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I found another scifi novel that would make a great background world for a #TTRPG
Elegy Beach by Steven R. Boyett. A sequel to his novel Ariel.

Similar to the game ShadowRun, where one fine day the universe changes, magic works, and all these classics fantasy creatures spring to life. But without the cyberpunk and organized crime, and with more of The Postman.

The interesting part for me is magic like a computer language, with for-next loops and macros.

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@nyrath Does it explain how people can still be alive when a zinc-carbon dry cell connected to an incandescent bulb somehow just doesn't work? I think "magic" whatever it truly was would have to be arbitrarily overriding physics rather than replacing it.