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Technomancy
g33k:
--- Quote from: Ghostfreak on February 01, 2018, 05:21:50 AM --- Looking for ideas on how one would be able to do a technomancer (combinig magic and technology to great effect.) Could someone point in the right direction or maybe even offer ideas of how to accomplish this? Many thanks in advance!
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Within the "canonical" Dresdenverse, I think it's "Sponsored Magic" and similar non-Mortal options are the only way to go.
Of course, you may not be playing in the "canonical" Dv; or your own take on it (and the group's) may be different.
Just be sure that pursuing your own fun vision doesn't tromp all over others' vision of the setting where you share the play...
whitelaughter:
Should have thought of it before: what you want is written up in detail in another of Evil Hat's games, Spirit of the Century.
Further, since a 'gimme' of that setting is that PCs are all born on 1/1/01, you could take an 18 year old in a modern campaign and actually have them *be* a centurion.
g33k:
Another thought: what if you allow "technomancy" as a separate & incompatible branch of tech-centric magic...ish...stuff... Read the hard drive on a computer without touching it? Yep, can-do. Read somone's mind? ??!? Pthbbbt! No such thing as magic, everyone knows that!!!
whitelaughter:
--- Quote from: g33k on August 04, 2018, 06:47:05 AM ---Another thought: what if you allow "technomancy" as a separate & incompatible branch of tech-centric magic...ish...stuff... Read the hard drive on a computer without touching it? Yep, can-do. Read somone's mind? ??!? Pthbbbt! No such thing as magic, everyone knows that!!!
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And it interferes with magic the same way magic interferes tech? Would be appropriate for debunkers, who would constantly get proof that magic doesn't exist.
g33k:
--- Quote from: whitelaughter on August 07, 2018, 12:50:17 PM --- ... Would be appropriate for debunkers, who would constantly get proof that magic doesn't exist.
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Not sure that it WOULD be so very "debunking" -- this kind of magic-ish stuff would constantly be proving that TECHNOMANCY exists -- hundreds of Petaflops on a cellphone, fully-immersive all-5-senses VR from an Oculus Rift, data-read from a powered-down device, etc.
That is to say, "impossible" and "unexplainable" ... sure it's "techno" flavored, but it nevertheless has that magical taint of "this isn't possible"
It's just -- for the debunker -- that the stupid, superstitious, old-fashioned mumbo-jumbo doesn't work. Stick THAT in your pipe and Fuego it, Harry Dresden! ;D But for the rational technomancer, there's likely to be a niggling little worry that THEIR technomancy is still... well... magic. It just has that taint.
FWIW -- I'd likely look at some of the Storyteller/Mage (WW/OPP) sources, and consider THEIR technomagic stuff.
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