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<blockquote data-quote="J.Quondam" data-source="post: 8379146" data-attributes="member: 7030100"><p>Neat idea! I'm one of those "late adopters", too, so this could be a helpful thought-experiment. So...</p><p></p><p>Maybe reskinning it as alien tech? As the artificer levels, for example, he's basically figuring out more and more functions of some mysterious widget he found as a kid. Over time he discovers he can use it to levitate stuff, shoot beams, transmute substances, and much of the other stuff that artificers do; as well as deduce plans for other devices, concoctions, and whatnot.</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><em><span style="font-family: 'georgia'">"Mortimer, son of a farmer, was awakened by a loud flash and crash out in the fields. Investigating, he found a few smoldering sheep around a crater with a hunk of silvery material half-buried at the bottom. With a little digging, he eventually extracted a smooth, malleable ovoid of shimmery putty ringed by a few buttons and sliders, and a tiny, vaguely handlike depression on one end. Mortimer timidly touched his finger to a white button, and the egglike thing started to hum softly... and the farmkid's trowel slowly rose into the air! Wide-eyed, Mortimer suppressed a laugh, shoved the weird device into his pocket, and hurried home before he was missed for breakfast. The trowel spun a few moments in the air before sinking slowly back to the ground."</span></em></p><p></p><p>Not suitable for all campaigns, but that might fit in some oldschool gonzo setting with buried spaceships, four-armed apes, the occasional laser pistol, and the like. And the mysterious crater from the PC's past would be an obvious hook.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="J.Quondam, post: 8379146, member: 7030100"] Neat idea! I'm one of those "late adopters", too, so this could be a helpful thought-experiment. So... Maybe reskinning it as alien tech? As the artificer levels, for example, he's basically figuring out more and more functions of some mysterious widget he found as a kid. Over time he discovers he can use it to levitate stuff, shoot beams, transmute substances, and much of the other stuff that artificers do; as well as deduce plans for other devices, concoctions, and whatnot. [INDENT][I][FONT=georgia]"Mortimer, son of a farmer, was awakened by a loud flash and crash out in the fields. Investigating, he found a few smoldering sheep around a crater with a hunk of silvery material half-buried at the bottom. With a little digging, he eventually extracted a smooth, malleable ovoid of shimmery putty ringed by a few buttons and sliders, and a tiny, vaguely handlike depression on one end. Mortimer timidly touched his finger to a white button, and the egglike thing started to hum softly... and the farmkid's trowel slowly rose into the air! Wide-eyed, Mortimer suppressed a laugh, shoved the weird device into his pocket, and hurried home before he was missed for breakfast. The trowel spun a few moments in the air before sinking slowly back to the ground."[/FONT][/I][/INDENT] Not suitable for all campaigns, but that might fit in some oldschool gonzo setting with buried spaceships, four-armed apes, the occasional laser pistol, and the like. And the mysterious crater from the PC's past would be an obvious hook. [/QUOTE]
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