Techlock
Barring specific permission from the Staff Team, Sangreal’s Techlock is centered around the middle to the late medieval period, from the 1400s to the 1600s with minor exceptions to the rules.
However, the majority of what is restricted shall be detailed below, for the sake of players incorporating it into their characters in some way, shape, or form.
Rifled Weaponry:
Any projectile weapons should not possess rifling, as this technology is futuristic to the setting.
Gunpowder Weaponry:
The development and production of gunpowder and cannonry is prohibited unless otherwise specified.
High-powered Explosives:
The server may permit simple explosive recipes. However, high-compression, high-density explosives, such as Nitroglycerine, Trinitrotoluene (TNT), and similar non-Gunpowder derived explosives are disallowed.
Penicillin or Sulfonamide:
Modern or semi-Modern Antibiotics are disallowed for use in RP, as medicines and alchemy of the period, should be kept relevant to the period.
The Concept of Electricity:
Many will know that lightning and other electrical discharges, including ‘magic’ ones, are inherently dangerous. However, understanding that these are electrical charges that can be harnessed or stored, is disallowed.
Compressed Fluids and Gases:
The technology of the medieval period, barring fictional magic, was unable to compress and contain fluids and gases in a manner similar to hydraulic action. Fluids and gases may be contained, but at no more than standard atmospheric pressure.
Magical means of compression must be approved by Lore Team, and stringent limits may be imposed upon their uses.
This restriction includes steam power being utilized to convey heat into kinetic motion. Steam engines are restricted, and must require heavy Lore Team oversight.
Intricate Gearwork Systems:
Outside of the constructs of ‘Magitech’, gear systems with cogs smaller than 2 inches in diameter are disallowed. Metallic ball bearings and bearing-styled bushings that function on grease lubrication are also summarily disallowed.
‘Magitech’ systems must be approved, and the fudging of intricate systems will be punished.