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Ditto for Social Interaction and Exploration.

True. Otherwise, the 5e PHB and the 5e DMG would be considered tomes several hundred pages thick. 😛

Mostly in the Eberron and Spelljammer settings.

I doubt that they are all necessary for a contemporary fantasy to work. Plus, they would throw in too much complexity into a game that tries to keep it short and simple.

How many of them are needed to run a contemporary fantasy for 5.5?

Which would have to be tweaked to accommodate magic.

There could be a bit of an arms race between what magic can do, what technology can do, and what both of them could do together in a contemporary setting.

Down below is Laser Llama's take on Dual Wielding. It presents a solution to the whole Bonus action problem typically associated with Dual Wielding. It's sort of like picking up a weapon with the Nick Weapon Mastery property. But instead of getting to use the Bonus Action for another attack, you...

For those who have played or will be playing a martial character with access to a Fighting Style, what would you consider to be your favorite Fighting Style in 5e? Mine would have to be Two-Weapon Fighting (aka Dual Wielding). I have liked it since 3e. It wasn't the amount of damage you could...

Another bookmark to add to my collection of all things A5e. :)

Instantaneous healing keeps the character turnover rate low.

True. Now you are dealing with what's happening in the here and now with a group of individuals, the player characters. If one of them had a background in History and had a penchant of being a know-it-all, then you might get to see a glimpse into their world's history. ;)

Pathfinder 1st edition sort of did this with Golarion's sister planets of Akiton and Castrovel. Akiton was the equivalent of Mars/Barsoom while Castrovel was a jungle world. The Lashunta species in PF1 hailed from Castrovel.

Or leans into presenting the setting from a first-person point of view. To you or me, what matters is what is happening in the here and now, and in our immediate vicinity.

Only from a human perspective. 😛 To an elf or a dwarf, we are still very young.

True, their presence in a setting that resembles ours in almost every way raises questions about historical differences between our world and a world that looks like ours but isn't. But how often is history brought up in a contemporary fantasy story? A character in a contemporary fantasy...

It would depend on how obvious those magical elements were to the average person. You could have a retail store, for instance, that looks ordinary to a non-spellcaster. But to a spellcaster using Sight, they could see the security glyphs and runes that cover the outside and inside of the...

Most likely by arcane magic, which is a studied 'science' in a fantasy setting.

Then that might be a problem. People like playing 5.5e because of its' simplicity. If these rules are needed, they'll add complexity to the game again.

Why is it so important for there to be rules on non-magical technology in a fantasy setting?