Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magicka Obscura
I’d get to laugh at every single wizard trying to board a train without it blowing up due to magic fucking up technology before I get screwed over by one of the soulless, greedy, vapid, mouth-breathing creatures known as gnomes.
I cannot understand why there’s no modern sequel in the works. A well loved classic RPG with steam punk elements and union themes seems like a no-brainer in the current environment.
And the all string soundtrack was a perfect choice.
Earthsea seems pretty chill. Especially Ged.
What counts as “magic”, exactly? E.g. the world of BLEACH has 3 wholy distinct sources of supernatural power, only one of which looks like traditional, wizards & witches magic. Is vampirism magic? What about superstrength in Norse mythology?
I think this comment did a good job of explaining it
Magic is just unexplained science
Princess Bubblegum?
Hey you, you’re finally awake…
Hope the console commands will work for you…
Do innate powers count as magic? Because if they do, living in Tamriel would suck… unless you happen to be born a god, of course.
I’d just go be a bard in a tavern. Drink, sing and play instruments.
Don’t tour around Helgen
I’d aim for one of the rural areas in Discworld.
Relatively calm life, as long as you keep the local witch on your side.
Idk, maybe Xanth would be better than Discworld. Slightly less likely to die in Xanth, and most decent guys end up with a beautiful wife.
And if you ever get stuck you can always take a stroll down the Runthis Bayou and everyone you meet along the way will give you some ideas for what to do with yourself.
I’d have spend a year or two wildin’ out in Ankh-Morpork.
I’d go to uberwald
That’s just Twilight with another faction, much higher body count, and way too much Europe
As long as no sourcerer drops by :)
I prefer sweetcerers
Just stay on the good side of the local witch.
Roshar. With all the spren and fabrials, I could still have a decent time.
Besides continuous war and blatant racism/classism in every aspect of every society, most of them with either fully blown feudalism and slavery or a untouchable aristocracy :D
Spren are cool though…
PS nice username!
Don’t even need magic… just non-brown eyes.
Interesting choice. As much as I love the setting, I couldn’t see myself living in a place that has hurricanes on a weekly basis.
Really? I feel like Scadrial is the better choice here. Though I have finished the Lost Metal yet, so something crazy may happen at the end that makes me reconsider this lol.
I’m an expert on one-armed Herdazian jokes. ‘Lopen,’ my mother always says, ‘you must learn these to laugh before others do. Then you steal the laughter from them, and have it all for yourself.’ She is a very wise woman.
Lord of the Rings, but fuck Gondor… I’ll be chilling in the Shire living like fucking king.
Same, but I’d probably go with Bree. I’m a bit tall for the Shire. Also, Bree seems a little more lively and they have a thing called ‘pints.’
Live in the Shire, start up a pub called “Giant Beers” which serves pints, be beloved by the Shirefolk and live in pastoral luxury
And fuck as many midgets as your heart desires.
They do pints?? I’m getting one.
Harry Potter. I’d be a normal muggle, blissfully ignorant of all the drama going on :)
So nothing changes?
Not at all! The entire Harry Potter franchise wouldn’t exist!
Exactly. That’s the entire point lol
If you live in the magical world in Harry Potter, wouldn’t that make you a squib?
But you’d be living in England and probably get stabbed by some chav’s unregistered butter knife
The rest of the world exists in hp, not just the UK.
Percy Jackson. My life would be normal!
Not something from an anime because by season 4, there’s like a dozen people that can destroy a small town with one move. By season 8, they’re doing planets.
But at the same time, if you train very hard you’ll be able to do that too. That’s how it usually goes for characters without magical abilities.
A quick reminder that Muten Roshi lived through the entirety of Dragon Ball (bar the couple times literally everyone in the planet died, temporarily)
I appreciate the bracketed comment and double down on my original statement lol
In the Harry Potter universe non magical people live blissfully unaware of magical people and are pretty much left to our own affairs with little to no intervention or malicious actions by the magical, the magical even setup an entire ministry dedicated to maintaining that status quo. It’s probably the most boring and unimaginative choice but it sounds like the one in which I could live with the greatest ease and safety.
Except for the early 90’s in the UK. That wasn’t so great.
Hard disagree. Muggles are kept shrouded in ignorance, but they’re still fairly routinely terrorized by dark wizards and magical beasts. The Ministry makes an effort, but fails when the going gets tough.
Excluding wods with magic in a contemporary or utopian setting, maybe some DnD world? You don’t need to have magic abilities to use magic items and plenty of settings are reasonably advanced.
You don’t have to exclude worlds with magic in a utopian or contemporary setting, what examples do you have?
Kiki’s Delivery Service?
Well Harry potter has already been mentioned as a contemporary example. Can’t think of any utopian examples tbh, reckon they are hard to write good stories for. But since these sort of worlds works be obvious picks I figured I’d post the next next thing.
Azeroth, World of Warcraft. Rogues and warriors kick ass, and are still very powerful, even without magic.
