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<blockquote data-quote="JohnSnow" data-source="post: 3529276" data-attributes="member: 32164">In some settings, magic interferes with technology. The example I'll use is from Jim Butcher's novel series The Dresden Files. In that world, the more complicated the technology, the more likely magic is to have an impact on how well it functions. As the main character, practicing wizard Harry Dresden explains it, &quot;magic can't usually interfere with basic physics,&quot; so simple machines, even normal chemical reactions, usually go off without a hitch. But wizards using technology or having it used around them, tend to be walking manifestations of Murphy's Law. Lightbulbs blow out, electronics short circuit, telephones have interference, TV tubes blow, computers fry, complex automobile ignitions short out, and so on. The basic theory is that magic produces an energy field, and the more powerful practitioners &quot;radiate&quot; one even when they're NOT casting spells. So a wizard like Harry can't use a cell phone, and having a modern gas furnace in his house might be taking his life in his own hands. But lesser practitioners have no trouble with such things.Something like that could make for an interesting discrepancy in a future campaign.This is mildly off-topic, but I've actually thought about setting a near future campaign where the Force has begun to be recognized as a real thing (and is called magic, psionics, and various other things by people on Earth). Some people even call it &quot;the force&quot; in honor of a certain very popular late 20th- and early 21st-century science fiction series.I will probably pursue the idea further after Star Wars Saga Edition is released. From what I've read of the previews, those rules (especially the Force rules) should be portable to d20 Modern without TOO much effort.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JohnSnow, post: 3529276, member: 32164"] In some settings, magic interferes with technology. The example I'll use is from Jim Butcher's novel series [i]The Dresden Files.[/i] In that world, the more complicated the technology, the more likely magic is to have an impact on how well it functions. As the main character, practicing wizard Harry Dresden explains it, "magic can't usually interfere with basic physics," so simple machines, even normal chemical reactions, usually go off without a hitch. But wizards using technology or having it used around them, tend to be walking manifestations of Murphy's Law. Lightbulbs blow out, electronics short circuit, telephones have interference, TV tubes blow, computers fry, complex automobile ignitions short out, and so on. The basic theory is that magic produces an energy field, and the more powerful practitioners "radiate" one even when they're NOT casting spells. So a wizard like Harry can't use a cell phone, and having a modern gas furnace in his house might be taking his life in his own hands. But lesser practitioners have no trouble with such things. Something like that could make for an interesting discrepancy in a future campaign. This is mildly off-topic, but I've actually thought about setting a near future campaign where the Force has begun to be recognized as a real thing (and is called magic, psionics, and various other things by people on Earth). Some people even call it "the force" in honor of a certain very popular late 20th- and early 21st-century science fiction series. I will probably pursue the idea further after [i]Star Wars Saga Edition[/i] is released. From what I've read of the previews, those rules (especially the Force rules) should be portable to [i]d20 Modern[/i] without TOO much effort. [/QUOTE]

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