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Love it when a story has a fantastical element to it and puts a lot of thought into all the ways it would effect society
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Like how in Mistborn, no one wears or carries anything made of metal unless they have an immediate need to do so
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Because magic directly effects metal so if your pants have a zipper someone might use it to crush your dick
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Or the Jedi temple on coruscant has locks in it with no keyholes
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They’re designed so can ONLY unlock them by manipulating the mechanisms of the lock directly with telekinetic power
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It’s a lock that only Jedi can open
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The public transportation in the Earth Kingdom that’s just stone trains shoved along tracks by earth benders
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the anime Fire Hunter takes place where something has happened to make humans incredibly flammable, to the point that standing near a spark is fatal
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this is how vehicles are armed
this is how vehicles are armed
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the technology exists to make guns but they aren't used for obvious reasons
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Nice
E.S. Levi
Eberron is based heavily on this. It's a fantasy world with magic, why not have a city of impossibly tall towers and flying taxis, where nobles wear magical outfits with five possible appearances in case they get to the ball and find someone else wearing a dress similar to theirs?
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Wildsea has a society that fears fire because the air is super oxygenated and everything is made of wood
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So they have a lot of devices built to accomplish things without risking even a single spark
E.S. Levi
Eberron also has a legal system that classifies what sort of crime it is to use Compulsion magic on people.
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And from the depths of my own mind: I was imagining a flying city where the entire surface of the floating island it’s built on is farmland, and all the buildings and shit hang off the bottom like stalactites
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Because anything you can grow in the sky is something you don’t need to ship up from the ground
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E.S. Levi
: what kind of crime is that?
E.S. Levi
Fraud!
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Makes sense
E.S. Levi
Since they're technically using duplicitous means to manipulate someone into taking actions they wouldn't under fair circumstances.
E.S. Levi
(Use of magic that does physical harm is classified as armed assault, whereas magic that incapacitates without causing injury is simple assault.)
E.S. Levi
(And presumably also battery if the magic succeeds in causing injury or incapacitation.)
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God knows the classic D&D economy makes no sense
E.S. Levi
The classic D&D economy is based around adventurer wealth, and the concept that the typical smallfolk are constantly struggling in absolute poverty to grow the food they need to eat and mend the rags they wear so they can keep using them for another day...
E.S. Levi
You really have to either lower the costs of mundane essentials, or increase the wages of the average worker to get anything resembling an actually functional economy.
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Yeah!! I like it when they think stuff through
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Criminals in discworld starting to use scent bombs because of the rumors that there was a werewolf in the watch
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So The Law has a superhuman sense of smell
E.S. Levi
Eberron also has a list of what spells are considered restricted merchandise in at least one major humanoid nation.
ArtIsArt
Eberron also has Aerenal, which is my favorite elf fantasy setting in existance cuz it's so fucked up.
E.S. Levi
Aerenal AND Valenar, which are each messed up in different ways.
ArtIsArt
I know very little about the latter tbh
E.S. Levi
Warmongers who seek to emulate specific patron ancestors in all ways...including being the heroes of a guerilla war against a superior foe, and thus are constantly trying to poke whatever hornets' nests they can find.
ArtIsArt
That's incredibly awful and I love it.
E.S. Levi
Regularly raiding the outskirts of major powers, in hopes of provoking one into all-out war.