How do you like your modern fantasy?

Not him, but he probably means to actually have them mixed i.e. don't have a totally normal "surface" world that's 100% mundane humans and a magic "underground" that's 100% fairies, wizards, demons, etc. The two should mix to some degree, possibly by having bits and pieces of magic scattered about--for example, the occasional witch's "hut" in an otherwise normal run-down neighborhood or a werewolf motorcycle gang in rural areas--rather than a single massive magical area where everything congregates and is treated as its own separate thing.

This But also remind yourself to not skip the actual fantasy aspect, knights and wizards, rescuing princesses. taverns and giant rats invading basements. Not exactly as such perhaps but try to take a fantastic spin on things.

For perspective, take account of modern wonders: travel across the world is super easy, satellite images has pretty much made discovery of any new landmasses pretty hard and there's no one-race countries thanks to the ease of travel, unless someone closes down their borders completely there's gonna be orcs in High elf country.

Also shadowrun is a pretty bad example of modern fantasy, since the fantastic elements are just slapped onto some crappy sci-fi.

>In Nigeria on business
>Hail cab
>Nigga drives like crazy
>I ask WTF is wrong with him

"Do not worry brodda, I have strong magic. 30 years I drive and neva cresh because of dis charm."

>He's got a necklace with magical substances sealed inside a small leopard skin pouch"

Africa is the last fantasy land in the world

I like my modern fantasy to be a magical world under the surface of the normal day-to-day. This world doesn't hide from you but instead had no business with you, until now. Pic related is the best example of modern fantasy IMO

>have to perform magic transfusions on drained mages
>more mana pools are tainted and gotta be tossed out after running iffy detection spells
>clerics performing transfusions knowingly with tainted mana; they mean well... and there are treatments to manage the condtion (though extremely pricey)

>persons intentionally spreading curses that have affected them as trust weapons because they reduced the penalty
>Typhoid Maries of magic create epidemic
>spell catchers - persons fetishizing the collection of curses and magical maladies start appearing in the modern age and begin ticking off their lists; subsequently the sister fetish- spell slingers- get their jollies by spreading them

>How do you like your modern fantasy?

Hyper Police is the only modern fantasy I've seen and actually enjoyed.

P I N K
M O H A W K

>my animu is a legitimate form of media

Modern, not cyberpunk you gopher.

We're not there YET.

I like modern fantasy where fantastical shit exists, but it's just hard to find

Like a mysterious shop that sells candy and more...unique items for "special" customers who know what to say or do. Like Bed, Bath, and Beyond.

Or a lazy (but good at hiding his nature) vampire night security guard who periodically gets harassed by annoying goth/edgy kids who want him to be their "dark master" when he just wants to shitpost on anonymous image boards all night

I despise the whole fantasy hidden in plain sight sort of settings and worst of all, as said, Shadowrun is a shitty version of this with a cyberpunk setting with elves and orcs slapped onto it as an afterthought.

I want a setting where the shit is so normal you call in an exorcist to deal with spirits the same way you call the pest control guys to deal with bugs.

You know you've fucked up if you're in a certain area of the woods after dark because the weird fey creatures will get you and there's not a whole lot anyone can do about it.

When the king comes into town his personal guard have swords at their hips and pistols under their coats and a wizard is part of the detail to make sure there isn't a cursed item of some sort in the president's hotel room or some bound spirit lingering waiting to do something.

>Literaly fucked
I wonder, how do you have sex with a state?

Vampires are a codeword for jews.
Pic related, notice the nose

With a large amount of lawyers, judges and permission from the presidency. The lawyers and judges write that you had in fact sex with the state of California.

Now you don't actually fuck it since borders are a social construct and such you having sex with a state needs to be a social construct.

That just seems weird to me. Even in ancient and medieval legends magic was mostly an encroachment of the abnormal on the normal. Then again I'm a hypocritical Naruto fan so feel free to disregard.

To solidify my point...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugchasing

Modern fantasy. Modern magical realm.

if you think bugchasing is normal or even accepted then you need to spend WAYYYY less time on /pol/

Show me evidence that this mans magic doesn't work.

I think you literally don't understand what the word "literally" means.

Do you even browse /pol/?
Nobody speaks about bugchasing there

With the Frog Brothers dropping knowledge bombs

...

>Edgy humor can only como from one place
>/pol/
Can we please end this meme?

It isn't. That's why they had prison time for an uncurable, expensive-to-manage disease. Then they decriminalize/downgrade the seriousness of the idea, which will be punishing the poor for it.

Magical realm isn't acceptable or normal either.

You're more often going to see some dude cut their hand and attempt to splash people. Like an acid attack, but just some fuck with HIV.

If we're talking about Africa... There are tribes who think fucking a virgin will cure AIDS. (There are also tribes that think dressing up like a clown will scare bullets into not hitting them.)

Modern fantasy isn't as good as our world. It's just as bad, possibly even worse with the inclusion of magic.

oh well whoo de do fuckhead, didn't think of that, nu-uh.

You literally can't fuck a state.

So like Toxic Spell Dump?

With LSD and gay hippies

Correction, some south african tribes have the AIDS thing. The bullet thing has been a meme all over Africa though.

>Men fight wars
>Men use weapons to kill men in war
>Guns and bullets are weapons meant to kill men
>Therefore, dressing like anything EXCEPT men will make bullets harmless to me! Ha!

On that point of being worse... Suicide bombers. Now they don't need to strap themselves down to blow themselves up. They just need the knowledge to cast the spell. Heck... They only need to stroll unarmed and don't even need to present themselves to cause a magical incident, live and blend back into a crowd with little equipment to inconvenience them.

Gun control? Good luck. Spells are the go-to for home defense and acquiring street cred. Can't control abstract information that's stuck in the ether until used. Maybe heavily censor the internet/etherweb.

Then you got politicians trying to talk backdoors into magic defenses used to protect the nation... To make it easier to protect the nation. Except they don't have any experience and every mage guild giving a professional opinion of "fuck no, you retard"

No, you can't literally fuck a state. You can literally fuck a state, if "fuck" is used in a sense other than "have sex with"

da fuq is that?

>He hasn't made love to the moist soil of his state

Missing out dude

>You can literally fuck a state, if "fuck" is used in a sense other than "have sex with"
No, cause then you're not literally fucking something. Because literally, fuck means to have sex with.
You say I need to learn what literally means, go hit up a dictionary.

And you're just literally fucking a bunch of dirt, watch out for hookworm.

en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fuck

Etymology... kek

Modern Feudal. Final Fantasy 15 is probably the most known. I want my creature comforts and the right to shoot lightning at fools.

Hrol please, Alessia isn't gonna get knocked up a second time

this literally isn't a thing and is only a meme because of a vice "documentary" that used footage from a comedy movie made by nords

>Because literally, fuck means to have sex with.
not necessarily, it has many secondary meanings including to defraud or even just take some general nondescript hostile action (though usually implying physical violence)

>not sewing seeds to further the agriculture of his state

I know dude. You gotta give your state's farmland the cob if you want the corn.

Its the literal definition though. So saying "Oh dude I'm literally fucking over the state" makes you just as bad as the people who use literally for anything.

Modern elves: Yay or Nay?

>words can't have more than one meaning
you are literally probably a literally dumb nigger. please literally never post again.

delet

Tolkien elves, nay.

That's what I just said. It's been a meme all over Africa. Like those staged Italian movies from the 70's showing paid actors wearing loincloths and hunting wild beasts in a barbaric manner.

Or that video dumbass /pol/fags mocked of a village holding its annual fishing contest where all the men dive into a sacred pond and try to grab a fish with only a basket or bare hands for good luck. /pol/ fools actually thought this was how they normally fished.

Read this as a modern fantasy.
Evil goblin like creature adopted by mummies turn out to be a complete neet.

Reminds me of another vice documentary... Do Brazilians really fuck donkeys?

Yo. She's not a token elf you racist shit. Just because you don't have human friends doesn't mean she can't.

Elves are nature spirits at their core. They just don't fit in urban settings. Like Youkai in Tokyo.

Heard there's alot of Youkai on Youkai violence in Tokyo. Met some in the states and they weren't so bad... Why?

There's nothing wrong with youkai in cities.
youtube.com/watch?v=19mZWD3YxNY

>How do you like your modern fantasy?
I like it when it's real.

Like when African vigilantes lynched a group of doctors they believed to be Ebola-chan cultists after /pol/ posted pic related.

What would be the worst?

Oh ok. I thought that when you said it's a meme, you meant it like it's a significant token of cultural expression or whatever -- that they do indeed dress like clowns to ward off bullets, and not just that they're wearing cheap hand-me-downs from the west.

I've seen some videos...

But actually, I've heard that a lot of animal porn comes from there because BR porn star wannabes are cheap and easy to get to do literally anything.

>yet another "it's a normal schoolgirl anime but actually she's [military hardware] on the inside!!!"
this whole genre is fucking cancer

But guns do kill women. They've got to dress as something that guns can't kill, like a mountain or a house. I bet the magic would work then.

A novel. Also nice double dubs

>yet another "it's a normal schoolgirl anime but actually she's [military hardware] on the inside!!!"
But that's not what that is at all.

Nah that's fairies. But I agree that elves wouldn't submit to the laws of civilization and instead basically become gypsies. No true state and never willing to serve a non-elf they ride around doing nature shit, joining witches sabbaths and crafting perfect useless junk to rip off non-elves.

I like the idea of what was powerful once was now everyday thanks to the advances of culture and sciences. So vampires used to be a big deal until modern bullets and UV lamps, being literal miniature stakes and suns.

>Elves are shit at their core. They just don't fit in good settings
ftfy

>dumb catgirl summons a railgun or something
if it quacks like a duck, it deserves to die for being duck-like since duck and all duck accessories are garbage only surpassed in sheer badness by American Top Gear

Not even close, man.

Besides, this is theonly anime to ever come up with why catgirls have four ears.

The ones on top of their heads are antennae for supporting their telepathy.

itt: racists that think elfs are a race of tree-fucking barbarians and scammers and can't live a normal life in society #knifeearsmatter #langesmessernacht #faecaust #notallelves

t.elf beggar and thief

In all seriousness though there are exceptions. Some might even have the elf version of autism and love the shit out of "steel jungles"

>Nosferatu
> Not Noseferatu

Missed opportunity there user.

sounds like some gay shit that needs to get holocausted

Calm down... The USA already dropped 2 bombs on the Japanese. You can't expect the Youkai sub-races to have a stable enough genetics. They lack the enzymes that repair damage to their genes and prevent mutations. Fuck, it's a city. They're probably being bombarded by radiation from all those cellphones the Japs are loaded down with.

I feel the same. Id dabbled in writing up a modern fantasy campaign that never ended up getitng played.
Though I had everything be the typicaliah secret societies and hidden goverments until recently. with secrecy collapsing in the last 20 or so years thanks to the Internet. There's still exclusivity, elf only communes and shit. But some actors have "come out" as werewolves and the formerly secret order vampire hunter Templars now work alongside police to deal with any monstrous people that go out murdering.

Would unicorns be extinct or threatened.
I mean even in fantasy stories they're usually dying out.

Also how will things like airships and underground cities being viable work into a modern theme?

>Id dabbled in writing up a modern fantasy campaign that never ended up getting played.
The problem is clearly that you're basing it in the real world, that's the big asshole in the room.

I mean medieval fantasy doesn't actually take place in europe, so why should modern fantasy.

probably neither, idk why everyone has such a hardon for putting unicorns on the extinction list

they're basically just horses with horns, which are basically just deer and antelope and moose. but theyre usually intelligent, too. they'd probably be vermin tier overpopulous, really

shit like this is why I think Exile (the Spiderweb Software CRPGs) is the best fantasy setting ever, shit like this is thought out. unsurprisingly, unicorns are vermin, and are basically just aggressive horses.

> airships and underground cities being viable
uhhhhh leave america some time you'd be amazed at the kinds of things people do. Montreal has an "underground city" element and the concept of a zepplin is so not-new it's actually outright obsolete

it never got played because my gaming group drifted apart after uni to a bunch of different cities.

>they're basically just horses with horns
They're magical horses with horns, said horns give you so many benefits that'd it'd make a chinese alchemist turn pale. And yeah, they're highly intelligent horses with magical horns.

Also a airship is very different from a zeppelin, being that it defies physics and you can basically put a steel fortress into the sky. Also for underground cities I'm thinking more like underdark and dwarven fortresses.

>unicorn
>horn
>totally not getting poached the fuck off the planet by modern fantasy china for penis medicine

>tfw Arcane Magic is not in the least Arcane

Goddamn Africans are retards. I'm thinking that rule by white people would be the best thing for them, just not rule by genetically stunted hapsbergs.

if fucking PANGOLINS can still exist despite chinese poaching and not being a service or meat animal, "literally just a beefy gazelle" should do fine

>Also a airship is very different from a zeppelin,
even FF bullshit airships are usually depicted as either zepplins or rotorcraft or both

usually just a pirate ship with rotors on it or a big canvas balloon haphazardly lashed to the deck is the go-to design for artwork

>not having spirits of the urban jungle in your modern fantasy setting
but alternatively
>not having elf-run gated suburban neighborhoods (to keep the fucking dwar- I mean criminals out) with shitty names like "Silverglen" or "Greenbrook" or whatever

and ps
>and you can basically put a steel fortress into the sky
an ac130 or b-29/b-50 isnt exactly as fanciful as the highwind or ragnarok, but I know which one I'd put my money on in a fight

idk why fantasy people get hung up on the most actually mundane shit. throwing lighting out of your hands and liches existing and people doing chaos rituals by video conference, thats some real cool shit. but airships and underground cities? have you never heard of a helicopter or subway before?

You forget... Unicorns tend get fucked over into the ocean by Red Bull in addition to the poaching... And getting dumped into circus-zoos by gypsywitches. So yeah... Kinda endangered.

Hell, if you mess around with them too much and they get attached to people/civilizations they start to have a harder time breeding than pandas.

they're horses, user. horses. literally horses with horns. why would they not be as populous as normal horses? if not more populous since they're magic, intelligent, and can probably shoot lasers out of their horns and poop ice cream and magically befriend children to inform them of zionist conspiracies

>elf-run gated suburban neighborhoods with shitty names like "Silverglen" or "Greenbrook" or whatever

Sounds like a retirement home to me.

If they are intelligent and magical, they're not fucking horses are they.

Thay's like saying a dragon is just a crocodile with wings, why would it be any different.

>meth head trailer-trash elves who love their rifles
>biker elf gangs
>thug life dwarves with blink (we waz kangz of da mountain n shiet)
>baptist dwarves trying to keep their kid on the straight and narrow
>hobbit is actually slang for fence-hopper... they're also hairy

Unicorn tissues are key spell and potion components. Ranging from simple luxk charms to life extending potions.

Exactly! I want to know what it's like for a typical fantasy setting to advance into it's own modern day? What sort of countries form and how do the various factions, social forces, and poltical shit go down? How do they come up with the various versions or equivalent of modern technology?

What happens when the ye olden dirt village is given electicity? What happens when Harpies are competting against trucks to deliever letters and packages? what new monsters come into being to stalk around alleyways and in sewers?

I mean, in fairness, in battle you generally don't expect a man in drag, so there's a sort of demented element of surprise.

and in real life we make horses into glue and steaks and feed for other animals, and ride them until they die in zoos and races, and occasionally even abuse their sorry dicks in pornography for weirdos.

>If they are intelligent and magical, they're not fucking horses are they.
True, they should be doing even better than horses considering a normal horse can kill a guy pretty easily without having laser breath and divine health insurance and other such unikorn magicks

your guys argument boils down to "we'd use unicorns for products!" but we use lots of animals for lots of other products too, and they're not extinct. In some cases, those products being a continued part of human culture is the only reason the animal in question still exists or exists in the form it does today, like modern cows and chickens.

>tfw Occult Detective/Exorcist-for-hire is the only variation of modern fantasy that actually makes sense

>and in real life

And in real life, Native peoples of North America killed and ate every large mammel except for Bison to extinction.

Yeah like all those tigers and rhinos being farmed by the chinese.

Except you know, the above human intellect and death horns.

abbos are NOT people ok lets just get that one straight right NOW

Yes they are.
Just stupid people or for less gray areas, stupid humans.

rhinos and tigers still exist

and they don't have glitter-based breath attacks, nor do they have access to lv20 Wizard spells

if fucking PANGOLINS can still exist, then surely what is essentially a horse except with magic powers and high intelligence would probably do fine.