Also, despite calling me uncle ted and saying I'm pessimistic about modernity, you didn't really put anything forward to refute the observation that a relative increase in technological complexity necessitates a greater degree of cooperation and interdependence between more people with greater resources in order for it to function. That's not even a modern thing. A standard fantasy adventurer's sword requires a swordsmith, people to mine and smelt the iron, people to cut the trees and make the charcoal, and people to get all the materials where they need to go. Meanwhile Grug the cavemen can make his own sharp stick. Just as the sci-fi setting lends itself to player characters having access to the resources of organization like governments or corporations, the fantasy setting lends itself to player characters having access to societies of settled peoples. This is just significantly less of a narrative limitation than the sci-fi one. <|endoftext|> >DUDE HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY ARM, TRAIN, AND FEED A WHOLE THOUSAND PEOPLE? THAT'S LITERALLY NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE, NOBODY COULD EVER HAVE A WHOLE TEN HUNDRED SOLDIERS