Heavy horses and horse-collars windmills. Steel weapons early firearms plate armor castles. Stirrups oceangoing sailing ships (longships, roundships, etc.). Iron weapons iron armor (including mail) siege engines. Wooden and stone weapons primitive shields hides for armor.įirst aid herbal remedies primitive agriculture.īare horseback the wheel (and chariots) ship-building sails. Nanotechnology or other advances start to blur distinctions between technologies. For the Classic version see Technology Levels (Classic).Īlso note that GURPS Lensman uses a totally different Tech level system called Tech Stages.ĭ&D got its own version of Tech Levels in the form of Cultural Level with the Ravenloft: Domains of Dread (1997) supplement.Įlectrical calculators telephone and radio Īrtificial intelligence real-time virtuality.
The biggest changes from Classic was the elimination of ending dates and the introduction of superscience. The below chart is intended to represented the newest, 4th Edition. Please note that tech levels have somewhat changed between editions. '“Tech level” (TL) is a general rating of a society’s highest achievement in technology (or a certain type of technology).'(sic)
For full overview, see references.īasic Set: Campaigns page 513 discusses having multiple versions of a skill for different tech levels and how you can save points by defaulting, using the modifiers from Basic Set: Characters page 168 which has 2 categories: This page will attempt to provide a brief overview. This is however complicated somewhat by a special nomenclature for split technologies (if a world is more advanced in some fields), and different technologies (psi, magic, science).
Very simply, they can be listed on a scale from Tech Level 0 (Stone Age) through Tech Level 8 (Digital Age) to Tech Level As High as the Game Master wishes (sci-fi) which represents a general rating of a society’s highest achievement in technology. Tech Levels are a crucial part of GURPS system, and of the Infinite Worlds setting. 5.6 Outside the normal TL scale (superscience)^.