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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kinem" data-source="post: 5076490" data-attributes="member: 24234">I'm just toying with an idea for a campaign setting:D&D, but with humans as the only intelligent race, and with modern-level or somewhat premodern technology.  The technology wouldn't be exactly the same as on Earth because it would be fully integrated with magic.  Automobiles might run on magic, for example with a magical motor but using mechanical gears and such to drive the wheels.What this is not: d20 Modern.  It would probably use a lot of elements from d20 Modern, but it would use D&D-style classes and magic.  Also, d20 Modern is based on a non-magical world with magic tacked on.What it is also not: Magic as a replacement for tech.  There would be actual science and technology, especially guns, cars, airplanes, computers, etc.What it is also not: A world where humans triumphed because of their tech.  Humans did not have to compete with monsters and other races here.Elements that would be included: some undead (ghosts, liches, zombies, others), constructs, maybe a few hidden other monsters like doppelgangers or mindflayers.Combat with modern weapons would be very deadly without magical protection - the threshold for massive damage (save or die) would be 10 like in d20 modern - but magical protection would be common at high levels: items that grant immunity to massive damage saves, anti-explosive spells, etc.Religion would be basically nonexistant.  Clerics would study spells like wizards or would be replaced by Pathfinder's oracle class.  Evolution would be well known to be the way humans arose.The only other plane that would be accessible would be the Ethereal.  No monster summoning spells.Humans would be divided by programs of selective breeding.  The breeding resulted in 'races' that get +2 to a particular stat or +2 to one and -2 to another.  There could also be halflings, a human offshoot.  There would be a lot of racial tension and potentially wars.  Races would not be like those on Earth.Other sources of conflict would be national rivalry, criminals, new tech, and political and economic ideologies (socialism vs capitalism, democracy vs. mageocracy, etc.)What do you think of the idea?  Any advice or suggestions?</blockquote>

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