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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 1371274" data-attributes="member: 2067">The best way I've found is to take D&D, and overlay modern, if you're going for an FF feel. Basically, magical energy just substitutes for the coal/oil/steamtech. Instead of using undead to invade the town, the evil empire uses constructs. People can be mutated from birth. There exist corportations who have discovered magical technology, and they are rich and powerful (and probably evil). Instead of the Dark Tower of Evil being a throne of stone and bone, it is a temple of technology and terror, with wires and gears and shuffling, mindless servants. You could turn the bi-product of this technology into a sort of mutating steam, too....Of course, outside of the city, things are idyllic, even if the local people occasionally see an airship fly through the sky, or a mech-suited warrior run past their farm..Of course, inside the city you have plumbing, great elevators, movie stars and mechanic keepers...It could become something of a Divine vs. Arcane setting, with the divine magic of the spirits of nature being clean and pure, but as the Arcane magic of technology and mutations goes on the rise, the spirits are being killed off....of course, one can't just wage war on technology. It provides great benefits. The trick is to achieve a balance, probably...You can have guns, but just treat them like arrows or crossbows. You can have vehicles, they're just a subset of the Ride skill (or relocate the score to Int and call it "Drive" if you'd like). You still have swords, you still have axes, and armor can still protect you from the guns of this age. Will the land be consumed in a tide of robitics and magical energy? Will the deities die as metal sweeps the land? Or will a great war ravage the world like none that has been seen so far? Perhaps even greater than the mythical wars of the Gods of the past, who sealed away a second, greater magic before as they took the land (make psionics a secret art, kind of thing?)?</blockquote>

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