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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 5400975" data-attributes="member: 6957">Heh - I just went with a period where guns were around, and had been for a century or two. The changes had already happened. (I like the Reformation/Counter-Reformation, and the religious strife that accompanied it.)For my setting I had magic returning, or at the least getting stronger - and that was fueling cultural changes, most particularly feeding into the religious strife of the period (I folded it in with the indulgences that so irked Martin Luther - wizards could be 'licensed' for either worthy deeds or a wheelbarrow full of money, with a License being a limited form of indulgence). Over much of the world magic had stopped functioning roughly a thousand years before play began. With the weakening of the Church magic returned.Curiously, in the Orthodox and few remaining pagan lands magic was still accepted, and still worked. (In the real world Albertus Magnus is a saint on the Orthodox calendar.) The Orthodox faith accepted magic as a gift from god, and many of the priests, both cloistered and clerical, are either wizards or multiclassed wizard-clerics.I have a lengthy table on how various faiths feel about magic, the presence of hedge magic, and what punishments, if any, are common for the crime of magic use.For that matter I have a table of 'what can breed with what'....The Auld Grump, prone to the creation of tables and charts.</blockquote>