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james_davis_nicoll) wrote2021-06-27 10:31 am
james_davis_nicoll) wrote2021-06-27 10:31 am
Overthinking
"Using Basic Roleplaying as the template, with the detail iron quenches magic, who would prevail along the border between a metal-using, non-magical society roughly on par with the Song and metal-shunning society with functioning magic?"
Results so far:
Noticing the spell list in BRP is short on useful utilitarian magic, like light a fire or preserve food.
How does a magic using society secure a source of food? Are we talking sylvaculture here?
Why the difference? Maybe just an accident of geology meant metal working paid off faster for one, whereas it remained a curiosity for the other.
How is it these two groups are only just encountering each other? Which leads to an idea about a world whose Antarctica analog is freezing over, cooling the world and opening land bridges to a continent humans have never visited before.
Results so far:
Noticing the spell list in BRP is short on useful utilitarian magic, like light a fire or preserve food.
How does a magic using society secure a source of food? Are we talking sylvaculture here?
Why the difference? Maybe just an accident of geology meant metal working paid off faster for one, whereas it remained a curiosity for the other.
How is it these two groups are only just encountering each other? Which leads to an idea about a world whose Antarctica analog is freezing over, cooling the world and opening land bridges to a continent humans have never visited before.