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<blockquote data-quote="LuisCarlos17f" data-source="post: 7876815" data-attributes="member: 6802378"><p>Usually you are imagining PCs with "toys" fighting against monsters without firearms and other gadgets, but you haven't thought about when PCs are tribemen who face an invasion by a higher-level tech. If WotC wants to create a videogame with different playable factions, who will want to play tribemen without spellcarters nor firearms? </p><p></p><p>Usually magic is too expensive to can be used by the masses. Why not noble houses would replace standar armours with powered exosuits, or "cheap" mini-construct carring (anti-ballistic) tower-shields? </p><p></p><p>In my worlds firearms in the towns aren't easy to be used, because temples create <em>cursed</em> zones against firearms in the zones. And they are too noisy to be used by criminals, o worse, there are supernatural curses against guns. Killed by firearms can come back as spirits to avenge. Or only an adivination spell allows to know where and when a firearm was shooted in that zone. With a simple spell and the body of the victim a spellcaster can know where is the weapon of the murder. And firearms wouldn't be the end of the magic because most of citizens (and even criminals themself) would rather to buy magic bullets for no-lethal damage (sleeping, hold-person, web). </p><p></p><p>And fighters would rather old firearms because they have got a special aura or resonance. They are more expensive or rare, but at least theses allow to be attuned to magic item. And most of firearms are one-shot, because weapons with automatic fire are possible, but too easy to be blocked by magic, psionic or other powers. </p><p></p><p>Vehicles with motor are possible, but the technophobia is too strong when you know in the past some vehicles were cursed and possesed by evil spirits or infernal outsiders. (Do you remember Stephen King's "Carrie" or "Maximum Overdrive"?)</p><p></p><p>Cybertronians (transformers) would nice as D&D PC race being published in April's Food (half seriously half joking). </p><p></p><p>* If magitek or magic technology could creatte a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel_energy_storage" target="_blank">flywheel energy storage</a> to be added to a<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_wagon" target="_blank"> war wagon</a>, it would be the end of the chavalry. Or a little motor to a crossbow for automatic reload</p><p></p><p>* The next step will be talking about magic creating biopunk or organic technology, machines by living tissues.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LuisCarlos17f, post: 7876815, member: 6802378"] Usually you are imagining PCs with "toys" fighting against monsters without firearms and other gadgets, but you haven't thought about when PCs are tribemen who face an invasion by a higher-level tech. If WotC wants to create a videogame with different playable factions, who will want to play tribemen without spellcarters nor firearms? Usually magic is too expensive to can be used by the masses. Why not noble houses would replace standar armours with powered exosuits, or "cheap" mini-construct carring (anti-ballistic) tower-shields? In my worlds firearms in the towns aren't easy to be used, because temples create [I]cursed[/I] zones against firearms in the zones. And they are too noisy to be used by criminals, o worse, there are supernatural curses against guns. Killed by firearms can come back as spirits to avenge. Or only an adivination spell allows to know where and when a firearm was shooted in that zone. With a simple spell and the body of the victim a spellcaster can know where is the weapon of the murder. And firearms wouldn't be the end of the magic because most of citizens (and even criminals themself) would rather to buy magic bullets for no-lethal damage (sleeping, hold-person, web). And fighters would rather old firearms because they have got a special aura or resonance. They are more expensive or rare, but at least theses allow to be attuned to magic item. And most of firearms are one-shot, because weapons with automatic fire are possible, but too easy to be blocked by magic, psionic or other powers. Vehicles with motor are possible, but the technophobia is too strong when you know in the past some vehicles were cursed and possesed by evil spirits or infernal outsiders. (Do you remember Stephen King's "Carrie" or "Maximum Overdrive"?) Cybertronians (transformers) would nice as D&D PC race being published in April's Food (half seriously half joking). * If magitek or magic technology could creatte a [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel_energy_storage']flywheel energy storage[/URL] to be added to a[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_wagon'] war wagon[/URL], it would be the end of the chavalry. Or a little motor to a crossbow for automatic reload * The next step will be talking about magic creating biopunk or organic technology, machines by living tissues. [/QUOTE]
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