Gurps – Psi – Tech – Download as PDF File .pdf), Text File .txt) or read online. Where GURPS Psionic Powers brought you powers of the mind, GURPS Psis. Where GURPS Psionic Powers brought you powers of the mind, GURPS Psis presented the people who wield them, and GURPS Psionic Campaigns showed . For a campaign focusing on this sort of action I would suggest GURPS Psionic Powers, GURPS Psionic Campaigns, GURPS Psi-Tech, and.
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Forcehas villains who are somehow completely immune to magic, thus rendering all the protagonists’ weapons and abilities useless in fighting them. While Rumpel finds it an annoyance, Belle enjoys the stories it tells. How should skills relate to powers? In Grps Miyazaki ‘s Howl’s Moving Castleand to a lesser extent Diana Wynne Jones ‘s book of the same name on which it was loosely based the structure is maintained by the wizard’s pdi-tech. All manner of magically powered technology exists, ranging from magically imbued weapons to speed boats and airships.
Leonard of Quirm, a genius inventor, seems to be advancing Clock Punk technology on the Disc.
The Forgotten Realms has magitek, mostly in magocracies and elven cities: The Air Nomads traveled with the help of gliders supported by airbending. A Discord server focusing on Roleplaying, Sci-Fi, Transhumanism, and discussion of other assorted topics, from psi-teh to boardgames, from politics to philosophy.
This is actually more dangerous than it sounds: The Iron Kingdoms has Mechanika, which is mostly technology fueled by Magic. The Drood Powered Armor is one example.
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The car engine might be powered by a fire elemental, and the telephone may work through the principle of contagionbut this doesn’t affect the man on the street. Varrick already concluded that spirits and science do NOT mix.
Engine Machines in Shikkoku no Sharnoth appear to work like this, though the story tries to deny it. At the end of “May the Best Pet Win”, an example of this is shown when Rainbow Dash’s new pet tortoise Tank flies by wearing a visibly-enchanted propeller on his shell.
Find Psi–tech Posts by Tzeentch. Fantasy of Utter Ridiculousness: In My Little Pony: Twice Blessed apparently has giant magic robots golems, warforged, constructs. Shin Gurpss Tensei games frequently feature portable electronic devices called COMPS that automatically perform the complex magical ritual of summoning demons into the mortal world.
In With Strings Attachedthe Fans operate via magitek, largely through computers. The foundation of this magitek is shakier than assumed, however, and becomes directly relevant to the plot in the second book, when the elemental-based tech starts misbehaving and the protagonists have to find out why.
Small crystals enchanted with a “Voice of the Titans” spell to make microphones.
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Their tech doesn’t make use of psychic power. That bad old science made the magic go away? Imaskar was another extensively magical human empire in the Realms. He also seems to do a lot more Functional Magic than other mages. Imperial technology does not use this, but everyone thinks it does. Originally Posted by chandley. Yet, as surreal as it sounds, it has proven to be true and contributed to the accelerated progress of modern physics in the 20th and 21st centuries, as it explained phenomena that the preceding science was unable to.
We have three Galactic Superpowers powered by energy crystals, along with interstellar portals powered by the planets themselvesplus armies made out of magic powered tanks and artilkery fighting alongside Greek Phalanxes and Roman legion loke units. Metamor City is a world where technology developed alongside magic, it can be hard to tell whether a given device is magical or technological.
This has increasingly meant computers specifically, Apples—ever tried porting magic to XP? Also, compare with Clarke’s Third Law. See the Video Games entry for the Rakata. Gene-engineered Stealth Dragons with vampire genes, no less?
They are essentially inanimate objects given life through magic. They can make a jeep that can ride in midair gurrps turn invisible, then make and mount on it a cannons that shoots ice blasts or rains meteorites on the enemy. One of the core Colleges is the Technology College, which handles the shaping ggurps control of machinery, with sub-Colleges for Energy, Radiation, and Metal and Plastic.
Witness the Hell’s Gate series which has the magical equivalent of computers and genetic engineering, which is used to create dragons of course. In Arcana Magi turps, Mana is a source of energy akin to electricity, with kinetic and potential types. Especially noticeable within the realm of the live-action films.
Fantastic considers magic a science that simply works with a different set of rules albeit rules gueps can’t quite comprehend, so he might be totally wrong. In the New World of Darknessthis relationship was flipped, with magic instead drawing from “natural” forces.
I’m looking forward to getting this book! At the start of the story, the world is going through a fabrial renaissance, and while they are still primitive in gurp ways, they are making leaps and strides.