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<blockquote data-quote="Johnny Angel" data-source="post: 3973068" data-attributes="member: 13334">I myself would find a campaign less interesting that simply assumed magic obviated science.&nbsp; This is in part because I get a serious nerd-on for retro-tech from as far back as flint arrowheads, but also because there's little reason to assume that magic would be considered distinct from science in a world in which it was demonstrably real, as MarkB pointed out.&nbsp; What I think is more interesting is the question of what, in a world in which magic clearly and demonstrably works, are people irrationally superstitious about?&nbsp; In our own world, we've invented cell phones, which can theoretically call any other cell phone, and we take this fairly astonishing fact of nearly instantaneous worldwide communications for granted now.&nbsp; Yet you can make money selling pieces of plastic to people who are prepared to believe that these pieces do something that your cell phone manufacturer couldn't figure out to do that will both&nbsp; boost your reception and block radiation -- never mind the fact that your phone call is radiation.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Johnny Angel, post: 3973068, member: 13334"] I myself would find a campaign less interesting that simply assumed magic obviated science. This is in part because I get a serious nerd-on for retro-tech from as far back as flint arrowheads, but also because there's little reason to assume that magic would be considered distinct from science in a world in which it was demonstrably real, as MarkB pointed out. What I think is more interesting is the question of what, in a world in which magic clearly and demonstrably works, are people irrationally superstitious about? In our own world, we've invented cell phones, which can theoretically call any other cell phone, and we take this fairly astonishing fact of nearly instantaneous worldwide communications for granted now. Yet you can make money selling pieces of plastic to people who are prepared to believe that these pieces do something that your cell phone manufacturer couldn't figure out to do that will both boost your reception and block radiation -- never mind the fact that your phone call [i]is[/i] radiation. [/QUOTE]

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