No that wasn't my point at all you completely missed the point.
My entire point is that often settings will include fantasy creatures from their own past, except their scale will be that where they can take on modern day weaponry without any indication of how the people of the past were even capable of defending themselves (which they were).
But fine, I am annoyed enough to do the blow by blow... let me break down your post!
". Mythological creatures gain additional powers when placed in modern settings. (E.g. Shadowrun dragons are demigods)
2. Mythological creatures already had those powers in the past. (E.g. Shadowrun dragons were demigods)"
Ok nothing wrong here so far. 1 and 2 do not contradict eachother. The dragon in the future is just as powerful as the dragon in the past.
"The mythology is unrealistic because it claims that people in the past were able to defeat these creatures without modern weapons"
Right still makes sense. Where are these contradictions.
" People in the setting believe that the myths are unreliablecitation needed because of my argument, but the mythology states that they were"
Right nothing contradictory as well.
"The powers ascribed to these mythological creatures in the modern setting are unrealistically great"
Yep if you accept point 1, 2, and 3 then this point still holds.
"Gibberish"
Yeah at this point Flying Dice you started making things up.
"That aside, the biggest guns are magical powers/aid, not mortal weapons. And arguably luck powers would be more effective against firearms than against melee weapons, not to mention the fact that a godlike being would probably be less likely to underestimate a modern military than a knight with a magic sword."
Not only is this arguable (given that the most powerful artifacts were unmagical in nature)... But they already stated out what the "Knight with a magic sword with maxed out luck" would be.
When you go to kill a god you don't bring rifles and tanks, you bring a god of your own. And possibly lots of magically enchanted shit
Also arguable. Many of the gods while having incredible power were closer to mortals then the crazy invincible ones.
As always I bring up the Norse gods.
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Just to make this clear...
We are in a setting where mythological creatures EXISTED, the myths are true, and no longer exist.
Then in the future the creatures are back.
The minotaur, a creature who was defeated in said mythology without anything special, suddenly is able to wade through the equivalent of anti-material fire without going down. The minotaur is so powerful in fact that it would have been impossible to take down within its own mythology making its defeat a gaping plot hole. Especially when there is no extra powers involved either.
That is my entire point. There is a tendency for settings where mythological creatures, that existed before, to be so powerful in the modern-future times that it makes their defeats all the more perplexing.
In Shadowrun we have dragons and they are so powerful that there is no way they could reasonably be defeated in the In universe mythologies. In Legend every monster gets a huge power up (and often... immense population spike) to the point where how the world existed was questionable.
It isn't a pattern, it is just that this situation always confuses me.
It is on par with those stories where a great evil was SOOOO powerful that it took the entire world's resources and talent, which was many times more powerful then the current timeline within the setting, just to seal it... Then later on this small group will manage to actually kill it without any hint that this evil is weaker (in fact it will usually be more powerful).