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While Barsoom is portal fantasy (and set in 1866), Barsoom is part of a shared universe that includes the Carson Napier of Venus stories...

Ah Barsoom is a good reference - especially as we can pin 'Magic as technology' on harnessing of the Ninth Ray. The Ninth Ray is...

Ooh ... What about doubles, but only if the roll would have been a hit? Then when you're fighting at level opponents, you'd have around...

It would depend on how obvious those magical elements were to the average person. You could have a retail store, for instance, that...

The only one of those I would question is the "points of light" element. That seems counter to a contemporary setting where we tend to...

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...

Or you could make Guns v Magic a central pillar. Obviously lightning and fireballs are gun killers, they make gunpowder explode, and...

the 2026 Hacker uses Smart glasses for data scanning and AR overlays Signal scramblers Pocket drones Biometric spoofers Encrypted mesh...

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...

talking of - I kept wondering just how much the Mayor Fisk anti-vigilante taskforce storyline was going to affect the Spider-Man movie...

While bell curves are more consistent and PCs come across as more competent in their skills and abilities (because bonuses matter), what...

Colliers Junior Classics - Legends of Long Ago and various Saturday morning cartoons. Dad use to read The Phantom and Mandrake the...

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

A youngling from 2000.

or someone wanting an easy high protein smoothie