Re: You got magic in my scifi game!
I'll admit, one thing that turned me off to Starfinder - besides the gods-awful handling of the weapons - is its reliance (perhaps over-reliance) on D&D style Vancian magic. Besides the fact that I loathe D&D/Vancian magic, it seriously made me wonder if I was even playing a sci-fi game at all at times.
I don't mind psionics - Star Trek and Babylon 5 both had good takes on psionics, notably telepathy and telekinesis - in my sci-fi, but Vancian magic almost never has a good place in it.
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The GURPS Marvel Universe Reboot Project A-G, H-R, and S-Z, and its not-a-wiki-really web adaptation.
Ranoc, a Muskets-and-Magery Renaissance Fantasy Setting
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