Draco18s wrote:
> In article <_MmdnZHLEI97HlzaRVnyvAA@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> s.r.clarkstone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
>> The fantasy and cyberpunk sides seem stuck together is a rather odd
way,
>> though I can't describe why. And the cyberspace is the usual cyberpunk
>> stuff (i.e. implausible), but what else is cyberpunk for?
>
> ShadowRun was supposed to be a combined Magic + Cyberpunk. And it fits
> together AMAZINGLY well, you have no idea. Flavor wise, it does seem
odd, but
> keep in mind that technology was developing quickly and then "magic came
> back" as it were. When it did so it fell into a different niche that
> technology didn't occupy (and thus, are mutually exlusive: the more
cyberware
> you have, the lower your "magic rating," the more cyberware someone else
has,
> the harder it is to hit them with benificial magic (healing and the
like) as
> they aren't "all there" (losing a limb /technically/ doesn't effect your
> essence, but getting an artifical limb will lower it), but tech can
one-up
> because anyone can use it and certain spell effects don't work "through"
> technology (i.e. illusions and other mind effecting spells don't work
through
> video cameras)).
Nice, though I am not into RPGs much.
<rant>Certainly much better than my most-disliked premise for fiction:
magic returning and technology stopping working. It seems that the laws
of physics that make "technology" work are not the same ones that make
life work. Because technology has some magic "non-natural" stuff in it
so it isn't supposed to exist, whereas life is "all natural". About the
only real excuse is that something has carefully thought, and ensured
that life continues to work while things that it considers "technology"
don't.
Now a story about robots taking over the world after all life dies off
due to tiny changes in a physical field making the crazy hacks that life
uses rather less effective (the machines, being more orderlyly designed
were less reliant on the precise physics).</rant>
>> Well, I was really thinking more of Accelerando:
>> http://www.accelerando.org/
>
> I'll have to take a peek later.
Read it yet?
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