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    I’d aim for one of the rural areas in Discworld.

    Relatively calm life, as long as you keep the local witch on your side.

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    Lord of the Rings, but fuck Gondor… I’ll be chilling in the Shire living like fucking king.

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      Everything goes dark. You open your eyes. You are standing on a bridge. A warm salty breeze is in the air. Birds fly over. A fish splashes in the water. You could go anywhere, do anything, a whole new world is open to you. But you stay put for now and enjoy this peaceful bridge.

      A child runs by. She avoids making eye contact and runs behind you. Then another, and another. “Kids these days”, you think, “always in a hurry.” Another child approaches, before he can slip by, you turn, and make eye contact. It’s on!

      You each bring out your Pokémon and oh god, oh god, oh god, it’s god. The unfathomable, immortal deity who shaped the entire world, and it is taking orders from a child! and you have… a magikarp.

      Before you can even speak, a blast of energy strikes your fish, killing it instantly. You are knocked back, stunned. The child frisks your pockets and takes your wallet. Everything goes dark. You open your eyes. You are standing on a bridge. A warm salty breeze is in the air…

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      Does that count as a magical world? There’s some sci-fi technology in it and the Pokémon seem to be able to manipulate some forces a bit mysteriously but they seem more like exaggerrated fantasy versions of real life animals. Seems like magic usually involves a bit more explicit reference to “magic” which is usually a singular force responsible for many feats very strongly linked to will of individuals.

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    Not something from an anime because by season 4, there’s like a dozen people that can destroy a small town with one move. By season 8, they’re doing planets.

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      But at the same time, if you train very hard you’ll be able to do that too. That’s how it usually goes for characters without magical abilities.

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      A quick reminder that Muten Roshi lived through the entirety of Dragon Ball (bar the couple times literally everyone in the planet died, temporarily)

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    In the Harry Potter universe non magical people live blissfully unaware of magical people and are pretty much left to our own affairs with little to no intervention or malicious actions by the magical, the magical even setup an entire ministry dedicated to maintaining that status quo. It’s probably the most boring and unimaginative choice but it sounds like the one in which I could live with the greatest ease and safety.

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      Hard disagree. Muggles are kept shrouded in ignorance, but they’re still fairly routinely terrorized by dark wizards and magical beasts. The Ministry makes an effort, but fails when the going gets tough.

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      Besides continuous war and blatant racism/classism in every aspect of every society, most of them with either fully blown feudalism and slavery or a untouchable aristocracy :D

      Spren are cool though…

      PS nice username!

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      Interesting choice. As much as I love the setting, I couldn’t see myself living in a place that has hurricanes on a weekly basis.

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      I’m an expert on one-armed Herdazian jokes. ‘Lopen,’ my mother always says, ‘you must learn these to laugh before others do. Then you steal the laughter from them, and have it all for yourself.’ She is a very wise woman.

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      Really? I feel like Scadrial is the better choice here. Though I haven’t finished the Lost Metal yet, so something crazy may happen at the end that makes me reconsider this lol.

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    Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magicka Obscura

    I’d get to laugh at every single wizard trying to board a train without it blowing up due to magic fucking up technology before I get screwed over by one of the soulless, greedy, vapid, mouth-breathing creatures known as gnomes.

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      I cannot understand why there’s no modern sequel in the works. A well loved classic RPG with steam punk elements and union themes seems like a no-brainer in the current environment.

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        I think the modern equivalents sort of got swallowed by Eberron - to make the setting not-shitty for tabletop Eberron removed the opposition and the setting ended up much less thematic… but it sort of stole the spotlight.

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    Harry Potter. I’d be a normal muggle, blissfully ignorant of all the drama going on :)

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        But there’s Q, the traveller, Wesley, that old guy who wiped out an entire species with a thought… Pretty magical stuff there…

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          Any sufficiently advanced technology would appear as magic to the primitive. This is a theme repeated frequently in the show. 

          The life forms you mentioned are simply more advanced than humanity can comprehend, they are not magical. 

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            The Q are pretty fucking magical, to be honest. DeLancie’s Q even suggests that all of their powers come from the mind, not from technology.

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            Any universe. I recall reading a fun fantasy book that played with this idea under the premise of a guy who discovered he was in a simulation and hacked admin access, decided to go back into Arthurian medieval times to be a wizard with his new tech powers, and ended up there with a number of other sysadmins who had the same idea.

            It wasn’t the best written book, but the concept was definitely novel.

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    Ooo, if you aren’t magical when you get there. There is an infinite number of things that will make you. But more importantly I want to live in a place that silly.

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    Star wars. Apparently anyone can learn to be a magic user jedi if they try hard enough. But even if that isn’t an option, spaceships are also fun.