Hearing about some game called Eclipse Space made me wonder about Transhuman Space and ultimately whether Transhuman Fantasy, in some form, would be possible.
What would you call cloning, for example?
At least in the LOTR movies, orcs are kind of fantasy clones.
Fantasy is Transhuman already. It's gone beyond that, too, to Transbeing. Undead, high men (Of various sorts), godly ascension, illithid, soul storage, hundreds of half-whatevers, intelligent items...
racial intermingling isn't particularly 'transhuman' is it? After all it' been happening in the real world since time immemorial.
Are undead transhuman?
Only within the same species or rare, sterile cross-breeds in the real world. Human/Dragon crosses, for example, are very much trans-human and trans-dragon.
They're very arguably another species, even multiple separate species, depending.
Quote from: Ghost Whistler;272607Are undead transhuman?
Sure. They're meatbot shells.
Some while back I was reading a thread -- probably over on tBP, maybe hereabouts -- where someone was sussing out all the background for making a transhumanist, super-science background for a fantasy campaign. It all came together beautifully. Demihuman races were genetically modified human stock, monsters were bioroid servants/soldiers/toys, spell-casting was powered by a great trans-dimensional engine, etc. All this in a long-lost, almost-forgotten past. But, ultimately, none of it mattered, because the
practical effect was that none of the characters would either know or understand any of this, so it didn't matter if the players knew or understood it, either.
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