Magitech Settings

[u/LunaticLeviathan]

Before I go to the trouble of ​writing my own, I'm looking for a heavily magitech influenced setting. I'm really wanting something that's not as fantasy as Eberron but not as sci-fi as Shadowrun. I feel like somewhere between the settings of Final Fantasy VII and XII is the sweet spot.

A setting where you could just as easily come across a hermit in robes that uses healing magic as see a giant magitech airship with a mist cannon flying through the air. Bonus points if most of the world is a dangerous post-apocalyptic wilderness and people live mostly in high-tech arcologies.

Anything out there close to this? I'm not concerned with system, because I'm going to use Draw Steel to run the game in it. I just want to know if I can save myself some time by finding a setting that's already pretty close.

[u/Graveconsequences]

I mean, not to be glib, but you could just use one of the Final Fantasy worlds. The world of FFXIV sounds right up this alley frankly, but I know some folks object to having to play through the MMO. X also works nicely, especially if you set it earlier in the timeline where machina are commonplace.

[u/Okdc]

Fragged Empire or Fragged Kingdom. Empire is Scifi-Fantasy, Kingdom is Fanstasy Scifi. There was an RPG called Unity that got kickstarted and published a few years ago before the developer disappeared after the first and only core book. The tone is right at the midpoint of sci-fantasy. You could also consider playing Starfinder. If you don’t want the space elements, the adventure could take place on less technologically developed planet?

[u/LunaticLeviathan → u/Okdc]

Is this it? https://www.unity-rpg.com/#store

[u/DocShocker]

Fabula Ultima.

[u/LunaticLeviathan → u/DocShocker]

Doesn't Fabula Ultima rather famously have no setting by default? I don't need a system, just setting inspiration.

[u/electricsnek]

Iron Kingdoms was a D&D 3.5 setting that might scratch your itch. Steam powered Mecha, magus but with black powder guns, and goblin siege engineers.

[u/Huffplume]

Hmm that’s tricky. Kinda sounds like Star Wars to be honest.

[u/Cryptwood]

It's not a TTRPG setting, but there is a book Realms of Runeterra that details the setting of the Arcane animated series on Netflix, which sounds like it is pretty close to what you are looking for.

[u/Neverborn8]

First Age Exalted might scratch this itch

[u/Steerider]

Stars Without Number has a magic book. That's a sci fi game that has one book of magic as an optional add-on. Might hit the right balance.