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Originally Posted by evileeyore
I take umbrage at the notion that a utopian socialism like Star Trek is economically or socially unrealistic... (it hurts my idealistically utopian communist soul)
C-Punk is close enough to 'real' I don't even need to do any work.
I agree that Soaps and Supes are completely 'unrealistic'. The suspenders get a lot of work.
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Originally Posted by jason taylor
Sometimes attempting verisimilitude kills itself if you go overboard. One of my problems with Yrth (otherwise a quite likable production) is that the magic is to mundane. When you have magical elevators in hotels it takes the point away. Tolkienite magic is strange and, magical and paradoxically is easier to believe for that reason.
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I agree.
Yrth never really worked for me as a setting. The best game mechanical treatment of magic is mage the ascension. Gurps did a good job of preserving the concepts for the licensed version.