Wizards and Wiseguys

In this alternate history setting for D20 Modern, magic is introduced into the early 20th century and dramatically changes the flow of events for the rest of the century.

Magic Awakens

"Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed. "

~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

On June 30, 1908, near Tunguska, Siberia a mysterious explosion flattened hundreds of square miles of forest. Eyewitnesses alternately described a ball of flame falling from the sky or the sky opening up and pouring out fire. An orange glow in the sky was visible for days as far away as Western Europe. Although the cause is still unknown, the consequence was clear. Magic was reawakened. Traditional native cultures and occultists were the first to notice, but it soon became common knowledge.

The genie was out of the bottle - and nothing would be the same again...