Giant technology?

[Cail]

Meh, to each their own. I find it too much of a logical stretch to assume that neither society nor technology progressed over the course of 10,000 years.

Color me cynical I suppose.

[ScrapOSamadhi]

I don't think there is any contradition or oversight on SRD's part with the Sereach Giant's having Clingor and the Search Era Giant's not. Remember, the Unhomed wandered a LONG time to many lands (to the Elohim and land of the Sandgorgons, but doubtless others as well). They found/traded for clingor and brought it to the land. None of them made it back to Home, so it is not implausible the Search giant's didn't have it.

[iQuestor]

My two cents:

I agree with Cail that it is very implausible that technology didnt advance, Magic System notwithstanding, but then again:

-- It is part of the suspension of disbelief that we agree with in order to read the story; it is far easier for me to believe a race can go 10,000 years without inventing a cell phone that believing in the existence of a uber-dimensional Land peopled with Giants, Ur-Viles, Lords and Forrestals.

-- It is SRD's story, and he does need the Land to be that way in order to tell it.

-- How interesting would the chrons be if TC and Linden showed up and were run over by a ur-vile on the Mithil-Revelstone AutoBahn while nattering away on a cell phone and slurping a StarBucks's Aliantha-Mocha Latte Supreme....


Q: How many stonedowners does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Er, what's a lightbulb?

Q: How many software developers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: none. That's a hardware problem.

-edited for atrocious spelling.