The Green Axes are one of the religious sects that have Clerics and Holy Warriors who use the straight DF templates. Some mild rearrangement has happened, I did this on my phone so I will double check to see.if I missed anything later. Should we-ī) subsume them as a "sub-guild"(?) of the Inventors?Ĭ) use that as a nickname for the Inventors?ĭ) keep them as separate guilds with separate functions?Į) have them as separate competing guilds for the same function?į) some other suggestion? One possibility have been posted. The stonecutters' guild has already been mentioned, albeit in passing, as the town's architecture guild. What is the name of a typical low-level, mid-level and high-level establishment? Where can passing strangers find accommodation in Newbridge? What are some of the lesser guilds in Newbridge? Where can soldier or martial artist types go to get some skill-up packages in the city (which is still unnamed)? What are the hidden religious groups? Where do they hide, and how do they survive? What are they plotting?
What are some names for the religious groups? How do they choose their leaders? who are important people? Anything else noteworthy? How do the races interact on day to day basis among general population? What are the typical types of commerce in the city? So, that keeps the TL stable, without real changes So, inventions that would make several workers out of job (like steam machines to produce clothes) would be vetoed by the Inventors, technologies that could turn people away from the Gods would be vetoed by the priests. The priesthood can also have a say on this matter. In our imaginary city, the Inventors guild could even go so far as banning "harmful tech", making illegal the commerce of technologies that could potentially "disrupt social order". And, althouth some steam machines exist, the guilds doesn't let them change things. With the guilds, all the work must pass in their hands, so, no ideas about "assembly lines" ever take hold. The guilds maintain the aristocrats, and those keep the guilds. DF society hasn't evolved politically, being aristocratic on most settings, and the system of guilds has a firm domain over production. The reason why it would stay stagnant is more social than technological.
And with all the Magic, it would be easy to reach something similar to our TL 8 world (TL 5/6 + 3 due to Magic). We could say that, in theory, DF could become TL 5/6 with easy, considering what it has. It is how dispersed those techs are throghout society however there are no factories and no assembly lines for mass producing, so, even if the Inventors can build steam fueled motorcycles, they are VERY rare (and probably expensive) itens, because they are all made in the old medieval way, with one single person building them, instead of an assembly line of workers pushing bottoms. Yeah, it would probably be TL (3 + 1/2/3)^, but it can even have TL 2 elements.