Questions tagged [renaissance]
For questions related to the Renaissance era, on an equivalent era where there is a flourishing of knowledge, arts and all fields of human endeavor.
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How could a Renaissance level feudal society get into space?
My story features Renaissance-era feudal society with working space travel. Humans are able to travel around the Solar System (Earth, Mars, asteroid belt, moons of Jupiter) in spacecrafts fitted with ...
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How to spread a taboo white paper at a large scale in a Renaissance-level, medium magic world?
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In my world, magic has been granted to mortals by their gods.
As a result, the Church heavily regulates it, and the only legal spellcasters are clerics and clergymen. Magic use is heavily ...
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Trojan horse for protecting against Roman inquisition [closed]
I'm imagining a world set in Medici Florence. As actual history plays out, despite the Medicis' growing power, the start of the Roman Inquisition still necessitated some concessions. For instance, ...
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What would a society with plant growing spells look like?
In a vaguely fantasy renaissance world threatened by monsters, certain reclusive tribal spellcasters follow religious traditions giving them nature based spells. Specifically one spell who's limits ...
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What factors would contribute to a medieval era mechanical revolution?
In our real world we have been blessed with many mechanical inventions throughout the ages. Wind mills, water driven sawmills, rope and pulley systems, cranes, marvels in clockwork and gearing such as ...
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Stagnated renaissance era technology in a fantasy setting?
I am early in this design but am imagining a fictional world in the age of exploration including classic fantasy tropes of monsters and magic, with renaissance era technology, that is cannons, muskets,...
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How would a medieval society clear a jungle?
How would a late medieval to early renaissance society clear a 200,000mi² jungle?
This country is also a version of the Mexico-sized country referenced here, but much younger, and without the moving ...
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How to recreate units of measure?
How is it possible to recreate standard units of measure (meter, kilogram, second) with Renaissance-level technology?
A man (let's call him "Traveler") gets transported to a different world, ...
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How Could Someone Make an Army Which is Immune or Resistant to Magic Attacks?
My DnD character is a sorta artificer/warlock mix who has technical prowess and has a patron that can give him glimpses into technology from alternate universes (basically advanced knowledge on ...
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How hard magic could make bows, swords and other early/mid- medieval weapons relevant alongside fairly advanced gunpowder weapons?
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In a quite a lot of games swords, bows and so forth exist on a regular basis alongside guns, and often are as powerful, if not more so, than firearms. In a realistic, non-magical setting, ...
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Uses for dragons in combat in a Renaissance-level setting with cannons, muskets, and magic? [closed]
My fantasy setting has late Renaissance-level technology with cannons and muskets, along with a moderate level of magic (i.e. Wizards and other spellcasters are well-known, but pretty uncommon). How ...
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What could prevent my world from progressing past the early industrial age?
Now, my world is old. Very old. And, unfortunately, the story locked me in a paradox. Namely, the colonization of the lush caves featured in another of my questions, which also have a name now (Harat ...
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How Would Limited Space Travel Change Late Medieval/Early Renaissance-era Warfare?
In my book series, the various planets of the galaxy, give or take, generally have access to late medieval to early renaissance era technology in terms of warfare. That means full plate armor, siege ...
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What are ways for a renaissance culture to combat my invasive species? [closed]
My world is on the verge of being overrun by animals and plants from other planets that are well-adapted. Some of these creatures are magical in nature and more powerful and long-lived than the native ...
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How might a pre-modern civilization make it to the "Moon"?
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There is a double planet system. Both planets are habitable. One planet has humans and the other one animals. So instead of seeing a grey Moon in the sky, the humans living on the first ...
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