In article <o5ydndL7OP3cz1ranZ2dnUVZ8tHinZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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s.r.clarkstone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> Draco18s wrote:
> > In article <_MmdnZHLEI97HlzaRVnyvAA@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > 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>
That doesn't make much sense.
Though, in a way the Stone & Sky series aluded to there being something
like
that (what with magic dying and the rise of "natural" stuff and then way
back
in the history of the world was a purely mechanical existence, and way in
the
future was a lifeform based on sodium (they sprayed water at each
other--no
really)).
> >> Well, I was really thinking more of Accelerando:
> >> http://www.accelerando.org/
> >
> > I'll have to take a peek later.
>
> Read it yet?
Read the blurb, which reminded me a lot of the game a friend is running
using
the ShadowRun rules, but his own universe.
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