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I want to play in this Medieval Fantasy universe where economics make sense like in the Dungeonomics series of blog post on the Critical Hits website.

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silverwizard
silverwizard  
Come to Shadowrun where a dragon just bought a corporation and uses that to handle most problems
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
Cyberpunk economics are supposed to make sense by default!
silverwizard
silverwizard  
You assume that "can't afford food, but can afford to replace all my muscles with titanium wire" makes sense I guess?
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
This is too micro, I'm talking about the evocation of the genre. Medieval Fantasy doesn't have the innate sense of money Cyberpunk has with the simple mention of corporations.
silverwizard
silverwizard  
Sure, that's definitely the case. One of the major assumptions of medieval fantasy is that the assumptions contained in myth are true (and the mystical parts expanded), whereas if they were, then the world would be different than the mythical world. There is an inherit tension of the genre, where regular healing *must* be hard and economics must be broken - and yet.
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
Yep, and I'd love to explore that tension deeper than surface level.
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
Ah, yes, Shadowrun where runner teams have to be the same gender (look at the chosen illustrations) https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Professions
silverwizard
silverwizard  
That's surprising. I find the gender rep in Shadowrun to be *fine* (not *good* but perhaps "Better than you'd expect from an 80s game"). But it's surprising that all of them present as awomen.
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
It wasn't surprising at all to me, the material may be gender-agnostic, but I expect the fans and especially online wiki contributors to be mostly men.
silverwizard
silverwizard  
I know at least three of those images off the top of my head - and they are also: From the Video Game, or Popular and Easily Available Online
Hypolite Petovan
Hypolite Petovan  
Yep, I couldn't blame the Shadowrun authors when I found out one of the images was picked from a Deviantart account. Definitely a selection bias for boobs.
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