2026-10-29 04:20 UTC
Reading manga, watching anime, or reading Cthulhu RPGs, you get the impression that magic is always > tech. "Oh no we can't take guns into the dungeons, they just don't work against monsters!"
But that doesn't make any sense. Both have to draw energy from their materials. For psi-type magic, that'd just be whatever energy you have in your body.
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@mdhughes@appdot.net 2026-10-29 04:22
> Over an 8-hour work shift, an average, healthy, well-fed and motivated manual laborer may sustain a mechanical power output of around 75 watts. < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_power So producing light, starting a fire, maybe pushing something, all plausible if you had a magic eye or whatever. Wrapping a starship in force field that can stop a nuke, is not. I dunno what the magic equivalent of a nuke is, but it'd require just as much research & infrastructure to make. #ttrpg #magic