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<blockquote data-quote="skymage" data-source="post: 398721" data-attributes="member: 7347">why on earthWhy is it that all modern d&amp;d games have to take place on earth. Why can't you have forgotten realms with modern day technology. With gods intact everything is the same. Except that gnomes have built cars. Maybe you can add in some new skills like computer and science. Maybe new classes like doctor that are for those ever expanding dead magic zones. How much damage does a nuke do. What effect would radiation have on psions. I don't see why all modern games have to take place on the real earth or a planet very similar to it. I like the idea of having an underground new york type drow city. Or dragons being hunted down with ground to air missiles. Can you imagine what modern science could do if magic was real. It's just the way I look at it. I can understand the why would any one be a doctor when the local cleric can just cast cure light wounds or why learn to build a plane when the local mage can teleport you, but I like my magic and I don't see why everyone always thinks it has to change or become scarce just because science has learned how gunpowder works and why we die when we get old.Thats just the way I look at it. After all aren't the people in all the books I read smart enough to figure out the same things we have in reality or are all wizards doomed to be slain by a sword.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="skymage, post: 398721, member: 7347"] [b]why on earth[/b] Why is it that all modern d&d games have to take place on earth. Why can't you have forgotten realms with modern day technology. With gods intact everything is the same. Except that gnomes have built cars. Maybe you can add in some new skills like computer and science. Maybe new classes like doctor that are for those ever expanding dead magic zones. How much damage does a nuke do. What effect would radiation have on psions. I don't see why all modern games have to take place on the real earth or a planet very similar to it. I like the idea of having an underground new york type drow city. Or dragons being hunted down with ground to air missiles. Can you imagine what modern science could do if magic was real. It's just the way I look at it. I can understand the why would any one be a doctor when the local cleric can just cast cure light wounds or why learn to build a plane when the local mage can teleport you, but I like my magic and I don't see why everyone always thinks it has to change or become scarce just because science has learned how gunpowder works and why we die when we get old. Thats just the way I look at it. After all aren't the people in all the books I read smart enough to figure out the same things we have in reality or are all wizards doomed to be slain by a sword. [/QUOTE]

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