Earthsea seems pretty chill. Especially Ged.
Not something from an anime because by season 4, there’s like a dozen people that can destroy a small town with one move. By season 8, they’re doing planets.
A quick reminder that Muten Roshi lived through the entirety of Dragon Ball (bar the couple times literally everyone in the planet died, temporarily)
I appreciate the bracketed comment and double down on my original statement lol
But at the same time, if you train very hard you’ll be able to do that too. That’s how it usually goes for characters without magical abilities.
Pokemon sounds pretty nice, they even have free healthcare in the american stand-in
Only for pets, not for humans
Ash Ketchum gets bankrupted paying for his mother’s hospital bills. The End.
Does that count as a magical world? There’s some sci-fi technology in it and the Pokémon seem to be able to manipulate some forces a bit mysteriously but they seem more like exaggerrated fantasy versions of real life animals. Seems like magic usually involves a bit more explicit reference to “magic” which is usually a singular force responsible for many feats very strongly linked to will of individuals.
Everything goes dark. You open your eyes. You are standing on a bridge. A warm salty breeze is in the air. Birds fly over. A fish splashes in the water. You could go anywhere, do anything, a whole new world is open to you. But you stay put for now and enjoy this peaceful bridge.
A child runs by. She avoids making eye contact and runs behind you. Then another, and another. “Kids these days”, you think, “always in a hurry.” Another child approaches, before he can slip by, you turn, and make eye contact. It’s on!
You each bring out your Pokémon and oh god, oh god, oh god, it’s god. The unfathomable, immortal deity who shaped the entire world, and it is taking orders from a child! and you have… a magikarp.
Before you can even speak, a blast of energy strikes your fish, killing it instantly. You are knocked back, stunned. The child frisks your pockets and takes your wallet. Everything goes dark. You open your eyes. You are standing on a bridge. A warm salty breeze is in the air…
I Have No Meowth, and I Must Scream
Wheel of Time during the age of legends.
Lord of the Rings, but fuck Gondor… I’ll be chilling in the Shire living like fucking king.
Same, but I’d probably go with Bree. I’m a bit tall for the Shire. Also, Bree seems a little more lively and they have a thing called ‘pints.’
Live in the Shire, start up a pub called “Giant Beers” which serves pints, be beloved by the Shirefolk and live in pastoral luxury
And fuck as many midgets as your heart desires.
They do pints?? I’m getting one.
Roshar. With all the spren and fabrials, I could still have a decent time.
Really? I feel like Scadrial is the better choice here. Though I have finished the Lost Metal yet, so something crazy may happen at the end that makes me reconsider this lol.
I’m an expert on one-armed Herdazian jokes. ‘Lopen,’ my mother always says, ‘you must learn these to laugh before others do. Then you steal the laughter from them, and have it all for yourself.’ She is a very wise woman.
Interesting choice. As much as I love the setting, I couldn’t see myself living in a place that has hurricanes on a weekly basis.
Besides continuous war and blatant racism/classism in every aspect of every society, most of them with either fully blown feudalism and slavery or a untouchable aristocracy :D
Spren are cool though…
PS nice username!
Don’t even need magic… just non-brown eyes.
Harry Potter. I’d be a normal muggle, blissfully ignorant of all the drama going on :)
But you’d be living in England and probably get stabbed by some chav’s unregistered butter knife
The rest of the world exists in hp, not just the UK.
If you live in the magical world in Harry Potter, wouldn’t that make you a squib?
So nothing changes?
Not at all! The entire Harry Potter franchise wouldn’t exist!
Exactly. That’s the entire point lol
Does Star Trek count as magical?
I think it’s just sci fi
But there’s Q, the traveller, Wesley, that old guy who wiped out an entire species with a thought… Pretty magical stuff there…
You may be more familiar with it than me.
Well then, I’d say this is a good excuse to familiarize yourself with it and tell me for sure.
I’ll leave it to your best judgement.
My best judgment is that you should go and binge watch DS9 because that show is amazing.
Any sufficiently advanced technology would appear as magic to the primitive. This is a theme repeated frequently in the show. 
The life forms you mentioned are simply more advanced than humanity can comprehend, they are not magical. 
The Q are pretty fucking magical, to be honest. DeLancie’s Q even suggests that all of their powers come from the mind, not from technology.
Wow, I had completely forgotten about the Wesley Traveler thing.
“A sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
Does that apply to any universe or just Star Trek?
Any universe. I recall reading a fun fantasy book that played with this idea under the premise of a guy who discovered he was in a simulation and hacked admin access, decided to go back into Arthurian medieval times to be a wizard with his new tech powers, and ended up there with a number of other sysadmins who had the same idea.
It wasn’t the best written book, but the concept was definitely novel.
What’s the name of this book?
Off to Be the Wizard by Scott Meyer, part of his “Magic 2.0” series
Thanks!
I’d aim for one of the rural areas in Discworld.
Relatively calm life, as long as you keep the local witch on your side.
Just stay on the good side of the local witch.
As long as no sourcerer drops by :)
I prefer sweetcerers
Idk, maybe Xanth would be better than Discworld. Slightly less likely to die in Xanth, and most decent guys end up with a beautiful wife.
And if you ever get stuck you can always take a stroll down the Runthis Bayou and everyone you meet along the way will give you some ideas for what to do with yourself.
I’d have spend a year or two wildin’ out in Ankh-Morpork.
I’d go to uberwald
That’s just Twilight with another faction, much higher body count, and way too much Europe
Excluding wods with magic in a contemporary or utopian setting, maybe some DnD world? You don’t need to have magic abilities to use magic items and plenty of settings are reasonably advanced.
You don’t have to exclude worlds with magic in a utopian or contemporary setting, what examples do you have?
Kiki’s Delivery Service?
Well Harry potter has already been mentioned as a contemporary example. Can’t think of any utopian examples tbh, reckon they are hard to write good stories for. But since these sort of worlds works be obvious picks I figured I’d post the next next thing.
Magic is just unexplained science
Princess Bubblegum?
What counts as “magic”, exactly? E.g. the world of BLEACH has 3 wholy distinct sources of supernatural power, only one of which looks like traditional, wizards & witches magic. Is vampirism magic? What about superstrength in Norse mythology?
I think this comment did a good job of explaining it
Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magicka Obscura
I’d get to laugh at every single wizard trying to board a train without it blowing up due to magic fucking up technology before I get screwed over by one of the soulless, greedy, vapid, mouth-breathing creatures known as gnomes.
I cannot understand why there’s no modern sequel in the works. A well loved classic RPG with steam punk elements and union themes seems like a no-brainer in the current environment.
And the all string soundtrack was a perfect choice.
Ooo, if you aren’t magical when you get there. There is an infinite number of things that will make you. But more importantly I want to live in a place that silly.
