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what playable stuff are you hoping for?
NevynK:
Well I usually play a magic user but lately my characters revolve around brute strength so I'm hoping for equips tha support a vanila mortal taking on the baddies, basically a high tech van helsing or if not stats for a tech wiz support character hmmm maybe a junkie precog....
.... btw on a side note I'm going to be up at Goose Creek, South Carolina from the middle of march for quite a while (doing my A School ;D ) and wondering if anybody round there's gonna be running a game or something
TheMouse:
Unfortunately, technology and magic in the Dresdenverse don't get along well together. Perhaps you could side step this issue to some degree by making a Wizard who was really good at artifice but terrible at on the fly casting. It would lack the superficial aspects of Van Helsing, but it would hit up the gadget use.
NevynK:
By that I assume you mean artifice as a synonym of crafting or making devices and not strategy or deciet, although as we've learned from harry assumptions are usually a bad thing lol :P . Nah I'm trying to stay off the magic for a while the D&D/BESM/WM sessions I would play in usually ended up like this
GM: You come upon the camp of a horde of orcs/brigands/soldiers/ect so far none have noticed you and if you're careful you should be able to sneak around....
Player 1: I'll use an invisilibility item/spell/skill/sneak/roll avoidance ect
Player 2-6:" "
Me: I'll use a reveal all to find any sentries!
Everybody else: :-\ ......
GM: Umm are you sure?
Me: Yeah and just in case I'll use a delayed fireball/energy blast ect on the command tent!.....
50 rounds later.....
GM:Allright all 120 of the soldiers are dead now we can FINALLY move on to the story
5 rounds later
GM: You enter the cave where the tome you seek lies but directly ahead you notice a sleeping wyvern laying across the entrance to the next cave.
Free Action
Me: I sneak up to the wyvern and stick my staff up its @$$...
Everyone: :'( .................
Its fun but I tend to end up being buried in flying soda cans and funnions bags, not cool. Me as warrior or theif preferably warrior/theif is similar but a bit more expected and the extra hp helps ;D but in something modern I gotta go tech chrazy or just crazy crazy nothing beats taking down the forces of evil in a straightjacket!
TheMouse:
Yeah, I meant the creation of devices. I play too much Exalted, where the word specifically means the creation of magical items in many contexts.
The problem with mundane technology is that it's fragile in the Dresden-verse. It breaks in the presence of magic. That's an issue if you plan to use it to fight supernatural things, because it'll leave you without your gadgets completely. If you make magical items which accomplish the types of effects you want, you end up with something which is functionally identical to a high tech gadget, but it happens to be a stick covered in runes. Oh, and it doesn't stop working when a wizard casts a spell nearby.
NevynK:
Actually so far it seems to be only wizards or other human practitioners that make magic go wonkey. So far the fae and vamp magics we've seen have no effect. Also for the most part I was thinking gadgets as weapons or defenses, maybe some investigating ones but mainly instead of batman using his billions joe blow goes to the fae for help and gets more than he bargained for sure his joerangs cut through undead like Harry goes through VW parts but all the same being indebted to the fae is harsh! Something along those line and since their magic seems to not make tech go kablooe they could probably work something in there to ward against the natural hex field and powers of the human wiz's
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