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Originally Posted by Rurik
Hinting at a possible sci-fi origen is cool, actually detailing it upfront really kills the fantasy image of the game.
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I think if the difference is great enough, the high tech aspects really wouldn't be distinguishable from magic.
From the view of someone living on the surface, is the world flat or just a big dyson sphere? Are the starts objects in the sky, sprints, a sign from the gods, or holes in the sunscreen? Are wacky tides the result of battle gods, or did a dead whale get caught in the disposal mechanism and cause it to back up? Are magical powers gifts from the gods, or have the entire populace been genetically breed for psionic potential? Functionally it makes no difference, so we could describe things from an entirely fantasy viewpoint, be dead wrong about everything, and it would be fine.
This could allow us to use both high and low tech cultures to some extent on the same setting, just far apart. Most of the world could have fallen to a medieval state of development, with a few enclaves of more advanced culture that have a different worldview. Perhaps even restrictions against revealing the truth to the natives for several reasons.
But that is just one way to go with it, based on giant spaceship idea.