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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

Link you gotta build a spaceship to get to that floating island.

But this is Hyrule, a medieval fantasy world! We don't have rockets and airplanes!

Hear me out... Zonai devices.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Looking at how often this happens in Star Wars proves that it's space fantasy.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

It's a space opera!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Everything about Star Wars proves its a space fantasy. I mean, its got wizards in it!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dwemer ruins gang represent

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Arkngthand gang gang

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

As a forever GM, this is one of my favorite tropes, it's usually one of the driving forces in my worlds, I tend to prefer narrative power struggle type top level conflict in my worlds and this trope just makes for such fun gameplay.

Either there's multiple influential organizations vying for control of the ancient tech, or a group of userpers that found it, or the current ruling org is using it, or it was undiscovered until the PCs activated it (a good way to also be able to fluidly integrate a chosen one trope into a group without one single chosen one)

In a magic world, pure magic gets stale and starts to feel all the same, but replacing some of that magic with ancient tech can add a lot of fun flavor that doesn't need to upset game balance and can provide power advancement in ways beyond experience and level ups.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There was a post somewhere here on lemmy recently that inspired an idea for something like this:

An ultimate AI dominated the world and kept humans only on zoos along with all other animals. Over several generations those humans lost all knowledge and culture they had. Eventually the AI got wiped out by some natural disaster and it allowed humans to start over.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah and that "got wiped out" can come from a solar flare. Then humans get to worship the sun.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Halo's Forerunners

TES' Dwarven ruins

Assassins Creed's First Civilization

All spring to mind

Also Star Wars' Zeffo / Zeffonians

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Final Fantasy XVI is the most recent example I can think of, and iirc Jak and Daxter is one of the earliest ones I recall playing as a kid

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Mass Effect

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The Wheel of Time.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Naughty Dog did this trope and literally just named them Precursors lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is there a sci Fi world where that ancient civilization is just the current modern day?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hercules the Animated Series? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait what? I've never seen it, how does that make sense?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's set in ancient Greece, but they also show modern stuff like shopping malls and even magic artifacts that are basically modern technology to make the show relevant and more engaging.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why does the clock say 911 :/ and the movie came out in 2001 hmmmm!!!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

r/SaturnStormCube is leaking into lemmy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Watched Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 the other day, and when Peter has trouble driving a normal ass car, I was like "he can figure out his space ship but not how pedals and a steering wheel work? How did he know how to put the car into gear if he doesn't know the other basic stuff that would apply to the spaceship as well?"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Could you say, Tenet did the reverse. Futuristic technology found its way back to current time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The blooper of this scene would be a good fit here...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hey, it can be fire. Not exactly the same scenario, but 3015-era Battletech and lostech is dope as hell.

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