Brandon Sanderson tickles that itch for me. His Mistborn series is really fun and has some rudimentary magitech without really spoiling anything - all of the magic works in specific ways but how people interact with it changes over time as people learn new (mostly martial) techniques. His Stormlight series has a system of magical doodads that ultimately evolves into full-on magitech, in addition to the kind of magic ninja stuff of Mistborn. Oh also magic mechsuits.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 3 points 7 months ago

Thanks, I'll try to remember to check it out!

[–] bort@sopuli.xyz 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

magic mechsuits

you mean shardplate?

[–] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah doesn't it augment your strength a little or something?

[–] bort@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

yes, sure. But I would have counted those as "regular magic".

[–] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago

Oh yeah sure those are magical artifacts like the little doodads but later in the series they start using the doodads in innovative ways

[–] 5765313496@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

I agree 99%. I just wouldn't describe the Mistborn series as fun. (I'd say the first first 3 Mistborn books are among his more depressing books. I still recommend them because they are great in other ways.)