@Blackheiffer woke up and chose violence.
I confess I had lol with your psychoanalysis
Of course I engage in projection. As do you. I always smile whenever I see you inveighing against nostalgia - you really are quite hard on yourself. Protip: engage in some self reflection on that matter, you really do inveigh against yourself and it leaves you 'all over the place'. Truly.
Anyway. This isn't an academic paper but let's pretend it is
On smokepowder. Lots of sources here. Covers availability, stability, controversy, etc.
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Smokepowderhttps://web.archive.org/web/20210517004301/https://twitter.com/jvcparry/status/867391458827005953
Yes Gond taught it to the Lantanese but this was opposed by other gods. Which is why it was cursed to be unstable.
(and in meta terms this reflects battles inside of WotC - some people want to see firearms in the realms, some strongly oppose it)
Avernus is Max Max: Fury Road in the hells and thus it is possible that factories exist outside of Faerun. [1] (it is equally likely that the iron that makes up a infernal machines grows on trees, pours out of infernal fountains, floats on top of the rivers of salt or is produced by an act of will by Zariel) How many such infernal factories exist? I assume the factories are as rare as Thunderdome but neither of us knows - 5e avernus is under construction.
If the entire factory - and not just the "special material"s for the steel watch referred to in the notes - came from the hells there should some indication it did. Seems a pretty big move some for some who needs to pay a diabolist to traverse the planes, no? It's not clear how Gortash gets the small amounts of infernal iron he has but it is strongly implied that it came as part of deal that involved Karlach and her beta test heart.
I'm glad you felt like you got good role play out slaughtering the zombies in the streets, in the circus and in sorcerous sundries. Unless you found some way to stealth that it leads of a murder hobo / enemy of justice response and if you find that fun, I guess you do. I mean the zombies beg for mercy for Bhaal's sake . . .
Because I like DnD lore I do kill the vampire spawn in astarian's quest but the story absolutely does not confirm that as a good act. It's an that action causes Paladin of devotion to fall - in Larian's mind it is **coded** as an evil act (or at least not a lawful good act). Good Shadowheart tells you that sparing the lives of the spawn was the right decision because their deaths would weigh on you . . . Releasing the spawn is the good option - it's hard to argue otherwise. And it does turn out for the best . . . (which I think is silly)
I don't know what to say about this:
You seem to be complaining about outcomes that you chose. Odd.
Other than: that seems to be an exceptionally poor reading of what I wrote. Odd.
1]
https://www.inverse.com/article/592...ernus-writer-reveals-mad-max-inspiration
