Generally speaking, Remorra has a typical high-fantasy technology level. For clarification, here are some specifics on questionable technology:
Gunpowder
Gunpowder does exist, for these uses:
- Cannons – cannons are very rarely seen, other than on some naval ships of the world’s largest kingdoms.
- Fireworks – very common for celebrations
- Dynamite – is used as a tool for mining, but only by large mining operations. People don’t really associate its power with combat, however goblin hand grenades do exist.
Handguns and rifles do not exist, except in extremely rare cases, like maybe an end campaign boss pirate or something similarly powerful.
Navigation
Compasses exist, but navigation is mostly done by using the stars, major landmarks, or magic scrying.
Like cannons, spyglasses only exist in well-financed nautical fleets. There are no binoculars.
Printing
Printing presses do not exist.
All printing is done using the wood block printing method. (Carve a piece of wood in reverse, roll ink onto it, press it onto paper.)
Unique Technology
Lantern Shield

For those with a need to carry a shield, weapon, and torch, the lack of a third arm meant abandoning one in favor of the other two. The answer to this was a shield that included a lantern, allowing one device to function as both light source and protection. The lantern shield was thus born. It hails from Tinkettle, the Halfling/Gnome city of invention in Mivdencatch.
Lantern shields turned out to be so useful (and easy to construct) that many city guards are armed with them. They are considered common items and usually cost about 18gp.
Multi-Shield

Following the slogan that anything worth doing is worth overdoing, within a short time of the invention of the lantern shield came a fad of multipurpose adventuring items of questionable utility. Inventors sought to combine as many features into shields as they possibly could. Many examples survive today – the Shield of Expression and spiked targe would be two of the more common. The culmination of this fad however was the Multi-Shield. The brainchild of one of history’s greatest inventors, Gilman Whittlefeather, this shield put an end to the “mechanical shield” fad once and for all. This device at the surface is as much for offense as defense. In addition to incorporating a lantern on the outside it also included both an integral gauntlet and retractable blade. This meant the wielder could wear a shield, shed light in front of them, retain the use of their hand, and instantly produce a shortsword-sized weapon from the shield. As if this weren’t enough, the shield also boasted a large twisted spike on the front, which could be used as a weapon when bashing with the shield, and included a little lever reachable from the integral gauntlet which would fire a spring-loaded mechanism to shoot the spike from the shield with the same force as if it were thrown by a character with a 16 in their Strength score. Whittlefeather only made a few of these shields before he figured he had made his point and moved on to more interesting projects.
The few Multi-Shields known to still exist are in The Museum of Wonderful Contraptions and Magnificent Machinations in Tinkettle, Mivdencatch.
