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When I am talking about social and economic realism, I am generally talking about people who have realistic social and economic responses to the events in the campaign. For an example of social realism, everyone has their own complex motivations that underlie their actions (even if they do not realize that they have those motivations), so villains should have a reason for their villainy other than just being evil and heroes should have a reason for their heroics other than just being good (and the plans of villains should logically reflect their reasons for villainy and the methods of heroes should logically reflect their reasons for heroism). For an example of economic realism, societies where wizards are capable of generating high quality light for cheap will not hunt whales for lantern oil and societies where anyone is capable of contributing to ceremonial magic should not have widespread poverty (as the availability of magical energy allows for massive gains it economic productivity and the ability of anyone to contribute to ceremonial magic should allow for a baseline Struggling income).
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Certainly, in either case I'd expect whale hunting/poverty to be less common than historically, but in a setting with social/economic realism, I wouldn't expect them to be completely absent (although I wouldn't shoot down a setting where they are absent as outright unrealistic).
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07-12-2018, 09:13 AM | #36 |
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I don't think this is right. It seems to me that cyberpunk is an SF version of noir that presents many of the same tropes (and this goes back to 1960s precursors of cyberpunk such as Dick and Delaney). That is, it's not realistic but a cinematic rendering of the "realism" trope. Grimdark fantasy and iron age supers are other examples of this approach, to my mind.
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Not that C-Punk is realistic, but it's 'close enough' I don't have to do any work. Unlike with Star Trek, which would be hard to depict a Trekian homeworld well and give the Players the sense of it's utopianism in the face of the wild-west fringes with out them having a hefty buy-in. |
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*Many of whom, admittedly, sort of got involved in crime by accident. If you opt to read the comic, make special note of the histories of Grex and Burke.
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"She's a druid so she doesn't feel the cold" Amazing how fantasy tropes seem to coincide with other types of fantasy, its like Halloween were female characters seem to automatically multi-class as Slutty-XXXX
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