I think quite a few people would be upset if Paizo introduced starships, laser blasters, and forcefield armor into Golarian. There's been plenty of back and forth on flintlocks.As another example, the Advanced Players Guide is supposed to have rules/suggestions for running space campaigns. Unless I've missed something, Golarion does not have a spaceport anywhere. :)We have no reason to assume that one doesn't exist on Triaxus, Bretheda, or Apostae, though.We already have these in Golarion—check out the description of Numeria.
The existence of high-tech science-fiction technology is a lot more palatable to many (myself included) than modern guns, likely because things like starships and laser blasters and forcefield armor are a lot closer to magic than technology.
Oh, I stand corrected then.
Wow, yeah... I really don't like mixing genre's unless I'm running an Anime themed RPG (which tends to have wierd stuff like that built into it, looks at Star Ocean series with a jaundiced eye).
Well it's been a tradition in D&D since the very beginning. For instance, Robilar found a laser blaster and used it in his explorations of Castle Greyhawk. Then there is his and Mordenkainen's expedition to the City of the Gods. Also there was a portal to Barsoom in Castle Greyhawk. In fact this kind of thing was pretty common in the pulp fantasy that D&D was originally based on. For instance in one of the original Conan stories (I think it was the second), Tower of the Elephant, a space alien appears. Back in those days the line between fantasy and sci-fi wasn't as firm as it is today.
Of course none of this means it's wrong to dislike blasters and starships in you're fantasy, but I personally like doing that sort of thing. For instance in my worlds Mind Flayers are aliens from some unknown area of the universe. They once had a great empire spanning several entire galaxies, but now only control a small fraction of that territory. However they are still quite a formidable force, having advanced technology and a host of slaves from across the universe. On one of my campaign worlds a civilization of advanced technology used to exist, but fell millenia ago. This civilization also had great arcane knowledge and thus studies of this ancient civilization have resulted in modern wizardry, and so to has much technology been discovered, but is very far away from being understood enough to reproduce it.
The existence of high-tech science-fiction technology is a lot more palatable to many (myself included) than modern guns, likely because things like starships and laser blasters and forcefield armor are a lot closer to magic than technology.
Clarke's Law, 'tis awesome.
I think quite a few people would be upset if Paizo introduced starships, laser blasters, and forcefield armor into Golarian. There's been plenty of back and forth on flintlocks.As another example, the Advanced Players Guide is supposed to have rules/suggestions for running space campaigns. Unless I've missed something, Golarion does not have a spaceport anywhere. :)We have no reason to assume that one doesn't exist on Triaxus, Bretheda, or Apostae, though.We already have these in Golarion—check out the description of Numeria.
The existence of high-tech science-fiction technology is a lot more palatable to many (myself included) than modern guns, likely because things like starships and laser blasters and forcefield armor are a lot closer to magic than technology.
Oh, I stand corrected then.
Wow, yeah... I really don't like mixing genre's unless I'm running an Anime themed RPG (which tends to have wierd stuff like that built into it, looks at Star Ocean series with a jaundiced eye).
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Clarke's Law, 'tis awesome.
Eh. It's a tautology, so it never wowed me (if it is distinguishable, it isn't sufficiently advanced).
Plus, I can always tell the laser pistols from the wand by which one takes batteries :)
But I plan to take advantage of the general Clarke's Law idea at PaizoCon. :P
What I'd liketo know is whether or not there is information on robots in the Gamesmastery Guide. I'm going to be using robots in my upcoming campaign, so I need rules for robots. Right now I'm thinking of modifying the animated object stats to represent any robots my players might encounter.
The existence of high-tech science-fiction technology is a lot more palatable to many (myself included) than modern guns, likely because things like starships and laser blasters and forcefield armor are a lot closer to magic than technology.
See, I wold have an issue with 'modern' guns. Tactical assault rifles or semi-auto pistols are a bit over the top, but I think blackpower style firearms and even early revolvers/repeaters are perfectly acceptable.
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See, I wold have an issue with 'modern' guns. Tactical assault rifles or semi-auto pistols are a bit over the top, but I think blackpower style firearms and even early revolvers/repeaters are perfectly acceptable.
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Wayfinder #2 and the latest issue of Kobold Quarterly have articles on guns, FYI. :)
The existence of high-tech science-fiction technology is a lot more palatable to many (myself included) than modern guns, likely because things like starships and laser blasters and forcefield armor are a lot closer to magic than technology.See, I wold have an issue with 'modern' guns. Tactical assault rifles or semi-auto pistols are a bit over the top, but I think blackpower style firearms and even early revolvers/repeaters are perfectly acceptable.
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