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If you go with the One Thing as the handheld AI which has the hardwired control codes for the OMCL sats, then the Nine Cyborgs can track its use. If they are far away, they just know which satellite was overhead when it contacted the network, which gives a rough idea of where it was at the time...

Tron and the Matrix both involve virtual reality as a place where the normal world's rules, such as physics, can be hacked, and that hacking is more or less equivalent to magic. Use of high tech, to accomplish ritual tasks more quickly, for metaphysical purposes, is a well established trope. In...

Lower tech option for the HUD to highlight pressure points, for precisely targeting strikes: goggles. What are some other ways to apply technology to Chinese medicine, wuxia magic, and so forth? Or other synergies? How do we implement the Ringwraiths? I guess that might depend on the nature of...

They indicate a pause. Possible reasons to pause mid-sentence include: sarcasm, embarrassed hesitance, taking a moment to think of a euphemism. More specific marker of sarcasm: /s

The Steve Austin example is Telescopic Vision, offsetting range penalties to a perception check. If he had an onboard computer and could tell it "scan my field of vision for geological anomalies", that would give a bonus... but I dunno if even speculative fiction in that era was imagining such a...

Perhaps the appropriate mechanic for EMP, is that an EMP is a Dispel, Drain, or similar ability. EMP shielding would be Power Defense, with an appropriate limitation. I ran a Fantasy Hero character with an amulet of warding: 10d6 Dispel, Triggered to act on any power which affected the PC or...

In some cyberpunk games, there are levels of EMP and shielding. Here's a scenario: my reflex boosters give +15 DEX, with the +1/4 advantage of level 1 shielding. Your reflex boosters give +10 DEX and have the +3/4 advantage of level 3 shielding. About the same active power points. You generate...

Insofar as acupressure and acupuncture involve precise placement, computer systems are useful for increasing precision well past human abilities. A kung fu master who had a cybernetic implant linked to his optic nerve, which calculated the target's individual pressure points and marked them on...

When I put "because subtlety is the notable trait of Hammer movies" as an aside, with ellipsis (...) before and afterwards, I meant those ellipses as markers that I was switching tone: from straightforwards, to sarcasm, back to straightforwards. If I said the sentence out loud, I would pause at...

If you seek the full power of the Buddha's Palm, you must indeed walk the Middle Way. KFH had a light touch, and campy aesthetics. It also had themes and messages. Your campaign rules for magic and tech could involve an *understanding* of pastoral and industrial, without using as heavy-handed...

For even more subtle themes... because subtlety is the notable trait of Hammer movies... tech and industry are related, but not exactly the same. Perhaps the optimum outcome in this setting can include high tech, when it's used gently and sparingly so that it's part of a more pastoral, less...

You might turn to Mage by White Wolf for a large body of thought and lore on that relationship. If nothing else, I love their use of Paradox as a limiting factor in spellcasting. It's not spell points, it's not spell slots, it's how far you can bend Reality before it snaps back and says "You are...

On one hand, many of those terms could also apply to Grendel, a mix of human and monster, and AFAIK not a stand-in for humans of any particular race. On another hand, the part about lust, and the woman trembling in fear, is a significant element, non-overlapping with the threats posed by bulls...

It's certainly a fast-growing market. Hate groups have surged in the USA since "Unite the Right" in Charlottesville. Perhaps WOTC missed an opportunity, by failing to set up an outreach booth for that event? Were there lots of drop-ins, that week, at the Adventurers League session of the...

One does, however, fly a light aircraft from Helsinki to Moscow, and land in Red Square. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Rust

Oh, THAT's the source that sound? I always thought it was the Man in Black helicopters, in stealth mode. (We know by reason that they are invisible, because we cannot see them; we know by faith that they are black.)

NORAD is on (or under) a mountain, but it's not in an Mordor-esque industrial wasteland. Not yet, anyways. Chernobyl is already there. So far we're going with evil use of technology vs. better, more ethical use of technology. What role does wild magic play in that mix? Are we applying Clarke's...

Heck yeah. You're on to something here. There's a scene in Neuromancer in which a guy walks past a row of public phones, and each phone rings, once, just as he walks past it: because the Wintermute program knows exactly where he is, and can control the phones. See also, the movie "Enemy of the...

Fair. I assumed you'd take my point: what we're asking for, doesn't require YOU to change. We talk more about the details and nuances, the background and the context, than you do. Perhaps we defy racism with intellect and you defy racism with intuition? Wizards versus clerics, but with the same...

The Eye of Sauron as surveillance technology would fit JRRT's theme of industrial technology as a corrupting influence on the idyllic English countryside. Mordor - and Isengard - should be industrial; the final journey should cross a toxic wasteland. Maybe a Siberian facility which also...