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Originally Posted by Rurik

My fear with the hard sci-fi background described is it can become limiting. I like the idea of cults being able to affect the world's tides/seasons etc. - a whale getting stuck can explain wacky tides, but how about when the sun cult really socks it to the night cult or whatever? I think having party quests affecting the 'natural events' of the world is more plausible with a fantasy background than a sci-fi one.

Well I did say earlier about the idea hat everyone could be a latent ESP, so basically the sun cult knocking it to the night cult would be a manifestation of psi powered mass belief.

Basically we could described it completely in fantasy terms. If the tech is high enough (as with a Dyson Sphere) whatever we can imagine could be rationalized away scientifically, assuming we ever desire to do so.

For instance, what if everything was run by computers since the Anceints went into stasis, hopped on an a outbout starliner for a trip to Disneyworld or whatever. The computer wants people to be happy and tries to do so by altering the enviroment to the wishes of the populace. If the people to want to worship the Sun and have thier crops blessed, rather than just requesting a 3% increase in sunlight to the farmlands, that's fine with the machines.

Originally Posted by Rurik

I'd also like a spirit world with ghosts and the like, and an underworld (possibly the same as the spirit world). I don't want as many otherworlds as say current Glorantha, but would like something like the old RQ2 spirit plane.

Could all be some form of virtual reality. You "spirit" leaves you body and travels on the "spririt plae": couldeasily be cyberspace from the view of a pre-computer society.



So anything could go. The locals won't know the difference, and we don't have to tell.