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…
I Have No Meowth, and I Must Scream
Only for pets, not for humans
Ash Ketchum gets bankrupted paying for his mother’s hospital bills. The End.
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.
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.
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.
And the all string soundtrack was a perfect choice.
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Just stay on the good side of the local witch.
I’d have spend a year or two wildin’ out in Ankh-Morpork.
I’d go to uberwald
That’s just Twilight with another faction, much higher body count, and way too much Europe
As long as no sourcerer drops by :)
I prefer sweetcerers
Yeah, but how many rural areas are there?,
So the odds of one dropping by… I mean not even close to 0 but still.
Idk, maybe Xanth would be better than Discworld. Slightly less likely to die in Xanth, and most decent guys end up with a beautiful wife.
And if you ever get stuck you can always take a stroll down the Runthis Bayou and everyone you meet along the way will give you some ideas for what to do with yourself.
Magic is just unexplained science
Princess Bubblegum?
Hey you, you’re finally awake…
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Do innate powers count as magic? Because if they do, living in Tamriel would suck… unless you happen to be born a god, of course.
I’d just go be a bard in a tavern. Drink, sing and play instruments.
Don’t tour around Helgen
I think Ragnar the Red was kind of a pig, so really just don’t be a pig.
Percy Jackson. My life would be normal!
Wakfu’s World of Twelve. I wouldn’t mind being an ecaflip or pandawa or even just an ouginak but knowing me I’d just end up as something lame like a Iop or Enutrof or some other boring class.
You don’t have to exclude worlds with magic in a utopian or contemporary setting, what examples do you have?
Kiki’s Delivery Service?
Earthsea seems pretty chill. Especially Ged.
Objection! Evidence: everything pre-Didney.
Roshar. With all the spren and fabrials, I could still have a decent time.
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!
Don’t even need magic… just non-brown eyes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A quick reminder that Muten Roshi lived through the entirety of Dragon Ball (bar the couple times literally everyone in the planet died, temporarily)
I appreciate the bracketed comment and double down on my original statement lol
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.
Train for years and you too can hold water inside an upside down glass.
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.
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.
Except for the early 90’s in the UK. That wasn’t so great.
Harry Potter. I’d be a normal muggle, blissfully ignorant of all the drama going on :)
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But you’d be living in England and probably get stabbed by some chav’s unregistered butter knife
If you live in the magical world in Harry Potter, wouldn’t that make you a squib?
So nothing changes?
Exactly. That’s the entire point lol
Not at all! The entire Harry Potter franchise wouldn’t exist!
