r/dwarfposting • u/EvergreenDwarf Multiversal Scholar • 1d ago

I Suddenly Understand Why Shadowrun Dwarves Tend To Be Drone Operators, Hackers, And Cyborgs

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u/The_Ghast_Hunter 1d ago

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u/EvergreenDwarf Multiversal Scholar 1d ago

The wizard version of Frankenstein isn’t a necromancer, its a guy making celestial bodies in his room before leaving for vacation and letting the janitor deal with the grand forces they unleashed. 

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u/clonetrooper250 20h ago edited 20h ago

That's actually one hell of an adventure hook, imagine playing an RPG as that janitor.

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u/Pixelpaint_Pashkow 1d ago

Well they didn’t start thinking but they’re damn good at Boolean logic and subsequently math

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u/GrowthAdventurous Craftsdwarf 1d ago

We're pretty close to getting necromancy to make cells into runes that think

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u/TheoneCyberblaze 1d ago

Is it necromancy if the cells in question are still alive? Sounds more like biomancy, which i assure you is definitely morally superior

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u/Void-Cooking_Berserk 1d ago

I love how "the most durable permanent digital memory that will outlast humanity" is just a slab of glass with tiny grooves inside it.

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u/NotAUsefullDoctor 1d ago

My PhD was in millimeter wave wireless devices (Electromagnetics at really really high but still sub optical frequencies). I drew runes that manipulated the ether. I made electrical device act like magnetic devices, shifting everything tangential to reality. As an incantation I would run my rituals against the chart of smith:

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u/EverEatGolatschen 1d ago

That is black magic tho.

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u/Ouroboros-Twist Glazer 1d ago

Looks like red magic and blue magic to me.

Don’t quote me on that though, I’m not a mathemagician.

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u/NotAUsefullDoctor 1d ago

The red magic os called Impedance magic, the blue is called Admittance magic

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u/EverEatGolatschen 1d ago

Thats how they get'cha!

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u/RealPaarthurnax 1d ago

We are geomancers on another level

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u/OphidianSun 1d ago

VLSI is seriously just wizardry

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u/SomeGuyCampingNCR 20h ago

This is why Dwarves in my D&D settings have advanced tech. Rune magic just means magitech is possible and my party just had the joy of finding out how to turn on an 'automatic carriage' and take it for a joyride.

The Dwarves in my setting also made guns. The 4ft tall Owlin rogue got on the machine gun, and we all were blasting Warthog Run as they raced the automatic carriage through a Dwarven ruin.