Mixing a little sci-fi in with the fantasy just seems very D&D to me. Like Tevye would say if he were a game nerd, "It's tradition!". I've included a little SF in every homebrew I've made. Or a lot, come to think of it.
I'm trying to be a little more sly and oddball with my sci-fi references in my current setting of CITY, something other than orcs w/lasers (not that there's anything wrong with that). Such as...
I'm trying to be a little more sly and oddball with my sci-fi references in my current setting of CITY, something other than orcs w/lasers (not that there's anything wrong with that). Such as...
- A tapestry commissioned by sorceress and woven by a desert mystic which shows the map of Creation is called the "Shalazar-Houri Revised Standard Model". It's an attempt to find the G.U.T. -or "Grand Unified Thaumaturgy".
- A group of rival adventurers had a submarine, a cheap Nautilus-knockoff called the Moray, complete with magical cannons, which of course the party stole.
- While recently adventuring in the Land of the Dead, they encountered a wrecked
spaceshipcontinuacraftbrane-TARDIS which had crashed into the floating skeleton of the dragon god Leviathan, along with it's inert pilot, a beautiful doll-robot powered by a helix of qauntum foam --which the party alchemist recognized as a "strand of the fire of Ultimate Chaos".
- There's the MODOSS unit, the party's NPC Warforged tank. It's a man-shaped/sized amored robot, complete with jet boosters, that's piloted by a lemur-shaped/sized smaller robot. Don't ask.
- The party alchemist is working on a prototype CON-boosting item... a steam-powered external pacemaker, which occationally blinds the wearer when it vents steam.
