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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormborn" data-source="post: 3093992" data-attributes="member: 14041">Sigh, big post that got eaten somehow - maybe i will reconstruct it later.  The essentials:-Push the arrival of shadow back a hundred years or so.-Add the melding of a few areas, mostly in areas of low population.  These zones are tightly controled in the western world, but in many areas (former soviet union, africa, middle east, etc) circumstances prevent their being isolated. New areas appear all the time, some as small as afew city blocks, some are several kilometers wide. A few new islands have appeared in the Pacific and Carribean.-Small immigrant communities have popped up in most major cities, and a few reservations outside of them.  An elven tree city has replaced a national park in California and has won status as the first non-human independant nation.  - PCs, based on your description, are "adventurers"  who illegal go into these areas looking for magical artifacts and other treasures they can sell to legitimate and not so legitimate markets.  Remember, in DnD a goblin doll would be worthless, in the modern world its a rare and valuable find for a museum.- Magic is studied in universities in the same way theoretical physics is, and only the brightest are welcomed although numerous cybermages and other fringe elements have shown their profficency in its use.- Divine Magic is embraced by many, and rejected by others.- Occasional "incursions" of savage goblinoid/humanoid hoards or worse -dragons- have neccesitated an emphasis on domestic security and a few urban centers have special units to deal with such.No need to make things to radically different, just start tweaking things here and there.  Remember that magic doesn't always follow scientific methodology, so its been difficult for humanty to get a grip on, at least in the West.  So no major changes in world culture or technology, but there are a lot of example of magitech begining to crop up.</blockquote>

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