Iron Gods Tech background


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I haven't gotten any of the materials yet, so I apologize if this is already covered/answered or is otherwise a dumb question ;)

The thing in particular I'm wondering about is the relationship between technology and magic (as used in the AP)?

My thought is like this - if anyone recalls, some time ago, there was a very good PC game called Arcanum which, very steampunky, involved both technology and magic in a kind of diametrically opposed relationship. That is, they didn't simply cancel each other out - they actively messed each other up. It's a bit like the Harry Dresden novels where the magic of the wizard ruins technology when he's around it.

Anyway, it made for some very interesting times, depending what path you took.

I don't expect, from what I've read of the descriptions thus far, for that to be quite the same case as Pathfinder seems more all inclusive (hence its beauty) but I was wondering if Iron Gods included anything similar to the above.


Given that you can have a +1 laser pistol, I don't think tech and magic are in any way opposed. I think it's more... technology and magic are like biology and physics; the two are different in many ways, similar in more ways than you'd think from an outside perspective, and capable of working together.

And yes, that makes technomagic like biophysics.

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