Sufficiently Deranged

"Sufficiently Deranged (Phil Masters) systematises mad science by treating it, in rules terms, like a sort of magic: this covers two separate cinematic treatments of advanced science, the naïve approach that advanced technology can simply do amazing and unpredecented things if you know it well enough, and the slightly more sophisticated model that lets some individuals vastly exceed what reality will normally allow. So we get Magery (Mad Science), used as a Talent for Gadgeteering rolls; going further, it can drive syntactic Realm magic, using each science as its own Realm. There are plenty of examples for the GM to build this into a full "magic" system. I think one could have a lot of fun with this, and I'm filing it mentally in the steampunk campaign box."
==References==
*Pyramid 122: All Good Things; 26 December 2018; RogerBW's Blog
*Pyramid 3/122: All Good Things
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