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mythcantor:
I'd like to use you all shamelessly.

Basically I've been running an RPG for the last 11 months or so dealing with people who learn to travel between several interconnected worlds, including modern day Earth.  During the last two gaming sessions, the people of Earth became aware of magic when a really powerful ancient bad guy resurrected the ghosts of Earth's dragons from before magic was bound up about two thousand years ago and essentially used it as his powerbase and weapon to take control.

He's gone now, and the dragons are all put away, but magic is back on Earth, many governments crumbled, economic shock has collapsed most businesses, and lots and lots of people are dead from the resurgence of magic (and some magic creatures).  Paranoia and superstition are running rampant, and now those governments that remain know that there are other worlds out there who can essentially pop open doors behind their borders at any time, leading to security ramp-ups on epic scales.  The characters couldn't stay and help put the mess back straight because the bad guy had a lot of other bad things happening in other worlds, but they did get a group of people to start helping magic users not take the left hand path.  Unfortunately, that's about maybe 150 people in this group, operating in secret, with tens of thousands of awakening powerful practicioners worldwide who are mostly trying to hide from fearful cultures and governments.

What I'd like is if people who feel so inclined can come up with some characters and situation to throw into this mess.  The characters won't have to be human, they could have been aware of magic before, or they could be just waking up to it now.  Or, they could still not have magic, but rather just the moxie to do something.  Frankly, I'd just like to shamelessly use your guys' ideas to add a little diversity of thought to my story when the characters get back to paying attention to how things are falling apart and taking new shape on Earth.  I figure, between us, we can come up with a really good back story about what happens worldwide over the next several months.  I do want to clarify, I'm not trying to clandestinely start up a RPG on the side, but rather get some ideas how the world would be affected by such things from more than just my own narrow point of view.

If anyone is interested, I'll post a little more descriptive of a history up here to get started.

(Note: If this belongs in another place, please just let me know)

El Diablo:
For a real powerful bad guy to take down - I ran a campaign using third edition rules where I sent wave after wave of magically summoned Ice demons against the heroes. I was continuously reminded by two "rules lawyers" about how summoning cost the mage levels and such.

I was getting around that with the sub story of slaves being delivered to the icy retreat, they were placed in a magical construct and of course, horribly killed to power the device to give the energy to the Caster.

Unfortunately, the magazine "dungeon" ran a story one week before they made it to the lair to fight the bad guy - which coincidentally, had an artifact that did much the same thing.

They went after the slave ships at that point. Bastards.

mythcantor:

--- Quote from: El Diablo on October 13, 2008, 02:00:19 AM ---For a real powerful bad guy to take down - I ran a campaign using third edition rules where I sent wave after wave of magically summoned Ice demons against the heroes. I was continuously reminded by two "rules lawyers" about how summoning cost the mage levels and such.

I was getting around that with the sub story of slaves being delivered to the icy retreat, they were placed in a magical construct and of course, horribly killed to power the device to give the energy to the Caster.

Unfortunately, the magazine "dungeon" ran a story one week before they made it to the lair to fight the bad guy - which coincidentally, had an artifact that did much the same thing.

They went after the slave ships at that point. Bastards.

--- End quote ---

Damn.  I hate when unseen, outside forces render assistance to the forces of good.

El Diablo:
S'ok, I tossed a deck of wondrous things on board one of the ships they liberated.

Campaign was voted over by the players shortly after :)

Kristine:

--- Quote from: mythcantor on October 12, 2008, 05:34:27 PM ---What I'd like is if people who feel so inclined can come up with some characters and situation to throw into this mess.  The characters won't have to be human, they could have been aware of magic before, or they could be just waking up to it now.  Or, they could still not have magic, but rather just the moxie to do something.  Frankly, I'd just like to shamelessly use your guys' ideas to add a little diversity of thought to my story when the characters get back to paying attention to how things are falling apart and taking new shape on Earth.  I figure, between us, we can come up with a really good back story about what happens worldwide over the next several months.  I do want to clarify, I'm not trying to clandestinely start up a RPG on the side, but rather get some ideas how the world would be affected by such things from more than just my own narrow point of view.

If anyone is interested, I'll post a little more descriptive of a history up here to get started.

(Note: If this belongs in another place, please just let me know)


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Some cultures never gave up totally in the beliefs of magic and true scientist would just treat this as another form of science subject to different unknown laws. 

Do you have new 'laws' for this magic and is it subject to human belief and history or just are you making it up as you go along?  can anyone pull anything from a mythology or is there guiding principals that work all over the world?

To make sure I (we?) don't take you in a direction you don't want to go, can you give a little more on the principles/protocols you want to follow?

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