"Science" as a power source?

[Plane Sailing]

If you're linking to that, please link to this or this comic.

There are so many good possibilities that I thought I'd start at the beginning, but those are good too

 

[erf_beto]

There are so many good possibilities that I thought I'd start at the beginning, but those are good too

QFT!

When I saw the thread title, "Sparks" were the first thing on my mind
And since we're linking GG, here's a short story

But really, the idea of a Science! Power Source taps into the old Mage: Ascencion game, specially the Sorcerer's Crusade: the birth of science, by the Renaiscence period, with witch-doctors alchemists, DaVinci-like inventors, flying ship pilots, clockwork golems... love it!

 

[Stormtalon]

Hmmm, maybe they should toss most of the vision-altering powers into the "Science" power source, which would inevitably result in the following exchange:

Ogre brute: "GAH! She blinded me!"
Gnome Technomancer: "With SCIENCE!"

(le sigh, and I though I'd scanned to see if this joke had already been done, too....)

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

The Unknown Armies/d20 adventure The Ascension of the Magdalene is a really cool example of how D&D can work with SCIENCE! Also, it has a conversion guide between D&D and Unknown Armies, which is absolutely mind-boggling.

 

[Gundark]

Not "Science", but Science! (the exclamation point is part of the correct spelling.)

Queue Thomas Dolby music.

You beat me to it

 

[the Jester]

Not "Science", but Science! (the exclamation point is part of the correct spelling.)

I can get behind this one, I think.

 

[bmcdaniel]

Torg

The Torg roleplaying game (by West End Games, I believe) actually had a skill called "Science!". It was for mad scientists for the 1940s pulp reality to create their radium pistols with.

Ken

 

[PeterWeller]

Can we just add megadamage and make D&D in Rifts already?

 

[Zaruthustran]

The class name "Mechanaut" = win

 

[vagabundo]

We could have a class called the McGyver, power source Science.