I’d get to laugh at every single wizard trying to board a train without it blowing up due to magic fucking up technology before I get screwed over by one of the soulless, greedy, vapid, mouth-breathing creatures known as gnomes.
I cannot understand why there's no modern sequel in the works. A well loved classic RPG with steam punk elements and union themes seems like a no-brainer in the current environment.
I think the modern equivalents sort of got swallowed by Eberron - to make the setting not-shitty for tabletop Eberron removed the opposition and the setting ended up much less thematic… but it sort of stole the spotlight.
Wakfu’s World of Twelve. I wouldn’t mind being an ecaflip or pandawa or even just an ouginak but knowing me I’d just end up as something lame like a Iop or Enutrof or some other boring class.
What counts as “magic”, exactly? E.g. the world of BLEACH has 3 wholy distinct sources of supernatural power, only one of which looks like traditional, wizards & witches magic. Is vampirism magic? What about superstrength in Norse mythology?
Not something from an anime because by season 4, there’s like a dozen people that can destroy a small town with one move. By season 8, they’re doing planets.
In the Harry Potter universe non magical people live blissfully unaware of magical people and are pretty much left to our own affairs with little to no intervention or malicious actions by the magical, the magical even setup an entire ministry dedicated to maintaining that status quo. It’s probably the most boring and unimaginative choice but it sounds like the one in which I could live with the greatest ease and safety.
Hard disagree. Muggles are kept shrouded in ignorance, but they’re still fairly routinely terrorized by dark wizards and magical beasts. The Ministry makes an effort, but fails when the going gets tough.
Ooo, if you aren’t magical when you get there. There is an infinite number of things that will make you. But more importantly I want to live in a place that silly.
Does that count as a magical world? There’s some sci-fi technology in it and the Pokémon seem to be able to manipulate some forces a bit mysteriously but they seem more like exaggerrated fantasy versions of real life animals. Seems like magic usually involves a bit more explicit reference to “magic” which is usually a singular force responsible for many feats very strongly linked to will of individuals.
Everything goes dark. You open your eyes. You are standing on a bridge. A warm salty breeze is in the air. Birds fly over. A fish splashes in the water. You could go anywhere, do anything, a whole new world is open to you. But you stay put for now and enjoy this peaceful bridge.
A child runs by. She avoids making eye contact and runs behind you. Then another, and another. “Kids these days”, you think, “always in a hurry.” Another child approaches, before he can slip by, you turn, and make eye contact. It’s on!
You each bring out your Pokémon and oh god, oh god, oh god, it’s god. The unfathomable, immortal deity who shaped the entire world, and it is taking orders from a child! and you have… a magikarp.
Before you can even speak, a blast of energy strikes your fish, killing it instantly. You are knocked back, stunned. The child frisks your pockets and takes your wallet. Everything goes dark. You open your eyes. You are standing on a bridge. A warm salty breeze is in the air…
Excluding wods with magic in a contemporary or utopian setting, maybe some DnD world? You don't need to have magic abilities to use magic items and plenty of settings are reasonably advanced.
Well Harry potter has already been mentioned as a contemporary example. Can't think of any utopian examples tbh, reckon they are hard to write good stories for. But since these sort of worlds works be obvious picks I figured I'd post the next next thing.
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