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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4834302" data-attributes="member: 19675">I forgot to mention Harry Turtledove's (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Turtledove" target="_blank">Harry Turtledove - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a>) Darkness series.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Turtledove's_Darkness" target="_blank">The Darkness Series - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a>By writing a series of 6 large novels that are essentially about a fantasy world's  equivalent to WW2, HT did gamers a HUGE favor.1) We get magical tech, ranging from the spells tailors use on certain projects to do a seam, up to and including analogs of the guns, tanks, airplanes, the Manhattan Project & nuclear bomb, Project Habakkuk & Pykrete, and a necromantic Final Solution.2) It is scientific magic- you get clued into the rules by which the magic was discovered and why it works...or doesn't.  You even get to see some of the magical experimentation, with failures and successes.3) You see a distinction between the magic of man- the rules of which he can discover and manipulate (analogous to arcane magic), and the magic of the gods (IOW, divine magic), which, while rare, can trump the underpinnings of the arcane world, making arcana unreliable or impossible.  Caveat: divine magic as presented in these books is the result of direct divine intervention, not mortal manipulation of divine magic as per D&D.4)) Its all framed within a nicely imagined, politically complex fantasy world...at war.  Not only are the nations of this world modeled after the major players of WW2, many of the conflicts described within it echo key battles of that conflict as well.Its a long read, but a good one, presented by a talented writer who happens to be a trained historian.  If you're doing a campaign with a fantasy world at war, it could prove invaluable.</blockquote>

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