How do you do modern fantasy without a masquerade? I know there's d20 modern...

How do you do modern fantasy without a masquerade? I know there's d20 modern, but I'd like to see more games in the same genre without having to use a universal system.

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1. Magic only works on dungeons: when attempted on surface life it appears weak; fancy tricks or sleight of hand at best. The same happens to magic objects and to a lesser degree, to treasure you can recover from down there.
2. Normal people sees dungeon crawlers as they do with Goth Kids, Bronies or Punks IRL: they despise their dungeon stories as imagination.
3. The underworld evil power of the dungeons prevents cellphones, cameras or other modern things from working, so you cannot get a selfie with a wight to prove this to your school friends.

I've just re-reading what i've just written, and now i want to run it. It looks like a nice theme for a young adults book saga.

How would dungeons fit into a modern fantasy setting?

Normal people see supernatural creatures and wizards and whatever like we see hippies and local socialist alternative folks.

A wizard begins summoning a vast fireball while talking about how he has delved the mysteries of the infinite, and everyone around him on their way to work either politely ignores him or is all "lol whatever, fag"

The fantasy parts only showed up recently and haven't had the time to change society yet.

No no, you're thinking urban fantasy or whatever the fuck you call tacked on bullshit into our world. Its like the difference between putting cogs and bronze on everything and actual historical revisionism with steampunk.

Modern fantasy doesn't need a masquerade just like any other fantasy doesn't need to hide magic.

To add further, magical creatures and the like have been driven away from human population centres because they die to guns and are confused and afraid of cars and streetlights. Their existence or powers aren't idolised any more than modern people's idolise a sea otters ability to use rocks to crack open clams while swimming.

Children are a major issue because they easily get caught up in cults or learn to use magic, before they've gotten through their rebellious years. They either grow out of it and it's fine, cause some incidents and get sent to juvenile prison where they have people trained to deal with wizards, or they don't grow out of it in which case they are basically on every intelligence watchlist as someone likely to bomb a subway or whatever.

There are no legitimate or legal uses for magic beyond parlour tricks and entertainment, even though it is perfectly possible and achievable to do much better than that.

That depends, do you want a world that's basically just like our world but with some magic, or do you want a full-on fantasy world that advanced to a technological level similar to ours?

Is it possible for guns and swords to coexist in a modern fantasy setting, or are they mutually exclusive?

Anything is possible with enough weak rationalization. Just look at every japanese light novel ever written.

All the time. Most of them exist in the novels.

That depends on the location and circumstances more than anything else. The tighter and more confined your areas of operation are, the more and more practical using a sword is.
>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tueller_Drill
At certain distances, a swordsman is capable of being a lethal threat to one even armed with an automatic weapon. Just don't think you can mindlessly run up and stab people like non-modern D&D.

stealing it, hueh user. See you watching the eventual big screen adaption.

Just take One Page Dungeons around the net and put them wherever you need.

I've just expanded on this on a blog, I leave the shilling here

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Doorways to another dimension scattered about. Like The Dark Tower mixed with Stranger Things mixed with whatever flavor you want for your particular setting.

>Modern fantasy doesn't need a masquerade just like any other fantasy doesn't need to hide magic.
This depends entirely on the setting. It might be something practiced openly, or maybe it isn't because all the muggles started hanging people.

theres always the tunnels under that college in Michigan...

tell me more about this.

ha ha good luck. I might lose millions but it can pay off if the movie is really good.

Well, cops are taught that if someone is within 21 feet or so with an edged weapon, they can reach and kill the officer before the officer could draw their weapon and kill them.

>A wizard begins summoning a vast fireball while talking about how he has delved the mysteries of the infinite, and everyone around him on their way to work either politely ignores him or is all "lol whatever, fag"

>daylands.blogspot.com.es/2017/10/dungeon-crawler-as-urban-tribe.html


this. There is no need for a masquerade: The willingness of people to see only what they want to see is strong enough.

>"Mommy look, those cultists are fighting the Brazillian Inquisition for the fate of mankind!"
>"Look away Jimmy, I don't want you being influenced by those weirdos"

>and are confused and afraid of cars and streetlights.
So basically, they are afraid of every single human civilization? With fences, water irrigation, unnatural dirt roads, and fire.
You fail to mention anything about modern society that would specifically deter animals.

sure.

just say magic used to be stronger in the past, like most settings. that means you've got old fashioned weapons that are magically powerful and modern weapons that are magically weak but obviously a lot more effective in raw physical terms. people use either or both depending on the situation.

there might even be some overlap in the middle with people using old fashioned flintlock guns that have better enchantments than the modern types.

Oddly enough it actually makes tons of sense in Japan and some other countries because getting guns is so pissing difficult.

I nice one is that magic went away for some reason and it's slowly returning to the modern world, you might try to keep the secret for practical and individual reasons but everyone knows they can't keep it between a small number of groups for more than a few years at most.

It would be interesting to see how various nations dealt with "dungeon culture". I imagine the American Deep South would basically be Jimbo and his good ol' boys, casually strolling through a dungeon with a shotgun each and a case of beers, shooting goblins like they're skeet.

We had lazorz and shiet?