Dave. ( @dgriffith@aussie.zone ) 29•5 months agoI’d aim for one of the rural areas in Discworld.
Relatively calm life, as long as you keep the local witch on your side.
Bizarroland ( @Bizarroland@kbin.social ) 1•5 months agoIdk, maybe Xanth would be better than Discworld. Slightly less likely to die in Xanth, and most decent guys end up with a beautiful wife.
And if you ever get stuck you can always take a stroll down the Runthis Bayou and everyone you meet along the way will give you some ideas for what to do with yourself.
Jimmycrackcrack ( @Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml ) 10•5 months agoIn the Harry Potter universe non magical people live blissfully unaware of magical people and are pretty much left to our own affairs with little to no intervention or malicious actions by the magical, the magical even setup an entire ministry dedicated to maintaining that status quo. It’s probably the most boring and unimaginative choice but it sounds like the one in which I could live with the greatest ease and safety.
pingveno ( @pingveno@lemmy.ml ) English8•5 months agoHard disagree. Muggles are kept shrouded in ignorance, but they’re still fairly routinely terrorized by dark wizards and magical beasts. The Ministry makes an effort, but fails when the going gets tough.
Nath ( @Nath@aussie.zone ) 2•5 months agoExcept for the early 90’s in the UK. That wasn’t so great.
Lath ( @Lath@kbin.social ) 8•5 months agoDoes Star Trek count as magical?
I think it’s just sci fi
Lath ( @Lath@kbin.social ) 8•5 months agoBut there’s Q, the traveller, Wesley, that old guy who wiped out an entire species with a thought… Pretty magical stuff there…
gregorum ( @gregorum@lemm.ee ) English6•5 months agoAny sufficiently advanced technology would appear as magic to the primitive. This is a theme repeated frequently in the show. 
The life forms you mentioned are simply more advanced than humanity can comprehend, they are not magical. 
- Gabu ( @Gabu@lemmy.ml ) 2•5 months ago
The Q are pretty fucking magical, to be honest. DeLancie’s Q even suggests that all of their powers come from the mind, not from technology.
Drusas ( @Drusas@kbin.social ) 3•5 months agoWow, I had completely forgotten about the Wesley Traveler thing.
You may be more familiar with it than me.
Lath ( @Lath@kbin.social ) 3•5 months agoWell then, I’d say this is a good excuse to familiarize yourself with it and tell me for sure.
I’ll leave it to your best judgement.
pingveno ( @pingveno@lemmy.ml ) English7•5 months agoEarthsea seems pretty chill. Especially Ged.
Poggervania ( @Poggervania@kbin.social ) 7•5 months agoArcanum: Of Steamworks and Magicka Obscura
I’d get to laugh at every single wizard trying to board a train without it blowing up due to magic fucking up technology before I get screwed over by one of the soulless, greedy, vapid, mouth-breathing creatures known as gnomes.
Hegar ( @Hegar@kbin.social ) 3•5 months agoI cannot understand why there’s no modern sequel in the works. A well loved classic RPG with steam punk elements and union themes seems like a no-brainer in the current environment.
JVT038 ( @JVT038@feddit.nl ) English7•5 months agoHarry Potter. I’d be a normal muggle, blissfully ignorant of all the drama going on :)
illi ( @illi@lemm.ee ) English11•5 months agoSo nothing changes?
iSeth ( @iSeth@lemmy.ml ) 15•5 months agoNot at all! The entire Harry Potter franchise wouldn’t exist!
JVT038 ( @JVT038@feddit.nl ) 6•5 months agoExactly. That’s the entire point lol
Poggervania ( @Poggervania@kbin.social ) 10•5 months agoBut you’d be living in England and probably get stabbed by some chav’s unregistered butter knife
Ech ( @ech@lemm.ee ) English3•5 months agoThe rest of the world exists in hp, not just the UK.
MrFunnyMoustache ( @MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml ) 1•5 months agoAnd if you really wanted to, you could go to Diagon Alley and pretend to be a wizard… You wouldn’t need magic to get in, you just need to walk diagonally.
mub ( @mub@lemmy.ml ) 3•5 months agoStar wars. Apparently anyone can learn to be a
magic userjedi if they try hard enough. But even if that isn’t an option, spaceships are also fun.- Gabu ( @Gabu@lemmy.ml ) 1•5 months ago
Objection! Evidence: everything pre-Didney.
Pietson ( @Pietson@kbin.social ) 2•5 months agoExcluding wods with magic in a contemporary or utopian setting, maybe some DnD world? You don’t need to have magic abilities to use magic items and plenty of settings are reasonably advanced.
You don’t have to exclude worlds with magic in a utopian or contemporary setting, what examples do you have?
Pietson ( @Pietson@kbin.social ) 2•5 months agoWell Harry potter has already been mentioned as a contemporary example. Can’t think of any utopian examples tbh, reckon they are hard to write good stories for. But since these sort of worlds works be obvious picks I figured I’d post the next next thing.
- Gabu ( @Gabu@lemmy.ml ) 2•5 months ago
What counts as “magic”, exactly? E.g. the world of BLEACH has 3 wholy distinct sources of supernatural power, only one of which looks like traditional, wizards & witches magic. Is vampirism magic? What about superstrength in Norse mythology?
I think this comment did a good job of explaining it
Cwilliams ( @Cwilliams@beehaw.org ) 2•5 months agoPercy Jackson. My life would be normal!
Dizzy Devil Ducky ( @AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee ) English1•5 months agoWakfu’s World of Twelve. I wouldn’t mind being an ecaflip or pandawa or even just an ouginak but knowing me I’d just end up as something lame like a Iop or Enutrof or some other boring class.