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Culture is a better model to vary humans as it avoids bioessentialism veering into racism. Humans with a Agrarian culture or a Seafaring culture might hail from anywhere, even if Humans with a Desert Nomad culture have a much more obvious analogue. Of course once you get down to specific...

Another idea I have considered is adapted from the ReBoot cartoon and The Matrix Movies The Loom of Reality is the underlying operating system for all existence. While the common folk experience it as a physical world of stone, air, and magic, it is actually a complex, multi-layered execution...

The story does say Carson Napier made a miscalculation by forgetting to adjust for the moons influence and gets caught in the gravitational pull of Venus. So yeah he wasnt too good at orbital mechanics

the Moon Maid has a cannibalistic centaur race? Carson Napier becomes a Psychic. Sky Pirate? Flying Stegosaurs?- Swords, Psychic powers, Monsters and Flying vehicles are all aspects of fantasy and its all set in a modern world

While Barsoom is portal fantasy (and set in 1866), Barsoom is part of a shared universe that includes the Carson Napier of Venus stories (he builds a rocket and attempts to fly to Barsoom in 1931 but crashlands on Venus instead). David Innes goes to Pellucidar in 1914 then Tarzan goes to...

Ah Barsoom is a good reference - especially as we can pin 'Magic as technology' on harnessing of the Ninth Ray. The Ninth Ray is collected in the Atmosphere Factory of Helium and converted to energy. It helps create Barsooms atmosphere, allows its ships to fly, can be used for teleportation and...

I think we should probably get off the gun debate and get on to the Setting debate - so for that purpose I present some core setting assumptions Heroic Fantasy Genre: The setting is designed for "heroic fantasy." Player characters are exceptional, and the world is populated by various threats...

Or you could make Guns v Magic a central pillar. Obviously lightning and fireballs are gun killers, they make gunpowder explode, and metal weapons unusable. At the sametime silver bullets are effective against werewolves and rock salt destroys ghosts, hags and fey. Both sides start...

the 2026 Hacker uses Smart glasses for data scanning and AR overlays Signal scramblers Pocket drones Biometric spoofers Encrypted mesh communicators AI assistants Wireless script generators all of those are available at a standard PBTech store

I liked the notion in Tim Powers On Stranger Tides that Magic was always real on Earth but had faded due to human use of Iron Tools. It thus meant that real scorcerers had to avoid contact with iron tools. So in setting terms 1. Magic has always existed 2. Magic doesnt like metal (no armor) 3...

talking of - I kept wondering just how much the Mayor Fisk anti-vigilante taskforce storyline was going to affect the Spider-Man movie. Will we see TV fallout affecting the movie timeline?, will DoDC take over the taskforce duties...

While bell curves are more consistent and PCs come across as more competent in their skills and abilities (because bonuses matter), what you loose is the heroic thrill of rolling a 20 or the fatal fumble of a 1. Your solution of rolling a 10 might help, but it isnt as satisfying :( Maybe rolling...

Colliers Junior Classics - Legends of Long Ago and various Saturday morning cartoons. Dad use to read The Phantom and Mandrake the Magician comics and we watched Hulk, Wonder Woman, Man from Atlantis, Dr Who, Star Trek, Tommorow People. Lucan, Logans Run and Blakes Seven on TV I read the Black...

OMG theres a child in our midst! (Btw was son was born in 2000 too)

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