B’s low gravity make them a lot easier to build, but that would still require a bunch of technology that just isn’t available to them.

4- Impossible again. Reindeer don’t exist on Eren B. The original terraforming effort didn’t move over the entirety of Earth’s ecological diversity, as that would have been pointless. Reindeer were left behind, together with most of the substitutes you could use. The closest you could get would be to strap horns to a horse, but that’s still difficult, as there are very few horses on Eren B and the ones that are around are carefully guarded by a (currently unnamed) group in the south, because of the large advantage it gives them. It’s not entirely impossible to get a couple from them though, either through trade or by stealing them.

5- I guess you could strap a lantern to a horse’s nose? You’re already strapping horns to them.

This would be impossibly difficult. No.3 especially is the issue, even if the entire planet was dedicated towards this goal that would still probably be impossible.

Huh neat, I like that idea of Saint Nick’s thing being mundane objects, seems to fit well for me.

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The main advantage of early guns wasn’t that they were more powerful, it’s that they were easy to use. You can train someone to fire a gun in a day, while it takes months of training just to get an archer strong enough to draw a bow.

Also the whole “the Europeans were dirty diseased peasants” thing isn’t accurate, and I have to say that IMO the right response to racist depictions of indigenous people as unwashed savages isn’t to just turn around and say “actually the stereotypes are correct it’s just that it’s about the Europeans this time”.

And Indigenous people had more advanced technoglogy than many give them credit for but "The Europeans were technologically behind indigenous people in nearly every way. " is just blatantly wrong.

I do think you’re right though that without smallpox and other diseases the Europeans wouldn’t have colonised the Americas, though there were several other major factors in it.

P.S. I’m not a historian, grain of salt, etc.

Oh neat. I watched the anime version a while ago, but I didn’t read the original. If I ever get back into the series I’ll check your community out.

ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US!

Ah ok I see, that’s pretty cool.

Wait, built into a comet tail? But the tail of a comet is just gas and dust, it isn’t solid. Is this an oversight, did you mean inside the comet itself or do comets in your world have solid tails?

The art is gorgeous, I like how you’ve got the lights of the distant regions curving up and just barely visible through the fog.

Oh damn, nice. I also finished the campaigns (Neter and AotE) this year, though I definitely couldn’t do it on Very Hard- I had some trouble even on medium.

Sure why not. I haven’t really built anything optimized recently though, so I might have to send an old design. Do you want to do a land, sea, or air battle? (or maybe space?)

Huh, didn’t expect to run across another FTD player in the wild. Hi!

I mean yeah it makes sense. Agriculture is the foundation of sedentary civilizations; in a medieval world like FR the vast, vast majority of people would be farmers; and without food everything else just falls apart.

There’s so much wrong with this… even beyond the obvious, they tiled the wall with exactly 6 tiles just around the sink. The sink is blocked by the shelf so you can’t use it from the front. And (it’s very blurry so I’m not sure) there seems to be some sort of sign stuck above the sink?

I can’t come up with any ways to show the flight corridors without it being visible, but maybe you could instead have the hovercraft move very predictably when at low altitude to make them easy to avoid.

For example, when landing, they could move directly above the landing pad while at cruising altitude, then descend directly downwards which would be obvious and easy to avoid, and the birds would know to avoid the space directly above landing pads.

If the sudden changes in direction are a problem, maybe you could have sort of indicator lights to show when a hovercraft is about to change direction.