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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 9786762" data-attributes="member: 907">I'll copy over my post from the other thread.GURPS Technomancer is a nice bit of genius IMO. It's just too bad it's extremely strongly tied to the GURPS system.The idea is that the first nuclear test explosion created some kind of rift that increases the ambient mana in the world, turning the world from the "normal" low-mana real world into normal mana, with high mana within some distance of the explosion (I want to say about 100 miles but I can't be bothered to check – anyway, a fair bit into Mexico as well). Now it's 50 years later and magic has become an industry, very much based on how GURPS magic works assisted by rules from a supplement (Grimoire?) that had stuff about using mundane power to enhance magic. So you have assembly-line mages working to create magic items, which include things like kevlar magic carpets used by special forces for surreptious intrusion. If a high-value worker calls in sick, they teleport in a healer who casts cure disease on them. And rocketry never developed much beyond the V2 – because of the effects of that first nuke (and a second one the Soviet Union used in Antarctica, which caused a MUCH larger effect which in turn discouraged further testing) nuclear weapons were pretty much abandoned. The space program is alive and kicking though, but uses teleportation instead.Addendum: a really cool detail is that since there's little focus on outer space in culture (since there was never a space race), the modern-day mythology of alien abductions has been turned into fey abductions instead. Mostly the same thing except that instead of being taken to a spaceship, you're taken into a fey mound.Oh, and one of the effects of the nuke the Soviets set off in Antarctica was that a whole bunch of penguins became intelligent and have created a commmunist magic-based society.</blockquote>

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