>Fantasy Setting >Magic is rare and might not even be magical

>>55185026
>magic is mined from the ground and used like a fossile fuel to power all sorts of magitek
>magic allows hot and cold running water for the masses and giant robot mechs

>>55185026
>Still has monsters and creatures that are far from those of real world

Welcome to dwarf fortress

>humans are not artificial constructs created by the gods to wage war against each other.

>>55185026
Good taste, smug animu girl.

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>Too much magic can ruin a fantasy. Magic is a very powerful ingredient and it unbalances everything. You can't put in a lot of magic and then still have a medieval setting or the same social structure. The existence of magic would radically deform any society or culture in major, major ways. If you look at the history of the real Middle Ages, magic was very present. Of course it didn’t really work but they didn’t know that. They believed in witches and killed and burned many witches and wizards. They believed in alchemy and angels and demons. There were also doubters so I try to replicate that. When magic works, it works a little uncertainly and it’s not something everyone can work. I don’t like the idea of a magic system, which some fantasists use. If magic is systematic, then it’s not magic and more of a fake science. Magic is the supernatural and it’s beyond nature. It’s dangerous, uncontrollable and unpredictable, which is the flavour I try to deal with. Really my models were the great fantasists like Tolkien. There’s a very magical feel to Middle-earth but there’s very little on-stage magic. Gandalf never tries to solve the problem by whipping up a potion or a spell. When he’s attacked he doesn’t throw lightning bolts from his fingernails, but picks up a sword like everyone else.

>>55185048
(Ironically all races in my games save for warforged are results of evolution, even the drider and gnolls who are usually acursed race or demons)

>>55185122
Yeah but how was his tax policy on magic?

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>>55185026
>Fantasy Setting
>Magic is rare and might not even be magical
>Fantastic creatures are completely realistic, things like "Dragons" being large komodo dragons which spit a poison which "burns" on bare skin. Harpies are just the real Harpy eagle, maybe upscaled a little bit to allow them to prey on small humans
>Mayoi is fucking dead.

>>55185151
What kind of food is 'tax policy'?

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>>55185034
>>55185185
So monster hunter?

>>55185185
i mean, you aren't wrong.

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>Magic is actually the result of nanomachines in the air binding themselves to people and creating weird effects.
Donut steel

>>55185026
>Magic is rare
>class rarity is relative to general population of the world
Its the 1% but for magic

>>55185185
>Mayoi is fucking dead.
No more than usual.

>>55187655
Do you even Might and Magic?

>>55187655
I hate this "twist" so much. Made me drop a series that I was really enjoying up to that point.

What is with all the shit threads today

>>55190207
/tg/ always has shit threads on days ending in y.