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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Turanil" data-source="post: 1488990" data-attributes="member: 9646">Traveller 20 seems the closer to the kind of sci-fi game you like. (And I got a look at your story hour too...)Anyway, what's the difference between magic and science fiction technology in a rpg? I think where a mage just gestures a little to have a spell cast; technology just requires some appropriate equipment. As such nearly the same effects could be achieved: powerful magical effect require high level spells, while powerful technological effects require a bigger equipment. So when it comes to resurrecting someone, you can do it as in the "Fifth Element" movie; that is, a high tech machine recreates a whole human being from a sample of ADN. Now, how far are players prone to accept such kind of things as technology instead of magic? However, it looks to me less implausible such kind of machine rather than space-jump. At least in theory the former doesn't violate the known laws of physics. Space-jump is a great sci-fi idea, but also a complete nonsense (and even if going through a black hole could bring you into another part of the universe, you don't choose where you emerge, and you emerge in the form of energy particles only).</blockquote>