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D&D has a distinctly MAGIC feel. Some settings incorporate technology, but most are very much high fantasy. A great example of D&Dās system implemented into a tech-based game is KOTOR. Computer use and technology is a mandatory part of the game, even going so far as to have it be in the introduction level.
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Thereās also a big difference between what actually qualifies as ātechnologyā versus what players think it is. A pistol, for example, is a high fantasy weapon. Thereās historical context and evidence of them being used as armor-piercing weapons, but if you give a player any kind of firearm you suddenly have an āinsanely overpowered weaponā that ākills in one hitā (which they donāt realize is the same damage as a sword, bow, axe or any other weapon. A gun literally is just thought to be more practical because it requires less skill to learn and use).
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I personally love the mixture of magic and technology. Crystal-powered flamethrowers and arcane cybernetics that let you cast spells. Witches drawing ritual circles they found on Pinterest in sharpie and traversing cyberspace to fight the ghosts of dead facebook accounts. Idk. I just think it's neat.
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How dare you say that the city worth of virgins I sacrificed to that eldrich god is lesser to some mere ātechnical advancesā. I spent sixty years just forging the blood blade to even get the opportunity for the great and mighty Griglac the distorted to listen to my prayer. How dare you downplay the suffering I caused so that I could destroy Ulderan planet of the elves!
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I actually enjoy both in my games, often having one explain the other. Iām the later eras of my setting thereās totally magitech, like trains and guns and one of my characters for my friendās more modern setting is an artificer mech engineer who uses both technomagic and magical infusions to make her creations work! Iām a big fan of magic and I enjoy tech a lot, I feel like my games are pretty in the middle (depending on the vibes of the campaign).
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Well, I played campaign of Course of Stradh once, with techno-kobold artificer/paladin. He tried to make therapy session (atonment ceremony) for our Sorcerer who wanted to sell his soul to a litch. It was fun to have 2 ppl blasting enemies down, one with WH40k bolter pistol, and one with eldritch blasts. Anyway, we were not on planet-nuking level.
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Death star is a bad example because it's in a high tech high fantasy universe.
But no, some crossover happens in some universes. Torchlight I think is one, the Neverwinter stuff has airships now, Skyrim has the dwarves' technology.
My homebrew campaign is in a world where magic is cast using not "mana" or whatever nonsense, but energy is transformed from one state to another - energy from a living person can be taken away entirely and converted into raw electricity, that electricity can be shot as a bolt or further converted into heat to make a fireball, etc. And then there's the government, who turns demons' lifeforce into raw energy, stores it in tesla coils, then uses it to power streetlights.
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The issue with that last quote is the opposite can be said.
The person who buys a gun that can vaporize a man with no training is infinitely easier and completely unearned, wheras the guy who spent his life learning the intricacies of magic to do it had to actually sacrifice his time and energy to do it.
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And theres Palladium games.
Oh? You like Ninja Turtles? Bam! After The Bomb!
Oh! You like high fantasy? Bam! RIFT!
Oh! You like Robotech? Bam! We got that!
Oh! One player wants to play a cyborg wolfman space cop and another wants to play an Atlantean Magic Tattoo user and yet another wants to play a Eldritch Slenderman-esque entity with shadow manipulation super powers? BAM! WE. GOT. THAT. COVERED.
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Shadowrun accomplishes this by having Tech and Magic have a lot of the same overlap, but Tech is actually the safer option. Magic in Shadowrun has a high chance of hurting the caster everytime they use it because "the Metahuman body was never meant to channel mana". But with tech, after the initial investment to have the cyberware installed it works without issue.
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