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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felix" data-source="post: 3106403" data-attributes="member: 3929">I support the Alien use of Psionics in a world where magic doesn't work well; I recommend Mind Flayers, as they have a reputation for conquest and psionics.And they eat brains. Always good motivation to fight them, eh?---As for particular places where magic works, I recommend pulling from RIFTS and Stephen King's Dark Tower series: use ley lines.Being an earth-centric magical force, ley lines allow you to utilize the druidic priesthood to both provide the PCs with magic and keep magic secret from the rest of the world. The druids know magic works, they know ley lines run all over the place, but they don't want magic to be used by the general population for fear of a magical arms race between nations. Perhaps this fear is grounded in a war centuries or millenia ago which destroyed most of civilization. They have allowed the power of the ley lines to wane to discourage the re-discovery of magic, and to prevent another cataclysm.However, as preservers they have vast stores of knowledge about the use of magic, and their priesthood includes wizards, sorcerers, clerics and ... well, maybe bards too ... Of course everyone has one or two druid levels, but the different schools of magic can be kept alive by this secret and kept seperate from the outside world.---To bring in Stephen King, the mind flayers would be very interested in destroying the ley lines and any sites important to their continued existance so as to completely destroy the resistance made possible by magic. They would then be free to create portals into this world to establish beach-heads and conquer and enslave the populatoin.---The druids, aware of the mind flayer threat, seek to strengthen the nexuses and re-introduce magic to the world to produce a magical resistance powerful enough to thwart the alien menace. This would provide missions for the PCs to complete ranging from re-establishing nexuses, protecting existing nexuses, attacking Mind-flayer entry-points, courting kings to provide troops to combat the enemy, and generally avoiding having their brains turned into an appetizer.---And for fun, you can run the PCs into a guerilla force of Githyanki, not particularly interested in helping the resident humanoids, but fiercely dedicated to harrying the mind flayers. Or perhaps a sojourn into the Astral by the PCs frees the mythical Gith and begins the war of the Githyanki and the Githzerai against the Illithids.</blockquote>

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