What would warfare be like if witches and wizards (the kind that fly on brooms, cast spells, make potions, etc.) were real and integrated enough in their respective national and ethnic communities to enlist and fight in wars out of patriotic fervor?
>>64794426reading that text and seeing that image made my brain cells feel like they were turned off for a momentwhat compels you people to do this? pfas in the water? satan?
>>64794439>reading that text and seeing that image made my brain cells feel like they were turned off for a momentOP pretty clearly just wanted to post his thinly veiled fetish art>satan?Even Satan would be horrified at this.
>>64794426Isn't that what Youjo Senki is all about?
>>64794771Yeah and there they use battle wizards basically as attack helicopters
>>64794426In the film "the wizard of oz" the Wicked Witch of the West is able to, entirely remotely though a crystal ball, cause an effect that makes anyone within a large area fall asleep and never wake up until another witch breaks the enchantment.I want you to imagine for a moment the strategic implications of such an ability.
>>64794426Depends entirely on what kind of magic system we're working with. There's no clear answer until you give an exact work of fiction.
>>64797301Yeah are we Harry Potter, MtG, Elder Scrolls, DnD, or Fairly Oddparents? Is this wish your enemies balls explode magic, use an incantation to make their balls explode, use a wand to explode their balls, or the kind of lame ass magic that doesn't allow you to blow up someone's testicles?
>>64797281>not the Italian one full of rape and cannibalismThanks.https://youtu.be/-pDMm5b4YRI?si=qa9jtL_xfdDcTSZg
>>64794426They would quickly become the ruling class and genocide any non-magic users.
>>64797281In the Wizard of Oz book, the Poppy Field is a consistent hazard that you just need to be dragged out of to be cured.In the movie version, the witch gives a strange monologue about her spell, mixes something in a mortar near her crystal ball, then Dorothy finds herself surrounded by poppy flowers which cause her and the lion to immediately lose consciousness until Glinda uses magic to break the spell.
> Me imagining the fantasy gun industry > Dwarven Battle Rifles > never jam or break due to superior autistic dawrve attention to detail, metallurgy, and magical runes inlets. > can be passed down for generations and never jam for any blood relation > ancestors are smiling down on you with every trigger pull.> Elven Hunting Rifles > absolute works of art> Mithril steel barrels for superior accuracy > the finest quality wood and gold inlets > Elven scopes grant you elf eyes> Goblin home builds> known to explode catastrophicly> crude and built from unknown alloys> questionable build and machine quality > somehow work through sheer volume of fire> Ork soviet clones> like goblins but slightly better build quality > still crude> still known to explode catastrophicly> heavy and boxy> just fucking work regardless of conditions because Ork beliefs is strong.> might not work in you hands because you are not ork and a non-believer.> just use Dakka!> if that don't work use more DAKKA! > bring your friends, have them bring more DAKKA!> Halfling SBR SBS, compact handguns and SMG> completely cornered the market for compact easy to conceal and carry weapons > the durability of Dwarven steel and Elven craftsmanship mixed with human ingenuity > any dawven merchant or Elven lord worth there salt carries a Halfling compact PDW. > Also well know for small game shotguns and 22 cal's
probably for a highly specific and repetitive task like mine clearance or remote bombing
>>64797301>>64797509This is why I always bring up the Wicked Witch, because the way these threads usually go is some "Connecticut Yankee" Gate:Bitch inevitably starts saying that fantasy gets shot with a gun and anyone saying magic doesn't get killed by a gun is using some ultra obscure magic system no one's ever heard of. No one argues when you use the Wicked Witch as an example and while she's not exactly a smart villain she shows some powers that don't stop being impressive once you introduce them to a modern setting (teleportation and remote attack mainly).
>>64794426>>64798580This is the only anon that is remotely close. The existence of magic users capable of doing flashy Harry Potter style spells would've fundamentally altered human history in such a way that humanity would exist in a completely alien way to us. If these wizards existed since the beginning of time, they would very likely be worshiped as living gods by primitive humans and would rule over normies as magic aristocrats that would tightly control the spread of their magic lineage. Earth kingdoms would be similar to Dark Sun or the Goa'uld from Stargate, a collection of realms entirely based on the personal rule of whichever God-Wizard is stronger, and advanced science and industry would probably never arise
>>64794426Why is Kiki so fat?
>>64794426It'd involve a lot of remote-viewing and weather control. Just ground all your enemy's sea and air assets with constant storms and spy on all their top brass constantly.
>>64794426An entertaining curiosity when artillery, nukes and chemical weapons exist. Actually wait. They'd fulfill a similar role to the company level drone operator in that they can recon and call for fire, except magic is on the other side of the call. That or they'd be locked in the water treatment plant, energy plant or industrial incinerator. Imagine them going from medieval nobility with godlike powers to unionized utilities workers.
>>64800616The Dwarven stuff wouldn't work because half the time you'd get an autistic one that puts a dick on it that fucks your wife at night. No one use them and they'd get a shitty reputation because of it. Diplomacy would be more popular I guess.
>>64794426i'll ask you again, what did you think of the avatar pregnancy scene?
>>64794426Mania Flippinger (Bibi Blocksberg) once froze the entire earth, snowball earth style, because she was annoyed at something or other.Flying brooms would be the least of our worries.
>>64794426kys
>>64794426Uhhhhhh… what am I looking at here?
>>64804573And here's a Connecticut Yankee fag.
>>64804643Hiiiiiiiii, sorry I didn't answer you back in the Avatar thread, I only saw your post after the thread had already archived.I was more weirded out than anything else desu. I was thinking to myself>Did some pregnancy fetishist get ahold of the script and no one bothered to do a final review after he was done vandalizing it (based)?
>>64794426there's some interesting Harry Potter fanfiction that delves into thisbasically the big divergences are either>1) as above, so belowbased on the theory that wizard and muggle life is more intertwined than either admitsthe muggle battlefield becomes a proxy or the visible tip of a magical shadow war iceberg. this is more or less canon at least for WW2, as JK Rowling hinted that the Dumbledore-Grindelwald war was at the very least concurrent if not part of muggle WW2alternatively,>2) wizards won't have the same politics as muggleswhich is plausible because of how isolated wizard communities are, in SOME ways, from mugglesthe problem is mudbloods, but canonically they make up such a tiny proportion of the wizard population that it would be easy to basically ignore their problems or deal with them ad hochalfbloods are more numerous and more intertwined and they would be the real problem>>64797087>imaginedon't have to, the Protoss Mothership's Time Warp ability has ample examples of battlefield implementations>>64798580that is in fact the world of Harry Potterthe fight is fundamentally about the good wizards trying to stop the bad wizards from genociding the non-magics, but JKR really really dropped the ball on emphasising that>>64804311>spy on all their top brasstry mind controlthe smartest bit of magical warfare Harry Potter ever had was when the bad guys started trying to mind control bong ministers and the good guys pre-emptively bodyguarded the PM and tried to cure the controlled onemugglewank always forgets that it takes just one wizard to mind control an SSBN crew and salvo ICBMs at every nuclear power in the world simultaneously
>>64808369>mugglewank always forgets that it takes just one wizard to mind control an SSBN crew and salvo ICBMs at every nuclear power in the world simultaneouslyJK is not only a British Woman, but a particularly retarded British Woman, making her one of the least strategically proficient minds on the planet. No wizard would take control of a SSBN because they cant even figure out what Rubber Ducks are after earnest study, most of them don't even know what a gun IS, and moreover because successfully describing the inside of a modern submarine would be an impossible task for Rowling.
>>64808347>pregnancy fetishistYou mean a human without brain damage?
>>64808536>Rubber Ducksironically, that line was added by American movie scriptwriters, making them even less strategically proficient than a British woman, according to you>most of them don't even know what a gun ISthe same way most of us don't know what an atlatl is, or don't give a fuck about how to use a sling; it's irrelevant in an era of ARs / wands>and moreover because successfully describing the inside of a modern submarine would be an impossible task for Rowling.truethe bitch is good at writing schoolboy fantasy, not a military thrilleror romance
>>64808552At what point during a pregnancy does gunfire effect your baby I wonder. This bitch gonna wear a muff for her fat ass stomach?
I thought myself immune to the charms of MILFs until I caught myself looking past all the teenyboppers and YAs in their braless crop-tops at a svelte young mum pushing a pramthen I realised that there's truly nothing more sexually arousing than a reasonably fit bird willing to raise your childrenno less than the Bard of Avon knew this too.
>>64808542>You mean a human without brain damage?Fair point, but whoever was writing this script REALLY went out of their way to inject it every chance they got. In the opening scene of The Way of Water alone, there's like three different pregnant chicks.Normally I'd say it was Cameron, but this isn't really a repeating theme in any of this movie (the only other movie of his I can think of that has a pregnant woman at all in it is Sarah Connor at the very end of the original Terminator and even that was more obligatory than anything)>>64808552>women should be pregnant 90% of the time."Pregnant. Yes, thatis how all women should be all the time. As soon as they are able to breed they must either be pregnant, giving birth or trying to become pregnant, every moment of their lives until they run out of eggs. I'm a feminist."- Hayao Miyazaki 1969“The two most beautiful sights I have witnessed in my life are a full blown ship at sail and the round-bellied pregnant female.”-Benjamin Franklin, 1776
>>64797509>integrated enough in their respective national and ethnic communities to enlist and fight in wars out of patriotic fervorWell you can pretty much strike Harry Potter from the list right there seeing as one of the major themes of the entire series is that the Wizarding World has to remain hidden, lest the goy-errr I mean muggles start pogroming them again, and that children who bridge the two worlds Hermoine (born to a mixed marriage) and Harry (only discovered his wizard ancestry fairly late in his childhood) are bullied as outsiders.
>>64808548>ironically, that line was added by American movie scriptwriters, making them even less strategically proficient than a British woman, according to youIn your desperate, sad attempt to rush to this zinger point you've mixed up "British and women are subhuman, this is a fact we all know" with "here's a random example of Wizards being retarded".>>64808548>the same way most of us don't know what an atlatlYes what with spending your entire life surrounded by Atlatls and having significant proportions of your society grow up in caveman tribes.One hundred dog sized spiders with zero superpowers are considered a critical tactical advantage to Wizards in large scale combat. An individual wizard has the "tool kit" to topple the entire modern world order but the brain of an angry child.Sorry you're never going to talk this setting away from being infomercial-land where 99.9% of people are pants shitting retarded 99.9% of the time.
>>64809818>start pogroming them againthey don't give a damn because witch-hunts were never effective, they just decided to retire to their Olympian seclusion and squabble with each other rather than be arsed to run the world, which they would have to if they were out in the open>>64809955>you've mixed up "British and women are subhuman, this is a fact we all know" with "here's a random example of Wizards being retarded"in your rush to cover up your gaffe you forgot to make any sense at allI'll be the better man and let you try again>Yes what with spending your entire life surrounded by Atlatls and having significant proportions of your society grow up in caveman tribesyou'd be surprised what the teeming masses in Africa, India, and darkest China do to get bybut you'll never really learn their way of life because they're irrelevant to you, you never need to come into contact with them, and at best all you need to do is avoid them.that's wizard-muggle relations for the most part.
>>64810150>your rush to cover up your gaffeNigger, it's not my fault you're British and want to be a woman and so must leap to their defense.>you'd be surprised what the teeming masses in Africa, India, and darkest China do to get byA tacit admission from anon that he lives around indians, Chinamen, and blacks, and frequently interacts with them.
>>64800616Dwarven guns will never break because they're so overbuilt you'll never find one weighing less than 20lbs. Unfortunately they're all chambered for boutique calibers used exclusively by individual gunsmiths that only produce limited quantities to order. Elven rifles are handmade works of art, unfortunately so is the ammunition and calibers will be declared obsolete the moment anything with even the slightest increase in performance, no matter how marginal, comes along.
>>64798580i have a never properly explored idea of a fantasy world where magic is useful and powerful, but harmful to the users and their surroundings. in the way that every incantation leaves some free residual magic with effects kind of like gamma rays.so if you draw too much magic, you kill yourself. with a lesser dose you can give yourself cancer or make your offspring tainted and retarded. and no amount is completely safe.i wonder what the implications would be.
>>64810150wait, jeets don't have scythe? the fuck haven't they even invented scythes?
>>64810552Anyone that posits magic users immediately taking over the world by installing themselves as god-kings has an assumption of magic that is functionally identical to superpowers.
>>64810323>A tacit admission from anon thatin this case, I am the chimp expert and you're the moron wondering how jeet rubber ducks work(they don't cause jeets don't bathe)no man is an island, anon>>64810552>i have a never properly explored idea of a fantasy world where magic is useful and powerful, but harmful to the usersboth Dresden Files and Rivers Of London give this as the reason why wands and staffs are needed for more powerful magic; i.e. it increases output and reduces the immediate strain on users' brains which would otherwise turn to muchessentially acting as magic capacitors
>>64811593its a shame what happened to dresden files but eh you got more good books than bad. most of the books were self contained. hiatus hell is better than wow they fucked it up hard.
>>64811637>its a shame what happened to dresden filesBook 18 literally hit the stand last week, don't scare me man
>>64811908no, that's whatever fanfiction you were readingsounds pretty cool thoughJKR didn't mention nukes, she's a nogunz feminazi bitch
>>64794426>"Jiji... If nobody comes in, I'm gonna have to eat pancakes forever be fat... FAT... FAAAAAATTTTTT!!!">is the size the of a planet and yet as happy as a clamWhat did the artist mean by this?
>>64813596>implying they weren't
>>64794426Depends entirely on what they are actually capable of.>>64794805Tbf, attack helicopters that can also just get down there and room-clear the fuck out of you because you ain't stopping one with small arms.
>>64808548>it's irrelevant in an era of ARs / wandsExcept in this comparison, the "atlatl" is just straight up the MORE lethal weapon in most direct combat scenarios.And that's assuming a mildly competent wizard, which like a solid 90-95% of those observed very much aren't.
>>64813950>MORE lethal weapon in most direct combat scenarios.well there's the rub. wizards don't have to fight in direct combat scenarios. they already carry on their lives completely undisturbed by mind controlling the population to not know they exist. and all it takes, as I said, is 1 competent wizard to win the war.>which like a solid 90-95% of those observed very much aren't.yeah, and less than 0.4% of the American population is in the military, and how many of those are actually competent, and not LaTonya the cook and DeShawn the clerk?
>>64815578you could've just wiki'd it in the time it takes to solve the fucking captcha, cmonSleeping Beauty pricks her finger on a little thorn and remains sleeping for as long as the thorn is in her fingerthe prince finds Sleeping Beauty and fucks her while she's asleep (fratboys and fuccbois, this is rape, it is a crime and crime is for shitskins)she gives birth while still asleep, and her newborn babies seeking nourishment suck at her fingers, removing the thornSleeping Beauty wakes up, they are found by the prince, and she marries himhis mother is less than pleased, and wants to eat them, as she is secretly an ogreone day when the prince is away his mother orders the palace cook to cook themthe cook hides them and cooks lamb insteadthe ogre is not deceived / finds out and is about to throw them in the fireplace and eat them all for reals when the prince returnshis mother anheroes into the fire rather than face her sonbit hard to write the Disney soundtrack to that
>>64800616Wait a minute, you're telling me that this ISN'T already the work of wizard gunsmiths?
>>64808558I'll put her muff on my ears.
>>64809735>-Benjamin Franklin, 1776Didn't he send his son out into the thunderstorm with the kite, ribbon and key?
>>64794426*shreds your witch to pieces well before she gets within wand range*
>>64818266>shreds your witch to piecesthis is their last resort
>>64794426Well classically withches draw their power from Satan, pure evil. So I'm not really sure why you think this is a great idea or why they would want to do anythig that does not ultimately result in death and despair.
>>64794426I like flowers
>>64794426They get hard countered by our morally superior werewolf brigades.
>>64819630Wolf Brigade you say?
>>64794426>here's a magic potion that will give you endless energy bro
>>64797626>?si=qa9jtL_xfdDcTSZgthank you mossad
>>64819643>Promised a brutal dark action movie about armored soldiers blowing each other up>Instead it's 40 seconds of armored machine gunners shooting at disorganized gangs with zero weapons capable of injuring them surrounded by an hour of a glownigger doing physical therapy and dating a girl with BPD while dying of depression.
>>64818266>within wand rangeI bet you five dollars that before Harry Potter there were more examples of Witches cursing people through crystal balls and dreams than there were of witches using wands for literally anything.
>>64821995I mean, that's pretty brutal and dark if you think about it>can slaughter communists by the hundreds for hours on end without batting an eye>heartbroken from interacting with a BPD girl for ten minutes
>>64819625Based duck enjoyer
>>64822240that's like saying it's cope that the US hasn't crushed Venezuela already with a full-blown invasion, ackshually Venezuela drove the US off
>>64794426you'd probably see warfare remain fairly similar up until WW1, with wizards serving as artillery. then suddenly abraxas the destroyer is almost done chanting some sort of gibberish about the fires of avernus just as pvt. billy to put a clean hole through his third eye. though the war crime list would be far more interesting i think, mustard gas would seem like just a more chemical version of spells that already exist at that point so the geneva convention might look pretty fun.
>>64822812>t. Retard cursed through a crystal ball
>>64794426Basically, if medieval armies had A-10s.
>>64794426This has got to be one of the most brazenly sexualized images I've ever seen. Even straight-up porn is less on-the-nose than this.
>>64822812>>64823027You guys never want to consider the parts of magic that are not comparable to direct combat action. Diseases that seem to come from nowhere, ghosts choking people to death in the night, invisibility, madness, dream demons, possession, things that could be done to your generals, your leaders, things against which there is no reasonable defense besides "stronger magic".It's all fun and games talking about "shooting the wizard" until he, from a secret secure bunker, gives your entire senior government AIDS the next time they're all in the same room together.
>>64824859Call of Cthulhu had a spell that melted human eyeballs. Sorcerers in the modern Delta Green setting used it on targets while they are driving on freeways at high speeds.
>>64794426AA guns will have a field day.
>>64822196>can slaughter communists by the hundreds for hours on end without batting an eye>heartbroken from interacting with a BPD girl for ten minutesThat's just 4chan in general.
>>64794426Good end: warding spellsBad end: summoned cryptids, demons and worse that forces the survivors into a walled city that is under siege from abominations, and not just kaiju giants, but every size of horror including insects and grey goo magical nanomachines.
>>64800616>can be passed down for generations and never jam for any blood relationWe are already there, I have a 110 year old M1917 that is in perfect condition. It will easily survive my usage into the next generation.
>>64794426When did Kiki get fat?
>>64794426>here's your regimental adjutant bro
>>64794426What you get is Dominions 6
>>64825162I have heard of the men from the Spring Fields. Fine craftsmanship but made with utterly no magic at all. The machine is there magic. Fascinating people mankind.
>>64831484>Puts your entire government into permanent comas from a crystal ball you don't know the location ofLol, lmao Connecticut Yankee.
>>64831484that's a rather shortsighted take. it surely wouldn't look like nine guys with guns and one dude with a magic wand and a pointy hat. the magic would get integrated into the conventional doctrine (and change it). a wizard artilleryman mogs your muggle artilleryman and a wizard pilot with right spells in a Sukhoi still mogs your muggle pilot in an F22.the limited number of magic users would be a bottleneck for everyone and it would be interesting to see to what roles would different nations allocate their valuable wizards
>>64808552Based
>>64833999Okay but what if they're scrying the enemy from the safety of a bunker in your capital city, yknow, using THE most common witch power in all of fiction and folklore?
Let's assume that Wizards can't just be walking weapons of mass destruction or absurd reality benders or they'd already rule the world. Let's assume they're a rare breed and there's only 1 on every 10.000 thousand pop. A mid-sized industrial nation would have around 5000 to 10000 wizards.I believe we overlook the force multiplier they can be for normal troops - not by flying a slow broom into visual range but because of their use in the industry. Rather than a single Wizard on the frontline he could be making rifles of always hitting, potions of regrow fucking limbs and cast invisibility on scouting planes or imbue 1000kg bombs with amplification. A dozen would rearm and refit vehicles in minutes, a hundred could mend your navy after deployment in a few days instead of months. Transporting new barrels and shells to your artillery? Childs play with the mage supported logistics. How do we deal with ptsd ridden veterans? A spell of amnesia for the last year of trauma, good as new.
>>64794805>>64813894attack helicopters that can also go underwater or hitch a ride on a rocket and are as sturdy as a tank.
>>64836200Usually I just prefer to stick to specific examples so people can't complain about "making stuff up", and then rotate examples so that retards don't complain about cherrypicking.
>>64836200>cast invisibility on scouting planeslollmao even*laughs in infrared tracking*
>>64794439>this nigga doesn't like preggosgay
>>64836632I find it odd everyone assumes that magic that fucks the laws of physics to present a false image MUST NOT present a false image of heat.Regardless the witches would have been working with the military all through the development of infrared, they'd have decades to adjust a spell to spoof a heat sensor.
>>64836632Yea bro, the magic that can perfectly bend in every visible spectrum around a moving object totally couldnt do that to IR
>>64794426there's an anime with this exact plot. it's called junketsu no maria, and its really good!
>>64794426https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1r52N6gjl0A
>>64794426Don't mind me, just participating.
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>>64840123Last one from me.
>>64794426Gorilla warfare with literal wizards would be absolutely terrifying.IDK if anyone would even bother with regular warfare when the tiniest asymmetric guerrilla units can obliterate entire armies.
>>64836632This sperg would ruin a D&D game by arguing that infravision counters invisibility. It doesn't.
>>64840127>no night witchesThe artist did a good job, but there was a gimme literally right there for him.
>>64818266>Apparites behind you>nothing personal Ivan
>>64804587Based Oglaf enjoyer.
>>64848853>dolan wizardHorrifying. Rolling.
>>64794426Magic thread 's two blocks down>>64841870
>>64836200Are there any fantasy works like Harry Potter that even cover wizards/witches using their powers to do things like fix machinery?Every fantasy story I've read has them using their powers to replace machines rather than supplement them.
>>64855637I'm guessing it's a flagship returning to port under her own power, completely normal phenomenon
>>64794426Trenches would have been way more prevalent in medieval war and defensive magic would matter more than offensive because of examples like this >>64797087Cavalry would have a new role of mage hunting as they're the primary means of getting past enemy linesIf we're going full magic rather than just mages, then long ranged weapons become less effective, as it's unlikely any would have massed stopping power like they do in our world, as you'd need to defeat mana protection levels in armor before injuring someoneThe main differences that's obvious with mages would be communication and night fighting, with mages being able to communicate instantly, and case see in the dark buffs, or even invisibility buffs for special operations, so battle strategy would probably evolve WAY faster than actual tech and gear used, you'd see modern warfare strategy and combined arms used with ballistas and chariots, for example>>64800616giga based>>64822812kek>>64842596because defensive magic would likely render small attacks pointless against massed armies, you're right though, imagine being the logistics guy just driving a truck
>>64855943If Witches canA) attack remotely at extreme rangeB) be blocked by other witchesit becomes a scenario where how fucked things are is inversely proportional to how common your casters are, because if you've only got enough of them for your leaders and high command the actual theater of war is going to be a huge clusterfuck.
>>64857226Well they wouldn't be the only thing that matters, magic is cumbersome in most media, wide area spells take ages days even to cast and are usually easily countered, with high end witches that can do insane things being rare due to their age, while common casters can easily cast wards etcI think it's more, any squad would require a mage of some kind to be effective, possibly two (combat support and warding) not including a medic who would defacto be a mage in such an environmentThey'd still be vulnerable to other troops
>>64857250The wicked witch did hers in like fifteen seconds.
>>64857250>magic is cumbersome in most media, wide area spells take ages days even to cast and are usually easily countered, with high end witches that can do insane things being rare due to their age, while common casters can easily cast wards etcObligatory pic
>>64859226What is that cursed AK?
>>64859226High Fantasy and Low Fantasy are terms that meant, and only ever meant "Does this take place in a totally fictional planet or on earth with fictional elements".Lord of the Rings is Low fantasy.Game of Thrones is High Fantasy.Stop using them as power levels, that's fucking gay. Every reddit pseud has spent the last ten years using them as "power levels" and it's infected the lexicon of normies.
>>64848853rollerino
>>64855644>Russian warship, go curse yourself
>>64794426Kiki?
>>64868218Women are for pregnancy and that is a good and happy thing. The saddest thing is a good girl never being pregnant many times.
>>64860498It's not about power level and you completely misunderstand their meaning to the point I'm hoping you accidentally switched your 2 examples.It's about the predominance & sophistication of the in-setting fantasy aspects (predominantly magic).Essentially the same as comparing >low-tech, early industrial eraThe common individual would still relate with medieval farmers, but having a tractor is still a game changer>high-tech, far future eraEverything in a person life is related to technology, they can't live without understanding & using it even if they wanted to avoid it.>Low fantasyMagic barely do anything, mystical creature/items are just magical version of the normal ones, their importance is limited you can ignore them.>High fantasyMagic easily rewrite reality, mystical creatures/items change geopolitics, even kids may need to know & use the magic in their everyday life.>Lord of the RingI hope you miss typied because it's almost the definition of HIGH fantasy, absolutely everything is influenced by magic, the world is even flat until the end of The Silmarilion.https://achivx.com/is-tolkien-high-fantasy-or-low-fantasy/>Game of ThronesAgain, this one is obviously low fantasy, it's medieval in almost every aspect except for the few rare magic users, occasional dragons.As for its use in >>64859226 (made more complicated by Magic versus Tech)It's just a logical conclusion between>magic world that's 90% medieval, easy to understand from a modern perspective, easy to notice what is non-medieval and to be prudent.>magic world that's 90% magic, hard to understand from a modern perspective, where you can be magically cursed by a damn kid.And while I'm on it>on earth with fictional elementsIf you do a setting in the contemporary era, it would become Urban fantasy, compatible with low-fantasy but typically distinct from stuff involving magitek.
>>64868481NAYRT and I considered replying the exact same thing you were writing, however anon's complaint was that people were MISusing high-low fantasy as power levels. he knows that it is wrong. you're preaching to the choir.
>>64868218Do you think young girls are supposed to remain that way forever?
>>64868505I understand why that could be misunderstood. But when I said, it was in relation to the pic >>64859226 which imply a power level, ...and in context (facing cursed AK holder) it's technically correct. A high-fantasy mage would have a more chance to magic things around, like make the gunner believe his AK is a snake and drop it.Also I still had to argue about LotR being high-fantasy.
>>64869471> A high-fantasy mage would have a more chance to magic things around, like make the gunner believe his AK is a snaketo me, that falls under power levels too, from a Doylist POV>Also I still had to argue about LotR being high-fantasyFair enough
>>64870875>to me, that falls under power levels too, from a Doylist POVWatson POV: given the nature of magic there's nothing strictly enforcing that a Low Fantasy cannot beat gun wielding opponents.It's less a question of powerlevel, and more of compatibilities.>portal open>gun equipped invaders try to take over this obviously medieval area>local mages and witches take weeks to gather ingredients and perform magic spell, would be ignored as fool even if they weren't hidding in the populace>curse everyone who pass through the portal into becoming blind>the spell is weak, low fantasy, can be removed or protected against, but invaders wouldn't know how and piss themselvesAlso the elephant in the room is explaining such portal without ruining the multiverse.
>>64868481High fantasy means >This takes place on a planet that is explicitly not earthLow fantasy means>This takes place on a planet that is explicitly earthThat's it, that's all they mean. You're a fucking pseud and a half.
>>64869471>Also I still had to argue about LotR being high-fantasy.Yes, Arda is earth in the ancient past explicitly. Tolkien was extremely clear, even stating point blank it was earth despite any geographic differences that could be resolved by God or what have you.Lord of the Rings is Low fantasy.Low fantasy just means earth.
>>64871246>the slop generator condescends on a matter of taste
>>64871256I will give the benefit of the doubt that you're telling the truth, but you're still posting AI slop while complaining about hand-drawn slop. Unless you're earnestly trying to find the artist of OP, you're in a pot and kettle situation.
>>64810567Jeets are a mystery. They do manual harvesting but they dont have the same tools that western farmers used as late as 100 years ago. They have significantly more smart phones then toilets etc.
>>64871258>>64871256>>64871251Everyone who says Slop unironically has a melted fucking brain.
>>64871282Are you implying that regurgitating the same, stale idea over and again is a sign of cognitive decline?Don't answer that. Just generate a response.
>>64871291No, I'm stating something specific about an actual braindead niggerized way of speaking. If you ended every sentence with "poopoopeepee" and I called you gay and retarded, it wouldn't be because "you're not being original".
>>64871301Maybe you should have run the prompt a few more times.
>>64871239define>earthand>not earth?you'll realise that the operational definitions of high fantasy means more magic or that magic has higher capabilities / power, and vice versa for low fantasy
>>64871239Your take is grossly reductive, subtlety matters smartass, else you end up making the same mistake as the next anon did.Even the wikipedia article explain the nuances.>>64871242https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolkien%27s_impact_on_fantasy>Lord of the Ring>That novel, published in 1954–1955, enormously influenced fantasy writing, establishing in particular the form of high or epic fantasy,By your "logic" so long as a fiction end with "then magic turn it into Earth" it would default as "Low-fantasy" and actually you'd not have "low fantasy" either because adding any magic make this "Earth" of yours an alternate world.You don't have this problem with the real definition or my take.There's no easy delimitation, we have to create new subgenre all the time. Just take "Urban fantasy", it can also be either Low or High fantasy.
>>64872136High Fantasy and Low fantasy are niche classifications for a background setting, YES, not genre. That's it. I don't give a shit how you or other fags have expanded the definition to cover feelings and aesthetics. It's a technical term with an exact yes/no nature.
>>64873327>background setting, YES, not genrewrong
>>64794426Witches are real =D
>>64794426>faggot in a dress starts chanting while waving his hands around>immediately shoot him in the head
>>64794426Miyazaki ofcourse expanded on this with Howls Moving Castle, my personal favorite
>>64818812wildly underrated
>>64836254With the logistical footprint of a regular light infantryman.
>>64873713
>be me>in a world where magic is real>conjure up microportals to the surface of the sun>conjure up microportals to magnetars>conjure up tiny pieces of supernova>conjure up tiny pieces of neutron star inside peoples headsThere would be no war.
>>64860498>Lord of the Rings is Low fantasy.Middle Earth doesn't really seem to have that much in common with actual Earth. I get that LOTR is roughly equivalent to the High Middle Ages in Europe but it's clearly not using actual European geography or cultures (ex. basically every human in the films speaks English when Europe alone has dozens of distinct languages and thousands of regional dialects).
>>64873327Genre can be made subgenre of one another, you just lack imagination and knowledge.>It's a technical term with an exact yes/no nature.It's not and we know you can't defend your point, the childish Earth/notEarth take was nonsensical.
>>64873713>everyone but Nausicaa wearing gas masks
>>64875341The Silmarillion describe the world of LOTR as literally flat until it was made round for the second age.Its geography is the result of the Valar (gods under the true god) fighting over what they had created.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Arda#Years_of_the_lampsThen eventually that dead world abandoned by the gods and elves became what we call Earth "6 or 7th age".Tolkien really do like writing backstory for every tree branch.
1 witch = 1 CAS platformThey will be allocated based on mission priorities and lots of conventional units will beg for their presence.Also they will need a JTAC equivalent on the ground to ensure the witch is used as effectively as possible when she does her fly by/teleportation for the short amount of time she can remain on station.
Choose wisely /k/
>>64794426Isn't there a more internationalist version of this in some anime, something something Witches>>64794771Close enough>>64794439Infinitely better than the usual slide thread, Chinkshill thread and seething vatnik threads.
>>64836200>I believe we overlook the force multiplier they can be for normal troops - not by flying a slow broom into visual range but because of their use in the industry.That's nice and all, but if you were a 1 in 10.000 wizard, would you want to be a glorified tank mechanic, or would you want to blow shit up on the frontlines?
>>64822812>kot in ww1I'll raise you one.
>>64877404Arcane
>>64794426>God is on the side with the most pregnant witches-Napoleon after PLAPping his 66th witch
This is just Strike Witches.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike_Witches
>>64837180Dis nigga gets it.
>>64883962Tomboy for pregnancy
is there anything hotter than a pregnant tomboy sucking your dick?
>>64875713Flat Earthers: The Earth is flatTolkien: The Earth WAS flat
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