• ByteOnBikes@discuss.online
      3·
      12 days ago

      I’m just imagining you showing someone in a fantasy realm a modern Glock and they go, “Ah that’s like our matchlock pistols!” And they explain the dwarves and their technical capabilities.

      • kelpie_returns@lemmy.world
        1·
        12 days ago

        I forgot about those dang crafty dwarves! If Mr. Gun (the glock) fails to impress, it’s time to whip out his papa; Dr. Gun (something big and fully automatic idk gun stuff lol)

  • NoWay@lemmy.world
    3·
    12 days ago

    A Cup, 3 pieces of jewelry, a diary, a pet and for some reason an opponent’s child.

  • Apeman42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    12 days ago

    Lots of small tech, but if we want it to stay useful to them longer than one battery charge, I’d say a crank-powered flashlight or lantern.

    I suppose anyone doing a lot of math, like a moneychanger, would also lose their shit over a solar powered calculator.

  • iii@mander.xyzEnglish
    141·
    13 days ago

    Light at the flick of a switch.

    It’s was a glacially cold moonlit night. Our hero turned on the LED ceiling lights.

  • wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io
    61·
    12 days ago

    The standard faire would be a mirror or the ladder to the attic or a broom.

    If you’re looking for the path less traveled, a microwave magnet is a fantastic way to curse your nemesis’s compass.

    • psx_crab@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      12 days ago

      The magical item that confuse the monster’s sense of direction.

      And also can instant kill them.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      81·
      12 days ago

      A microwave without an accompanying, compatible power source would just be a weird box.

      EDIT: Oh, you said the magnet from one, I can’t read lol.

      Well, uh microwaves have electromagnets.

      They don’t produce much of a magnetic field without a power source.

      So… same problem, actually.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      23·
      12 days ago

      Useless without a power source.

      Just a strange, misshapen polearm of some kind, or possibly an artwork.

        • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          12 days ago

          You mean like uh, if we isekai’d with a solar power backup station upc as well?

          Yeah, that’d work, if it could deliver enough watts.

          They didn’t say that though.

          You would still have to run the right amps and voltage through the thing, and it would have to connect into the right kind of wall outlet… which all implies that such a ‘fantasy’ setting has a more or less equivalent to our modern power infrastructure.

          Maybe its some kind of LiON vaccuum, that was already charged? I guess then that would be neat untill it ran out of charge.

          I mean, if your fantasy society has electro magic… presumably they would also already construct and use devices which make use of electro magic, so one of our vaccuums would probably just be seen as again, still some weird thing, as it would probably not be compatible with some completely different paradigm for eletrical power generation.

          Or, if said society has electro magic and doesn’t use this with machines/devices… well ok I guess you could have a story where electricity benders try to figure out how to control their powers such to not just instantly overcharge and destroy the vaccuum cleaner lol?

          I dunno, Timeline by Michael Crichton goes into the actual logistics of setting up electrical infrastructure in a less fantasy but still medieval setting.

          We can I guess argue about what exactly confines the boundaries of the general concept of fantasy, I would say fantasy does not generally include something like an existing industrial power grid.