@TheEdVerse
For my own curiosity. No game depends upon this.
You said that gunpowder, and even smokeless powder doesn't work. You said that nitroglycerine is used as a FOOD preservative, (which might explain why ships never seem to arrive from Wildspace…)
1/3— Random.Queriant (@RandomQueriant) October 20, 2019
This got me thinking, a month or so later, (and after its treatment in another piece of fiction). What about concrete and cement?
I know that it was available to the Romans, but the Romans didn’t have Transmute Mud to Rock.
Does cement harden in the realms?
2/3 Do you have a partial list of other chemistry-based, or physics-based, resources that behave differently in the realms?
(Would the pRNG in my computer get VERY, er, quirky, and prone to reacting to my will or emotions, in the realms?)
3/3— Random.Queriant (@RandomQueriant) October 20, 2019
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Oh, yes, there’s cement and concrete in the Realms (ask any dwarf, and most gnome, halfling, and human urban building firms), although it’s used more for sealing gaps than for structural work.
I do have a partial list, but it’s been firmly NDA since the TSR 2)
…days, as they liked to build adventure plots and hooks around revelations about such differences.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 21, 2019