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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 4581550" data-attributes="member: 54707">John Carter was the first thing I thought of, and, in addition, if you go a route similar to that then you could haves alien species introduced in parallel to monstrous species, perhaps both having been mutated by the disaster (or whatever exact mechanism you decided upon as the reason for why your setting is as it is).That is to say alien species could visit Earth in ways similar to how John Carter ended up on Mars. (The reverse would works for your players as well, as a mechanism for travel to other worlds.)In addition if you are going the primitive, or alternate world modification of science then you might take Victorian era and similar era technologies, such as the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine, steam engines, hot air balloons, wired communications, radio (as had been suggested- but imagine radio waves, and maybe television waves as well, also being able to transmit energies such as sorcery - imagine a Sorcery Radio or a TV of Wizardry - it would be an entirely different beastie would it not?), etc. modify their development over the course of time or even through the agency of sorcery, and develop entirely new technologies. I can suggest these forms of technology and science:1. Modified or alternate world versions of older technologies that were never replaced by other technological developments and so continued to improve over time. Steam engines, mechanical computers, hydro-mechanical engineering, etc.2. Alien technology that has crept into our world, and either been disassembled and reengineered, cannibalized for other purposes, or redesigned for human or monster purposes.3. Human technology that has been blended with science to create a hybrid version of devices which operate to some extent as if both principles (science and sorcery) were necessary for function.4. Collapsed or partially destroyed technology that simply needs repair to function again.5. Abandoned technology. Abandoned because it was too dangerous, experimental, or could never be made to function quite correctly in the past.6. Biological technology. What if modern computational technologies, mathematical methods, electron microscopes, and advanced electronics did not function or had never been invented. How would much older and less well informed biological technologies have developed, not along genetic and molecular vectors, but rather along cellular and organic (organism) paths? Take chemical and cellular/semi-medicinal technologies such as responsible for Frankenstein's monster or My. Hyde -what kinds of creatures, monsters, animals, aliens, or even men would that produce? As a matter of fact a whole sub-branch of biological tech might be in existence to counter-act whatever forces of mutation exists in the background environment. And other forms of biological tech might exists to augment normal people, to further mutations in monsters, to make people sensitive to or better at controlling sorcery, for "biological/eugenic experimentation" and so forth and so on.Mix such biological technologies with alien biological technologies and with sorcery and you could have established an entire complex set of ideas as for how monsters came about, how to create monsters, for alien-human biological interaction, and for methods of creating "heroic supermen" or super-barbarians (a la Thundarr).In my D&D milieu (not like yours, but more standardized fantasy) there is another world in which Elves, Eladrin, etc. live. (Humans live in our world.) In that world magic (Elturgy) is real, however constant exposure to Elturgy or exposure to large doses of Elturgy can and does produce mutations (similar to genetic mutations in people exposed to radiation or exposed to chemical agents and toxins, etc). Sometimes it makes elves, or animals, or whatever is exposed to it into superior versions of themselves, and sometimes the after-effects turn ordinary creatures into monstrous versions of themselves. Sometimes it just changes their appearance, at other times it alters their minds as well. The point is the Elturgy (magic) often has side-effects, some benign, some malignant. Perhaps exposure to sorcery, or certain types of science/technology, or exposure to hybrid sorcery-science might have the same or similar effects in your world. As a matter of fact in my milieu Elves use Elturgy much as we use magic, and have even developed a bio-tech of heir own based upon magic, rather than technology. Or I should say based upon a magical technology. So in that sense it is science fantasy, but again, not like you envision.And finally it occurs to me that your world would be replete with opportunities to Vad and to creep into abandoned and deserted/ruined areas. So it would definitely be fun in that sense.Anywho, you have a lot of background martial to work with.Good luck and Godspeed.</blockquote>

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